Pyongyang sends delegation for South Korea ex-president’s funeral

September 4th, 2009 PYONGYANG - Foreign Ministers of North Korea and Cuba have held talks here. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla Bruno arrived in Pyongyang from China Thursday along with a Cuban government delegation.

August 31st, 2009 Koreas to restore regular cross-border trafficSEOUL, South Korea — Regular traffic across the heavily fortified border dividing North and South Korea will be restored this week, officials in Seoul said Monday amid further signs of improved relations between the two nations. The North's state radio station, meanwhile, quoted leader Kim Jong Il as saying that the U.S.

August 31st, 2009 PYONGYANG - US and South Korean spy planes conducted over 170 reconnaissance missions over North Korea in August, the official media reported Monday citing a military source. Some 90 flights were conducted by the US, which used the RC-135, U-2 and E-3 reconnaissance aircraft over waters near the northeastern part of South Korea, while South Korea was responsible for at least 80 flights, the Korean Central News Agency said.

August 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON/SEOUL - US special envoy Stephen Bosworth is said to have accepted an offer from North Korea for nuclear talks and is expected to visit Pyongyang next month. According to South Korean media reports, the reported invitation comes after Pyongyang was said to have proposed a summit with South Korea over the weekend, though Seoul denied the report.

August 23rd, 2009 N. Korea delegation meets with S. Korean presidentSEOUL, South Korea — A high-level North Korean delegation conveyed a message from leader Kim Jong Il to the South Korean president during a rare meeting Sunday in the latest sign of warming ties on the tense Korean peninsula.

August 23rd, 2009 NKorean delegation meets with SKorean presidentSEOUL, South Korea — A high-level North Korean delegation conveyed a message from leader Kim Jong Il to the South Korean president during a rare meeting Sunday in the latest sign of warming ties on the tense Korean peninsula. President Lee Myung-bak and three North Korean officials discussed inter-Korean cooperation during the half-hour meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Lee spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said.

August 23rd, 2009 SKorean president meets NKorean delegationSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's president met a high-level delegation from North Korea Sunday amid signs of warming ties on the divided peninsula. Relations between the Koreas have been largely frozen since conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office last year with a tougher line on the North amid the international standoff over its nuclear ambitions.

August 23rd, 2009 SEOUL - Thousands of South Koreans and international delegates attended the state funeral for former president and Nobel peace laureate Kim Dae Jung that began at Seoul's national assembly Sunday. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was among the guests at the memorial services for Kim, who died aged 83 last Tuesday.

August 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.

August 23rd, 2009 SEOUL - Tens of thousands of South Koreans and international delegates attended the state funeral for former president and Nobel peace laureate Kim Dae Jung Sunday, which also prompted talks with North Korean envoys after months of stalled negotiations. Kim, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for achieving a detente with North Korea and bringing democratic reform to South Korea, died aged 83 last Tuesday, as a result of pneumonia and related illnesses.

August 22nd, 2009 SEOUL - North and South Korea held their first high-level talks in almost two years Saturday amid indications of an easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula. South Korea's Minister of Unification Hyun In Taek met Kim Yang Gon, the head of the unification front department of North Korea's ruling Korean Workers' Party, South Korean media said.

August 20th, 2009 Body of SKorea's Kim moved into place for funeralSEOUL, South Korea — The body of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has been transported to the National Assembly, where it will lie in state until his funeral Sunday. Kim died Tuesday at age 85, unleashing an outpouring of grief for a man who campaigned for democracy at home and won the Nobel Peace Prize for a historic summit with rival North Korea.

August 19th, 2009 Koreas mourn death of SKorea's Kim Dae-jungSEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans mourned former President Kim Dae-jung on Thursday, offering flowers and prayers as the government arranged a state funeral for the longtime democracy and human rights campaigner. Kim, who died Tuesday at age 85 after a battle with pneumonia, was to be placed in a coffin at Seoul's Severance Hospital and taken to the National Assembly later in the day, said Choi Kyung-hwan, an aide to Kim.

April 21st, 2009 SEOUL - A South Korean delegation reached North Korea Tuesday morning to participate in talks amid mounting tensions in the Korean Peninsula. 'The delegation has crossed the border,' a spokesman of South Korea's Unification Ministry said.

April 19th, 2009 SEOUL - The South Korean government Sunday said that it has decided to accept Pyongyang's offer for holding inter-Korean talks next week. It will be the first governmental talks between South Korea and North Korea since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in February last year.