Topic: East Asia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two days of U.S.-North Korea talks opening on Monday in Geneva are aimed more at managing tensions on the tense Korean peninsula than resuming regional talks on ending the North's nuclear programs.U.S. officials and analysts were keeping expectations low ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea and the United States will hold a second round of talks in Geneva next week to discuss ways to restart regional talks on disabling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, South Korean media reported Monday.Yonhap news agency quoted ...
North Korea could conduct a third nuclear test or another missile launch before next year's US and South Korean presidential elections if disarmament talks fail, a senior Seoul official warned on Friday.The communist North abandoned six-party nuclear talks in April 2009 and ...
The United States and North Korea are likely to hold a second round of talks this month to try to revive international nuclear disarmament negotiations, a South Korean report said Sunday.The meeting may come after a summit between US President Barack Obama ...
A former diplomat in Pyongyang cast doubt Wednesday on North Korea's willingness to denuclearise, saying its officials believe Libya's regime would have survived had it kept its nuclear weapons.Diplomatic efforts are under way to revive six-nation talks on the North's nuclear disarmament. ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea and the United States are looking at holding a second round of dialogue early next month as part of renewed efforts to restart talks on disabling the North's nuclear weapons program, South Korean media reported on Thursday.Yonhap ...
The chief nuclear envoys for North and South Korea met in Beijing on Wednesday to try to revive international nuclear disarmament talks, with little hope of any early breakthroughs.The one-day meeting at a private members' club in the centre of the Chinese ...
Top North and South Korean envoys will meet in Beijing on Wednesday for a second round of talks aimed at restarting stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations, Seoul's foreign ministry said.The ministry gave no further details Monday of the meeting between the South's ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged regional powers on Monday to revive moribund nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, with its foreign minister Yang Jiechi defending Beijing as an honest broker seeking to defuse confrontation with Pyongyang.Yang made the call at a forum ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - It is one of the West's biggest nuclear proliferation nightmares -- that increasingly isolated Iran and North Korea might covertly trade know-how, material or technology that could be put to developing atomic bombs."Such a relationship would be logical and ...