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US says nuclear deal 'still possible'

In this Feb. 2, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with North Korean defectors where he talked with reporters about allowing the release of a secret memo on the FBI's role in the Russia inquiry. AP-YonhapBy Kim Yoo-chul, Yi Whan-woo Despite North Korea's decision to launch what appeared to be short-range missiles into the sea off its eastern coast on the weekend, officials in the United States and political analysts have ruled out the possibility that this could end Washington's joint diplomatic efforts to get Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program.Cheong Wa Dae said Monday that it had no new information on the North's provocative action, such as the launch method or exact type of missiles used; while the U.S. is apparently reacting to the firing in a “thoughtful manner.”Early Monday (KST), U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the launches “didn't present a threat to the United States” and its allies, nor will it derail the Trump administration's attempts to reach a denuclearization deal. “We still believe there

May 6, 2019By Kim Yoo-chul
US says nuclear deal 'still possible'
  • North Korea tests new missile - and Trump's resolve

Provocations 'intended to scuttle Trump's North Korea policy'

North Korean military conducts a live-fire drill for multiple launchers and tactical guided weapons in the country's east coastal city of Wonsan, Saturday. / YonhapBy Yi Whan-wooNorth Korea fired several short-range projectiles, Saturday, to ratchet up pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump to return to the negotiating table with a compromise on easing sanctions, analysts said Sunday.They said Trump, however, will keep sanctions and that sanctions relief will not happen, just like when the summit between leaders of the two counties collapsed in Hanoi, Vietnam late February. The experts said such a deadlock will force North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, not Trump, to consider whether to go back on the path to war as in 2017 or comply with the U.S. demand for full denuclearization in return for sanctions relief.Pyongyang apparently did not want to anger the U.S., Saturday, as they did not fire intermediate- or long-range missiles. A series of test launches in 2017 showed that the North's intermediate-range missiles can reach the U.S. military base in Guam while the latter can target the

May 5, 2019By Yi Whan-woo
Provocations 'intended to scuttle Trump's North Korea policy'
  • Seoul, Washington calibrate response to North Korea

Cheong Wa Dae concerned about North Korea's breach of inter-Korean military deal

President Moon Jae-in speaks at the start of a weekly meeting with senior presidential secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae, April 15. Moon's right is National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong. YonhapSouth Korea's presidential office said Saturday that North Korea's firing of short-range projectiles is contrary to the purpose of inter-Korean military accords last year.It urged Pyongyang to stop acts of escalating military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, briefing media on the results of an emergency meeting of top security officials held hours after North Korea fired unidentified projectiles into the East Sea.Chung Eui-yong, director of Cheong Wa Dae's National Security Office, presided over the session, according to presidential spokesperson Ko Min-jung.Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo and National Intelligence Service chief Suh Hoon joined the meeting, along with some other officials in charge of national security.They "assessed the background and intention of the launch," she said, adding the national crisis management center is keeping close tabs on related situations.Currently, Ko

May 4, 2019
Cheong Wa Dae concerned about North Korea's breach of inter-Korean military deal
  • North Korea condemns USFK's THAAD drill
  • North Korea fires short-range missiles for first time since 2017
  • Seoul, Washington to 'prudently' handle Pyongyang's latest missiles
  • Trump urges Putin to keep pressure on Pyongyang
  • PHOTOS North Korea says 'rocket launchers, guided weapons tested'
  • Seoul, Washington calibrate response to North Korea

Trump urges Putin to keep pressure on Pyongyang

This combination of file photos created on January 16, 2017, shows US President-elect Donald Trump on December 16, 2016 in Orlando, Florida and Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 19, 2016 in Berlin. AFP-YonhapU.S. President Donald Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to help keep pressure on North Korea until it dismantles its nuclear weapons program, Trump's spokeswoman said.The two leaders spoke by phone and discussed nuclear agreements, trade, and the political situations in North Korea, Ukraine and Venezuela, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders."They spoke about North Korea for a good bit of time on the call and reiterated both the commitment and the need for denuclearization," Sanders told reporters at the White House."And the president said several times on this front as well the need and importance of Russia stepping up and continuing to help and put pressure on North Korea to denuclearize," she said. "And that was again the focus of the president's comment on that front."Putin held his first summit with North Korean leader Kim Jon

May 4, 2019
  • Seoul, Washington to 'prudently' handle Pyongyang's latest missiles
  • Cheong Wa Dae concerned about North Korea's breach of inter-Korean military deal

US detainee's mother calls for continued pressure on Pyongyang

Cindy Warmbier, mother of late US prisoner in North Korea Otto Warmbier, speaks at a seminar on North Korean abductees in Washington, DC, on May 3, 2019. AFP-YonhapThe mother of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died in 2017 after being detained in North Korea, made a plea Friday for continued pressure on the regime.Cindy Warmbier spoke at a seminar alongside family members of South Korean, Japanese and U.S. citizens who are believed to have been abducted by North Korea in past decades."Unless we keep the pressure on North Korea, they are not going to change," she said at the event co-hosted by the Hudson Institute, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and the Japanese government."I am very afraid that we're going to let up on this pressure. So I need everyone here to keep the pressure on everybody you can. There are still a lot of families here that deserve to see their family members," she said.Cindy Warmbier, mother of late US prisoner in North Korea Otto Warmbier, speaks at a seminar on North Korean abductees in Washington, DC, on May 3, 2019. AFP-YonhapThe

