A high-ranking North Korean official left Beijing for New York on Wednesday apparently to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, took Air China flight CA981, according to diplomatic sources here.

Ahead of a potential summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, their negotiators are trying to hash out details over an array of hitherto intractable issues, including denuclearization methods, timelines and security assurances for the isolated regime.A flurry of working-level talks over the past

A decade after crossing the inter-Korean land border with box-loaded documents on North Korea's nuclear program, Amb. Sung Kim is back in talks with North Korea.The State Department's top Korea expert is meeting with North Korean officials to prepare for an unprecedented summit between Pyong

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reaffirmed his willingness to denuclearize and hold a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Sunday."Chairman Kim Jong-un has once again clearly expressed his commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peni

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Saturday U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are likely to meet soon."President Moon Jae-in and State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un met twice and the North Korea-U.S. summit is also likely to take place soon," the prime minister

South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a surprise second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said, in an apparent move to convince Kim to hold his scheduled summit with U.S. President Donald Trump."President Moon Jae-in held a second summ

Candidate registration for next month's local elections in South Korea has closed, with the competition ratio standing slightly higher than a record low ratio registered years earlier, the nation's election watchdog said Saturday.For the June 13 elections, voters will cast ballots to pick 17

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has voiced his "fixed will" on talks with U.S. President Donald Trump during his latest summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Pyongyang's state media said Sunday.During their surprise summit on Saturday, the leaders of the two Koreas also agreed to mee

Seoul will keep working to create a mood for dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said during a joint press conference with Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz on Friday.Calling the scrapping of the June 12 summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Kore

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday his planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could still take place June 12, after cancelling the summit a day earlier."We're going to see what happens. We're talking to them right now. It could even be the 12th," Trump told reporters bef

A top North Korean official said Friday his country is still willing to talk with the U.S., responding to President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to pull out of his planned summit with the North's leader.Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan issued a statement carried by the North's state-

North Korea will reconsider the planned summit with the United States if Washington sticks to "unlawful and outrageous acts," its vice foreign minister said Thursday.In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, Choe Son-hui, a North Korean vice foreign minister, said that whether the

Eight South Korean journalists arrived in North Korea on Wednesday by government plane to cover the dismantlement of its nuclear test facilities expected later this week.The reporters and television crews joined the other journalists from the United States, China, Russia and Britain in Wonsan, as th

North Korea declined to accept the list of South Korean journalists chosen to cover the dismantling of its nuclear test site Tuesday, making it technically hard for the South Korean media to join the event scheduled for this week."We tried to convey the list through the Panmunjom communication chan

North Korea has not accepted South Korea's proposed list of journalists chosen to cover a ceremony for the dismantlement of a nuclear test site planned for this week, the unification ministry said Monday.The ministry tried again on Monday to convey the list of the reporters selected to cover the

North Korea has not accepted South Korea's proposed list of journalists chosen to cover a ceremony for the dismantlement of a nuclear test site planned for this week, the unification ministry said Monday.The ministry has tried to convey the list of the reporters selected to cover the shutdown of

North Korea on Saturday called for the release of North Korean defectors that it claims have been lured and kidnapped by South Korea, offering a possible reason for its recent suspension of dialogue with Seoul.In a report by the country's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), an unidentifi

Two North Koreans crossed the tense western sea border into South Korea on a small boat earlier Saturday, officials have said, the latest in a string of defections by North Koreans in recent years.Previously, the government said the pair was comprised of one soldier and one civilian, but corrected t

North Korea said Friday the ruling party's powerful military commission has held a meeting to determine personnel reshuffle and organizational matters to beef up national defense both militarily and politically.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over the first enlarged meeting of the seven

Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with visiting North Korean ruling party officials and emphasized the importance of advancing a friendship "sealed in blood" between the two countries, the North's state-run media reported Thursday.The group led by Pak Thae-song, a member of the Political Bu