South Korean president meets Pyongyang delegationAugust 23rd, 2009 SEOUL - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak held talks with a visiting North Korean delegation here Sunday amid Pyongyang's latest conciliatory moves that show signs of easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, media reports said. A high-level North Korean delegation arrived here Friday to pay their last respect to late former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung who died recently.
South Korean president meets North Korean delegation for the first timeAugust 23rd, 2009 SEOUL - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met a six-member North Korean delegation here on Sunday. A meeting of this nature is taking place for the first time since the former assumed office in February 2008.
New Mexico Gov. Richardson, North Korean officials to meet in Santa FeAugust 19th, 2009 North Korean officials to meet with NM governorSANTA FE, N.M. — Two North Korean diplomats are in Santa Fe and will meet with Gov.
North Korea to open up borders for South Korean touristsAugust 17th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Monday said it was reopening its borders for inter-Korean tourism projects with South Korea and to remove obstacles from the operation of a jointly-run business park, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported. In a joint press release, Hyundai and North's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which runs inter-Korean business affairs, announced to "restore" passage for South Korean personnel to the Kaesong industrial park.
North Korea puts troops on alert over South Korea-US war gamesAugust 17th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Monday put its troops on alert as an annual joint South Korean-US war game commenced and accused its neighbour of planning an attack. North Korea would react to any provocation with a "merciless and prompt annihilating strike at the aggressors with all offensive and defensive means, including nuclear deterrent", state media quoted the high command of the Korean People's Army as saying.
US refuses to comment about India detaining North Korean shipAugust 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Coordinator for Implementation of UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1874, Ambassador Philip Goldberg said on Friday that New Delhi might have acted under international and domestic law in detaining the North Korean ship MV Mu San. Goldberg was speaking with reporters at a special State Department briefing.
Sister says detained American journalist acknowledges breaking North Korean lawJuly 9th, 2009 Sister: Journalist says she broke North Korean lawSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The sister of an American journalist jailed in North Korea says the woman acknowledged breaking North Korean law during a recent phone call.
Source: Suspected N. Korean weapons ship changes course after days under eye of US NavyJune 30th, 2009 Source: North Korean ship now going the other wayWASHINGTON — A U.S. official says a North Korean ship has turned around and is headed back the way it came, after being tracked for days by American vessels on suspicion it was carrying illicit weapons.
US journalists admit to smear campaign, says North KoreaJune 16th, 2009 SEOUL - Two US journalists jailed in North Korea have admitted their part in a "smear campaign" against the country, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday. They entered the country illegally with the aim of making films to misrepresent North Korea's human rights policy, the report said.
China's Hu, Obama, discuss situation on Korean Peninsula, bilateral tiesJune 3rd, 2009 China's Hu, Obama, discuss North KoreaBEIJING — President Barack Obama discussed the crisis on the Korean Peninsula with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in a phone call early Wednesday, Chinese state media reported. A brief report by the official Xinhua News Agency gave no details of the discussion, which comes amid efforts by the U.S.
North Korea conducts another missile testMay 27th, 2009 SEOUL/TOKYO - The North Korean military fired another short-range missile across the Sea of Japan, its third such launch since conducting an internationally condemned nuclear test Monday, South Korean media reported early Wednesday. The missile was launched after 9 p.m.
Talks between North, South Korea end after 20 minutesApril 21st, 2009 SEOUL - The first direct talks between the governments of North and South Korea in more than a year lasted for around 20 minutes Tuesday, South Korean officials said. There were no details as to what had been discussed at the meeting, which took place in the North Korean border city of Kaesong at an industrial park operated jointly by the two neighbours.
US, South Korea say North Korean satellite launch failsApril 6th, 2009 SEOUL/WASHINGTON - Media reports in the US and South Korea said Sunday that North Korea had failed to place a satellite into orbit with its rocket launching earlier in the day. The news network CNN, citing the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), reported that the North Korean satellite failed to achieve orbit.
North Korea threatens to shoot down South Korean planesMarch 6th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Thursday indirectly threatened to shoot down South Korean passenger aircraft in its airspace, amid growing tension on the Korean peninsula. North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea made the threat as the US and South Korea prepared to undertake joint military exercises next Monday.
North Korea scraps all accords with South KoreaJanuary 29th, 2009 PYONGYANG - North Korea has scrapped all political and military agreements with South Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported Friday. It denounced the South Korean government for pushing the inter-Korean relations to the brink of a war.
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