South Korea on Tuesday proposed high-level talks with North Korea next week over its participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, in response to leader Kim Jong-un's reconciliatory New Year message.Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon proposed that the two Koreas meet next Tuesday at the tr

North Korea could send a delegation to the upcoming PyeongChang Olympics to be held in South Korea and is open to talks with Seoul over it, the North's leader said in his New Year's speech Monday.But Kim Jong-un also made it clear that his country will not give up its nuclear and missile pro

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is set to deliver his New Year's address Monday as the country's nuclear and missile programs are advancing at a fast clip amid deepening international sanctions.The North's ruler plans to issue his verbal message through the country's state television

Ousted former President Park Geun-hye unilaterally ordered the shutdown of an inter-Korean industrial complex last year without proper consultations or a legitimate process, a panel report showed Thursday.The report was unveiled by a nine-member committee of civilian experts that has been reviewing

North Korea is likely to explore the possibility of dialogue with the United States in 2018 as the communist state seeks to secure a status as a de facto possessor of nuclear weapons, the Ministry of Unification said Tuesday."North Korea may continue to advance its nuclear and missile capabilities

North Korea on Monday defended its push for space development as a "legitimate" exercise of its rights, sparking speculation that it may continue to stage missile provocations under the disguise of satellite launches.The Rodong Sinmin, the official newspaper of the North's ruling Workers'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for a fight to root out "non-socialist" elements in the society, its media reported Sunday, as he strives to tighten the ideological discipline amid international sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs.In his address to the Conference of Cell Cha

The latest United Nations sanctions are expected to cut North Korea's foreign currency revenue from exports by approximately US$250 million a year, the foreign ministry here forecast Saturday."North Korea is projected to suffer an export loss of about $250 million due to the newest U.N. sanctio

North Korea on Friday lambasted the recent U.S. security strategy report, threatening to make the country bitterly regret its belligerent policy toward Pyongyang.U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his government's first National Security Strategy on Monday, pledging its readiness to respond wi

Satellite imagery shows little evidence that new sanctions caused a shortage of petrol in North Korea, forcing North Koreans to stand in long lines at gas stations, a U.S. think tank said Thursday.In September U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that long gas lines were forming in North Korea, a rem

North Korea on Wednesday rejected U.S. allegations that it is developing biological weapons, saying that the claim is part of Washington's scheme to stifle the regime.The Trump government's first National Security Strategy released Monday said that the North is pursuing chemical and biologic

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a Pyongyang mausoleum on the weekend to pay tribute to his late father, marking the sixth anniversary of his death, the nation's state media reported Monday.North Korea watchers here had been curious about Kim's whereabouts on the North's "greates

North Korea may shift to compromising alternatives for its nuclear weapons development next year in the face of U.S. threats of military options, while the North's bid to become a globally recognized nuclear state could be hampered by fiscal hardships, a think tank here forecast Friday."(In 201

South Korea's defense ministry said Friday North Korea is likely to continue with military provocations, such as further missile firings, maritime intrusions and cyberattacks.The assessment came as Defense Minister Song Young-moo hosted a year-end meeting of more than 150 senior commanders natio

The United States said Thursday it is looking forward to participating in the Winter Olympics in South Korea's PyeongChang, after an envoy raised the possibility that it might skip the event.U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said a day earlier that it's an "open question" w

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho had a meeting with a senior U.N. official in Pyongyang, the North's official news agency KCNA reported Thursday.Ri had a "talk" with Jeffrey Feltman, the chief diplomat and undersecretary general for political affairs at the United Nations, who paid a c

North Korea has slammed U.S. officials' condemnation over its nuclear and missile programs, warning that Pyongyang will not avoid a war with the United States though it does not want one, Pyongyang's media report showed Thursday.A spokesman at North Korea's foreign ministry said that bel

U.S. weekly Time on Monday announced the 10 finalists for this year's Person of the Year, including North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump.The two leaders were shortlisted along with other people deemed to have most influenced the news during the year."The North Korean

U.S. President Donald Trump will "take care of" the growing nuclear threat from North Korea by taking unilateral action if necessary, his national security adviser said Sunday.H.R. McMaster made the remark on "Fox News Sunday" after North Korea launched what appeared to be its most powerful inte

Emboldened by North Korea's successful test flight of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) last week, the country's leader Kim Jong-un inspected a local tire factory, a supplier of goods for mobile rocket launchers, according to the country's state media Sunday.He stressed tha