Topic: North Korea

US 'encouraged' by Korea nuclear talks

The United States said Saturday it was "encouraged" by surprise talks between North and South Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, but remained cool on resuming disarmament talks.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told regional foreign ministers at an Asian security forum in ...

North and South Korea nuclear envoys meet at Asian meeting

SEOUL (Reuters) - The top nuclear envoys of South and North Korea met Friday on the sidelines of an Asian meeting in Bali, Yonhap news agency said, in the first such contact in more 2- years. The meeting comes in the wake ...

N. Korea 'bribed Pakistan for nuclear secrets'

The architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims North Korea paid bribes to senior Pakistani military officials in return for nuclear secrets in the 1990s, the Washington Post said Wednesday.The Post said documents released by nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan purportedly show ...
The architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims North Korea paid bribes to senior Pakistani military officials in return for nuclear secrets in the 1990s, the Washington Post said.The Post said documents released by nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan purportedly show him ...

Obama taps Korean American as Seoul envoy

President Barack Obama on Friday named veteran Asia troubleshooter Sung Kim to be the ambassador to South Korea, the first Korean American to represent the United States in Seoul.Kim is now the special envoy to six-nation denuclearization talks with North Korea, but ...

U.S., South Korea to keep pressure on Pyongyang

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea on Friday signaled they would not ease pressure on North Korea's government, saying Pyongyang must show it had changed its ways before resumption of stalled nuclear talks could take place."While we remain open ...
North Korea is increasingly likely to launch a "surprise provocation" against South Korea following a series of strongly worded threats, Seoul's defence minister said Monday."The possibility of a surprise provocation with various means and methods is steadily increasing while (the North is) ...
South Korea and China will this week discuss ways to persuade North Korea to return to dialogue, the South's nuclear envoy said Wednesday, after Pyongyang publicly burnt its bridges with Seoul.Wi Sung-Lac said he would meet his Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei on ...
North Korea said on Wednesday it had rejected a South Korean proposal to hold a series of three summits to ease tensions on the peninsula.The North's powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) said the South, at a secret meeting in May, had proposed ...

North Korea to free U.S. citizen held for six months

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. rights envoy Robert King on Friday won the release of an American citizen detained in North Korea on unspecified charges for the past six months, as he wrapped up a visit to the secretive state to assess its ...