May 4, 2019
US detainee's mother calls for continued pressure on Pyongyang

Seoul, Washington to 'prudently' handle Pyongyang's latest missiles

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha answers a reporter's question during a meeting with members of foreign media in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 3, 2019. AP-YonhapIn this file photo taken on July 25, 2018, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies during a hearing before Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, DC. AFP-YonhapThe top diplomats of South Korea and the United States agreed Saturday to "prudently" handle North Korea's launch of short-range projectiles during their telephone talks, Seoul's foreign ministry said.Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by phone hours after the North fired the projectiles into the East Sea in an apparent show of growing impatience over stalled nuclear negotiations with Washington."Regarding today's launch, the two sides agreed to prudently deal with it and continue to communicate while continuing additional analysis (of the launch)," the ministry said in a text message sent to reporters.Lee Do-hoon, the ministry's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affair

May 4, 2019
Seoul, Washington to 'prudently' handle Pyongyang's latest missiles
  • North Korea fires short-range missiles for first time since 2017
  • Trump urges Putin to keep pressure on Pyongyang
  • Cheong Wa Dae concerned about North Korea's breach of inter-Korean military deal

North Korea fires short-range missiles for first time since 2017

In this April 24, 2019, file photo released by the Press office of the administration of Primorsky Krai region, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un talks with Russian officials upon his arrival at the border station of Khasan, Primorsky Krai region, Russia. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff says North Korea has fired an unidentified short-range missile from its eastern coast. The firing Saturday, May 4, comes amid a diplomatic breakdown that has followed the failed summit earlier this year between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the North's pursuit of a nuclear arsenal that can target the U.S. mainland. AP-YonhapNorth Korea fired several short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea's military said, the first missile launch since 2017 as it steps up pressure against Washington after a failed nuclear summit.The North fired an unidentified short-range missile from the city of Wonsan around 9 a.m. (0000 GMT), South Korea's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The Office said it was conducting joint analysis with t

May 4, 2019
North Korea fires short-range missiles for first time since 2017
  • Seoul, Washington to 'prudently' handle Pyongyang's latest missiles
  • Cheong Wa Dae concerned about North Korea's breach of inter-Korean military deal

Abe seen reaching out to North Korea ahead of key election

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes part in a meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (not pictured) on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 28. ReutersJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to be revving up his diplomatic outreach to North Korea amid preparations for key parliamentary elections this summer and simmering tensions with South Korea.In a recent interview with the Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun, Abe voiced his desire to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "unconditionally" for frank talks and to tackle the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang decades ago.Abe has been girding for upper house elections slated for July, amid expectation that he may strive for foreign policy coups in the wake of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's defeat last month in two key by-elections seen as a major test of public sentiment."We can't break the shell of mutual distrust between Japan and North Korea unless I directly face Mr. Kim," he told the newspaper. "I hope that he is a leader who can make a decision strategically and flexibly on what i

May 3, 2019
Abe seen reaching out to North Korea ahead of key election

Kim Jong-nam murder suspect freed

In this file photo taken on April 1, Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong (R), accused in the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, smiles as she is escorted by police out of the High Court in Shah Alam. She was freed from prison on May 3, ending legal proceedings stemming from the shocking hit despite criticism that the real culprits never faced justice. AFPA Vietnamese woman who spent more than two years in a Malaysian prison on suspicion of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was freed on Friday, her lawyer said.Doan Thi Huong, 30, was charged along with an Indonesian woman with poisoning Kim Jong-nam by smearing his face with liquid VX, a banned chemical weapon, at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017.Malaysian prosecutors dropped a murder charge against Huong last month after she pleaded guilty to an alternate charge of causing harm. Huong will return to Vietnam later on Friday, her lawyer, Hisyam Teh, told Reuters.Huong was taken into immigration custody immediately after her release from prison and will remain there

May 3, 2019
Kim Jong-nam murder suspect freed

'Seoul unready to help Pyongyang's food shortages'

In this photo taken on July 27, 2018, women push a cart laden with North Korean soda drinks across a road in Pyongyang. North Korea on Aug. 2 warned its people of "unprecedented" heatwaves that hit the peninsula and urged efforts to save crops against drought that may hamper food production at the impoverished country. AFP-YonhapSouth Korea has no immediate plan to provide food assistance to North Korea, a unification ministry official said Thursday, amid growing concerns about aggravating food shortages in the communist state. "The government's stance remains unchanged that humanitarian assistance to improve the humanitarian situation for North Korean citizens should continue, which is also shared by the United States," the official told reporters on condition of anonymity. "At this point, however, we are not considering a provision of food on a government level." North Korea's food situation appears to be worsening, apparently affected by years of droughts and floods. Global sanctions on its regime have also been cited as a major factor putting strain on the country's already fragi

May 2, 2019
'Seoul unready to help Pyongyang's food shortages'
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