U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he looks forward to meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin a second time to continue their work on North Korea and other global issues.Trump and Putin held their first summit in Helsinki this week amid tensions over alleged Russian meddling in th

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called in his ambassadors and heads of other overseas missions to Pyongyang, sources said Thursday.The heads of the North's embassies and other missions were brought in for what is presumed to be an ambassadorial meeting, according to the sources.It has not be

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that there is "no time limit" on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, appearing to take a step back from earlier demands for immediate denuclearization.Trump's remarks came a month after his historic summit with Kim Jong-un, during whi

South Korea's military intelligence agency masterminded the controversial defection of a dozen North Korean restaurant workers based in China, an informed source said Tuesday.The Defense Intelligence Command, affiliated with the defense ministry, led the 2014 operation supported by the National

The United States and North Korea have agreed to resume searching for the remains of thousands of American soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday.The agreement came at a general-level meeting between the two sides earlier in the day, Pompeo said in

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his diplomatic efforts with North Korea, saying his meeting with leader Kim Jong-un was "a good thing" and the regime's halting of nuclear and ballistic missile tests was a "wonderful" fact.In an interview with CBS, Trump was speaking about his

A South Korean official in charge of promoting investments in North Korea's Kaesong Industrial Complex said Friday that the reopening of the now-suspended industrial park in the North's border town will be a first step towards resuming inter-Korean economic cooperation.Addressing a unificati

By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Reporter Sua KimNorth Korea and the United States are obviously deadlocked in their negotiations for a peaceful settlement of the Korean peninsula problems. Denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is the aim, but Chairman Kim Jong Un seems to be procrastinating while

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has a "little gift" for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but wouldn't reveal what it is.Speaking with reporters before departing on a trip to Europe, Trump was asked to confirm a South Korean news report that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday voiced confidence that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will dismantle the regime's nuclear weapons program as promised.Trump wrote the message on Twitter after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Pyongyang over the weekend to flesh out details of the

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday held out a brighter future for North Korea, urging leader Kim Jong-un to follow the path to prosperity taken by Vietnam.Pompeo was speaking at a business event in Hanoi, Vietnam, after completing a two-day trip to Pyongyang where he met with North Korean

North Korea expressed regret Saturday over the attitude of U.S. negotiators during their talks this week to work out details on how to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula as agreed to by their leaders in their recent summit meeting.In a statement issued by an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman and car

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began a trip to North Korea on Friday on a mission to map out details of the communist nation's "complete" denuclearization plan agreed to in the Singapore summit last month.Landing at a Pyongyang airport, he was greeted by Kim Yong-chol, one of leader Kim J

South Korean businessmen who operated factories at the now-shuttered joint industrial complex in North Korea will again ask the government to allow them to visit the park to inspect their facilities, their representative said Friday."We have decided to ask the government again next week," said Shi

South Korea will continue to push for President Moon Jae-in's peace initiative that seeks to peacefully and completely denuclearize the Korean Peninsula by removing any reasons for North Korea to possess nuclear weapons, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Friday.The renewed pledge came o

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left for North Korea Thursday to flesh out a deal on dismantling the regime's nuclear weapons program.Pompeo boarded a plane at Joint Base Andrews, just outside of Washington, early in the day, on his first trip to Pyongyang since last month's historic sum

North Korea's state media Thursday reported on friendly inter-Korean basketball games held in Pyongyang, an event that the two Koreas organized for the first time in some 15 years.The Korean Central News Agency reported that South and North Korean basketball players held two friendly games at th

Most South Koreans welcome the ongoing rapprochement between the two Koreas, highlighted by the two historic summits between their leaders, but for many reasons besides just the peace it may bring.Many, of course, are simply glad to finally see some sort of detente between the two Koreas following a

North Korea held a welcoming dinner Tuesday for a delegation of South Korean athletes and government officials visiting Pyongyang for inter-Korean friendly basketball matches.The 100-strong delegation including coaches and journalists arrived at Pyongyang's Sunan airport earlier in the day on tw

By Sua Kim The South Korean government used two ROK Air Force transport planes to carry its basket ball team members to Pyongyang on July 4, 2018 3, 2018 to avoid United Nations sanctions against North Korea. This was reported by Korean-language daily newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, this morning (July 4).