President Moon Jae-in will hold a press conference this week to address his administration's policy objectives for the new year, South Korea's presidential office said Sunday.The first press conference by the president in 2019 will start at 10 a.m. Thursday, according to Cheong Wa Dae.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he received a "great letter" from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and expects the two will have another meeting soon.Kim said in his New Year's address Tuesday that he is ready for a second meeting with Trump at any time and is committed to "com
South Korean companies that had operated factories in the now-shuttered industrial complex in North Korea's border city of Kaesong on Tuesday hailed the North Korean leader's willingness to reopen the factory park. In his televised New Year speech early on Tuesday, North Korea
The United States is willing to lift sanctions on North Korea after the country dismantles its nuclear weapons program, the State Department said on Dec. 18, 2018.North Korea has increasingly protested the sanctions, warning that they could return U.S.-North Korea relations to the tense "exchanges
The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae thinks it would be difficult for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to visit Seoul this year, a presidential official said on Dec. 12, 2018.There was speculation that the North's leader might make his first trip to Seoul before the end of this year, with Cheong
The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on three North Korean officials, including a top aide to leader Kim Jong-un, in response to their alleged human rights abuses and censorship.Choe Ryong-hae, who is seen as the No. 2 official in the regime, was designated for being an official of the ruli
South Korea and the United States will launch a working group this week to aid coordination in their efforts to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons program, a top South Korean official said on Nov. 19, 2018.Lee Do-hoon, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and secur
North Korea has operated at least 13 undeclared missile sites across the nation, a potential blow to U.S. President Donald Trump's assertion that his strategy on Pyongyang has effectively eliminated its military threats, a new study showed on Nov. 12, 2018.In a report, Beyond Parallel, a group a
South Korea has found two additional sets of Korean War remains during its demining and road construction work in a notorious battle site inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Seoul's defense ministry said on Nov. 6, 2018. The ministry's Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification retrieved hu
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held talks with Cuba's president at his Pyongyang office on ways to strengthen cooperation between the two sides, the North's state news agency reported on Nov. 6, 2018.Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez arrived in the North Korean capital on a state visit on No
The two Koreas and the U.S.-led U.N Command (UNC) will wrap up the process of disarming the Joint Security Area in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Oct. 25, 2018, officials said. They will complete the work of withdrawing military posts, troops and firearms from the JSA in the buffer zone separating
Chairman Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Preside Vladimir Putin of the Russian Fedeation have swaped messages with each other to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations. This was reported by the state media of North Korea on Oct. 12, 2018.The North's offic
By COO Kim Hyung-dae, chief editorial writerExhibition Management Manager Chung Myung-hee at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul said, “We have the Inter-Korean Historical-Culutural Heritage Exhibition scheduled to start in October this year for a 3-month run at the National Museum of Korea in Yon
President Moon Jae-in of Korea left for the United States on Sept. 23, 2018 for a summit meeting with President Donald Trump, where he will likely seek to broker a second U.S.-N. Korea summit. Moon's trip comes in the wake of his visit last week to Pyongyang where he held his third summit with C
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced hope Friday for a second summit between the U.S. and North Korea "before too long," but added there was still work to do.Both sides have floated the possibility of a second meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to
North Korea's state media on Friday hailed the visit to Mount Paekdu by the leaders of the two Koreas as a "historic" event in an era of enhanced cross-border cooperation.President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un climbed the peninsula's highest mountain Thursday, the last d
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is ready to accelerate denuclearization of his country in exchange for security guarantees from the United States and wants to hold a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump at an early date, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday. Moon
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un embarked on a rare trip Thursday to Mount Paekdu in an event designed to enhance their personal ties and also highlight the success of their summit in Pyongyang.The leaders left Pyongyang's Sunan International Airport shortly
North Korea's state media reported Wednesday on the third inter-Korean summit under way in Pyongyang, saying that the leaders of the two Koreas "highly appreciated" the current state of cross-border relations during their talks. South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited Pyongya
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will chair a United Nations Security Council meeting next week to address efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Tuesday. Pompeo plans to chair the ministerial meeting in New York on Sept. 27 after