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
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with a senior North Korean official in New York this week, the White House said Tuesday, as the two sides ramp up preparations for a potential summit between their leaders.The visit by Kim Yong-chol, a vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers
Japan plans to push for a foreign ministers meeting with North Korea in August should the North make progress toward denuclearization after the summit between the United States and the communist country, the Japanese news agency has said.Citing multiple government sources, Japan's Kyodo News rep
U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday to meet ahead of the president's planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the White House said.Trump and Abe spoke by phone after the U.S. leader canceled his June 12 meeting with Kim, citing "open host
U.S. and North Korean officials will meet again on the inter-Korean border after a one-day break Monday, a diplomatic source said, as they continue preparations for a potential summit between their leaders.The two sides met Sunday (Korea time) on the northern side of the border, with the U.S. delega
South Korea is making preparations for high-level talks with North Korea slated for later this week to discuss follow-up measures to the historic summit between their leaders last month, the unification ministry said Monday.The move came after South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean lead
The wife of the Korean Air Lines chairman appeared at a Seoul police office Monday to undergo questioning over multiple assault and abuse allegations.Lee Myung-hee, director of Ilwoo Foundation, arrived at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency at around 10 a.m. Police summoned her last week.Lee and h
The National Assembly is set to hold a plenary session Monday to deal with controversial issues, including a resolution on the April inter-Korean summit.The final plenary meeting of the current extraordinary session is scheduled to open at 2 p.m., which will cap the first half of the 20th National A
A former U.S. nuclear negotiator on Sunday cast doubt on the prospects of North Korea's denuclearization, saying the communist regime is unlikely to give up its nukes in a potential summit with the United States.Victor Cha, former Asia director on the White House National Security Council, tampe
The commander of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Friday that President Donald Trump's cancellation of the planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would mean the delay, not loss, of the unprecedented chance for rapprochement.Gen. Vincent Brooks made the remarks at a local seminar, a
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday his country remains committed to dialogue with North Korea despite President Donald Trump's decision to call off his summit talks with the communist nation's leader next month, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.Pompeo made the remarks i
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, citing the latter's "tremendous anger and open hostility."Trump informed Kim of the cancellation in a letter released by the White House, just hours after North Korea demolished its nuclear
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that he raised the issue of North Korea's human rights abuses when he met leader Kim Jong-un.Pompeo traveled to Pyongyang twice -- once in April and again in May -- to lay the groundwork for a June 12 meeting in Singapore between U.S. President
North Korea looks set to destroy its only known nuclear test site in front of international journalists probably later Thursday, given their itinerary and local weather conditions.A group of reporters and television crews from South Korea, the United States, China, Russia and Britain are apparently
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that his planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may not happen next month.Trump met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House ahead of the historic summit set for June 12 in Singapore."There's a chance that it will wor
South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in Washington on Monday for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump about strategies for Trump's upcoming high-stakes summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.Moon is scheduled to hold talks with Trump on Tuesday, starting with a 30-minute private mee
While Vice Chairman Lee Jay-yong of Korea’s biggest jaebeol business group, Samsung, was detained for five months since Feb. 17, 2017 for suspected involvement in shady deals with the now-discredited former President Park Geun-hye, many people said (unjustifiably), “Wouldn’t that do a big damage to
South Korean President Moon Jae-in was set to leave for Washington on Monday on an apparent mission to help broker a nuclear deal between the United States and North Korea ahead of their first-ever summit next month.Moon's trip follows his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Sunday and exchanged views on making the upcoming U.S.-North Korea summit a success, the presidential office said. The two leaders talked from 11:30 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. and agreed to closely work together on the h
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday named Harry Harris, current commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, his first ambassador to South Korea at a critical diplomatic juncture on the Korean Peninsula.The White House made the announcement just weeks ahead of a nuclear summit between Trump and North Ko