Topic: South Korea
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The US special envoy on North Korea Stephen Bosworth will visit South Korea next week to coordinate policy towards nuclear-armed Pyongyang, diplomatic sources said Friday.Bosworth will arrive Monday and meet Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan, the South's chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-Lac and ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has dismissed as "ridiculous" South Korea's hosting of an international nuclear summit next year, barely two days after the North's leader Kim Jong-il was conditionally invited to join 50 world leaders at the event in Seoul.South Korean ...
A pro-Pyongyang newspaper pressed Seoul Wednesday to accept an offer from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to hold a summit with South Korea's leader.Ex-US president Jimmy Carter, who visited the communist state late last month, said he received a "personal" written message ...
Former US president Jimmy Carter met North Korea's de facto head of state during his peace mission to Pyongyang on Wednesday and said in a blog posting that the North seeks better ties with Washington.Carter and three other retired world leaders from ...
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