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Fri, June 23, 2017 | 14:08

N. Korea repeatedly slanders President Moon

North Korea is stepping up its smear campaign against President Moon Jae-in over his tough stance on the North’s provocations. “His pledge to strengthen international sanctions is a betrayal of South Koreans’ wish to enhance inter-Korean relationships,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said, Thursday. This was in response to President Moo...

North Korea | 2017-06-22 16:49

S. Korea cautious about assessing N. Korea's offer for moratorium on nuke tests

South Korea on Thursday cast caution over reading too much into a North Korean envoy's remarks proposing a conditional moratorium on the North's nuclear and missile tests.

North Korea | 2017-06-22 15:22

N. Korea is open to moratorium on nuclear, missile tests [VIDEO]

N. Korea condemns Moon's offer for talks over Pyongyang's end to provocations

North Korea on Thursday rebuked President Moon Jae-in for suggesting that Seoul is open to unconditional talks if Pyongyang stops provocative acts, urging him to show a proper attitude toward inter-Korean ties.

North Korea | 2017-06-22 10:04

N. Korea is open to moratorium on nuclear, missile tests [VIDEO]

North Korea's top envoy to India on Wednesday offered a conditional moratorium on his country's nuclear and missile tests in an apparent bid to hold talks with the United States. North Korea Ambassador to India Kye Chun-yong said Pyongyang is willing to talk in terms of freezing its nuclear and missile tests under certain circumstances. "If our demands is met, we can negotiat...

North Korea | 2017-06-22 10:02

S. Korea cautious about assessing N. Korea's offer for moratorium on nuke tests

Warmbier death: Trump pressed to ban travel to North Korea; military strike not viable option yet

Following Otto Warmbier’s death, Americans are boiling with anger over what they described as the North Korean regime’s “brutality” to foreigners held captive there. The U.S. government faces increasing pressure to take a tougher stance on the reclusive state, while chances of settling issues through dialogue are dimming. Some people have proposed a military strike, but most ...

North Korea | 2017-06-21 16:57

[Reporter's Notebook] S. Korea is not America's marionette

US Senate to hold hearing on Warmbier's death

The U.S. Senate has scheduled a hearing that is expected to focus on the death of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was detained in North Korea for more than a year, its website showed Wednesday. Warmbier, 22, died Monday, days after returning home in a coma following 17 months of captivity in the North for stealing a political propaganda poster from a hotel in P...

North Korea | 2017-06-21 14:45

'We were mugged at JFK airport': N. Korean delegates

Three North Korean men claiming to be diplomatic couriers said security officers “mugged” them at John F. Kennedy International Airport last week. U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers and airport police took a package from the men that contained a valid diplomatic courier certificate, Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Sunday.

North Korea | 2017-06-21 14:20

Travel groups suspend trips to N. Korea after Warmbier's death

Travel agencies specializing in North Korea tours are saying they will no longer take U.S. citizens to the North after an American university student released by North Korea last week in a coma died, Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday. An official at New Korea Tours, a North Korea tour operator, told the Washington-based RFA in an email that it has decided not to receive appl...

North Korea | 2017-06-21 11:25

Moon says reopening of inter-Korean industrial complex 'possible only after N. Korea agrees denuclearization'

South Korean President Moon Jae-in stressed the need to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table while telling the communist North that denuclearization was the "right path" to ensure its safety in a recent interview published Wednesday. In his interview with The Washington Post, the new South Korean president said his country may also consider reopening its joint indu...

North Korea | 2017-06-21 11:23

Trump pressed to issue ban on tourist travel to N. Korea after Warmbier's death

The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has called for a ban on tourist travel to North Korea after American student Otto Warmbier died just days after his release from the North in a coma. "Travel propaganda lures far too many people to North Korea. This is a regime that regularly kidnaps foreign citizens and keeps 120,000 North Koreans in barbaric gulags. T...

North Korea | 2017-06-21 11:19

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