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Sat, August 24, 2019 | 02:52

UN council to go over North Korea's human rights

The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will go over North Korea's human rights situation starting May 6, according to diplomatic sources, Wednesday. The examination will take place as part of the 33rd session of the working group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). It will take place from May 6 to 17 at the council's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Yi Whan-woo | 2019-05-01 17:18

Tours to inter-Korean border region to resume on southern side

Civilian tours to the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom were set to resume Wednesday, with access expanded to previously off-limit points, including a bridge that President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un strolled along during their first summit last year.

2019-05-01 10:17

Ex-US envoy calls Pyongyang 'corrupt mafia state'

Ex-US envoy calls Pyongyang 'corrupt mafia state'

A former U.S. envoy on Tuesday slammed North Korea as a "corrupt mafia state" after it emerged that the regime billed the U.S. $2 million dollars for the hospital care of an American detainee in 2017. Ambassador Robert King, who served as the State Department's special envoy for North Korean..

2019-05-01 09:49

North Korea is overconfident: experts

North Korea is too confident in the denuclearization talks and its brand of “negotiation through strength” is more arrogance than strategy with potentially destabilizing consequences, experts said Tuesday.

Kim Yoo-chul | 2019-04-30 17:32

Ex-US envoy calls Pyongyang 'corrupt mafia state'

Young defector's mother urges South to stop her 'forcible repatriation'

The mother of a nine-year-old North Korean girl captured in China has pleaded with the South Korean government to stop her daughter from being forcibly repatriated to the North. According to the South's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Justice for North Korea, a nonprofit human rights organization, Monday, the girl was among seven North Korean defectors arrested recently by Ch...

Lee Min-hyung | 2019-04-30 16:54

Ex-diplomat says US signed to pay N. Korea for prisoner, should honor deal

A former diplomat confirmed Monday that the United States agreed to pay $2 million to North Korea to release an American student who had fallen into a coma after alleged torture - and said Washington should honor the commitment. Joseph Yun, a veteran US diplomat who had flown to Pyongyang in 2017 to bring back 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, said that North Korea presented him wit...

2019-04-30 09:36

Bolton rebuffs Putin's proposal for six-party talks

The United States is skeptical about reviving a stalled multi-nation dialogue on the nuclear disarmament of North Korea, as the approach failed to generate outcomes in the past, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said Sunday (local time). “I think it's not what our preference is,” Bolton told Fox News.

Lee Min-hyung | 2019-04-29 17:14

Civic group claims 7 North Korean defectors face repatriation from China

Seven North Korean defectors are facing repatriation to their communist homeland from China, a civic group claimed Monday, calling for the Seoul government to help prevent their return. The defectors include a 9-year-old girl identified by the surname Choe and her 32-year-old uncle, identified only as Kang, Justice for North Korea claimed. They had been hiding on the outskirt...

2019-04-29 16:07

North Korea, trade high on agenda for Trump-Abe meeting

North Korea's nuclear program and trade are at the top of the agenda for President Donald Trump's meeting Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, one of the president's key backers on the world stage. The meeting comes on the heels of Thursday's nuclear talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Trump's second summit with Kim...

2019-04-29 10:33

Bolton says 6-party forum is not preferred approach on N. Korea

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that reviving six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization is not Washington's preferred approach. In an interview with Fox News, Bolton was asked if President Donald Trump would go along with Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent suggestion that the six-party talks, which collapsed in 2009, be restored to break ...

2019-04-29 09:48

Regional powers raising voices on North Korea dialogue

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