Topic: East Asia

Optimism in check as U.S., North Korea set to talk

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 ...

North Korea and U.S. to meet in Geneva next week: report

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 ...

N.Korea could conduct third nuclear test: Seoul

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 ...

US, N. Korea 'may hold' nuclear talks this month

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. ...

North Korea and U.S. look to another round of talks: report

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 ...

Korean envoys hold nuclear talks in Beijing

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 ...

Two Koreas to hold nuclear talks Wednesday

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 ...

China urges new push for North Korea nuclear talks

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 ...

Analysis: West fears possible Iran-North Korea nuclear links

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 ...