Topic: South Korea
North Korea has started digging tunnels at its nuclear test site in apparent preparation for a third atomic detonation, a report said on Sunday.The North started building at least two new tunnels at its Punggye-ri facility in northeastern North Hamgyong province for ...
North Korea has started digging tunnels at its nuclear test site in apparent preparation for a third atomic detonation, a report said Sunday.The North started building at least two new tunnels at the Musudan-ri Launch Facility at Punggye-ri for a possible underground ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - China does not back efforts by Washington and Seoul to punish North Korea at the United Nations for its uranium enrichment programme and wants six-party talks to deal with the issue, a top South Korean envoy said on Saturday.International ...
South Korea and the United States are to expand a joint military drill aimed at finding and destroying North Korean weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a news report said Friday.The training, which simulates the detection and disposal of the North's chemical, biological, ...
North Korea called again Friday for dialogue with South Korea to lessen what it described as the danger of war, as a Russian envoy indicated progress in efforts to restart separate nuclear negotiations.The North proposed talks between legislators from North and South ...
South Korea called Wednesday for preliminary military talks with North Korea next month, in what would be their first dialogue since the North's deadly shelling of a border island two months ago.Visiting US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg strongly backed the ...
South Korea made a fresh call Tuesday for the United Nations Security Council to debate North Korea's uranium enrichment programme, which according to experts could produce more nuclear weapons.The issue of UN referral "will be discussed intensively" when US Deputy Secretary of ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will soon propose holding talks with the North that could pave the way for a resumption of six-party negotiations aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions in return for aid, an official said on Monday.The meeting, which would ...
South Korea on Thursday accepted North Korea's offer of high-level military talks to ease months of tension, but said Pyongyang must admit responsibility for two deadly border attacks.The offer came in a message from defence minister Kim Yong-Chun to his counterpart in ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea agreed on Thursday to hold high-level military talks with rival North Korea, marking a major breakthrough in a crisis on the Korean peninsula and heightening the prospect of renewed aid-for-disarmament talks.A defense ministry spokesman in Seoul said ...