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.
Official: SKorea to demand NKorea release detained worker during this week's rare talksJune 18th, 2009 SKorea to demand NKorea to free detained workerSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will demand the release of a citizen held by North Korea when the two countries meet for a third round of talks over the fate of a troubled joint factory park, an official said Thursday. Friday's meeting at the North Korean border town of Kaesong, the site of the industrial park, comes amid rising tension in the peninsula over the North's nuclear program.
Obama's Day: President to meet with South Korean leaderJune 16th, 2009 Obama's Day: Meeting with South Korean leaderWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is meeting today with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, a key ally in dealing with the increasingly belligerent North Korea. Pyongyang's pledge to expand its nuclear programs gives a sense of urgency to the White House meeting.
SKorean firm to withdraw from industrial complex in North Korea amid tensionsJune 9th, 2009 SKorean firm pulls out from complex in NKoreaSEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean company has decided to pull out from a troubled industrial complex in North Korea amid tensions on the peninsula over the North's recent nuclear and missile tests, officials said Tuesday. Skinnet, a Seoul-based fur manufacturer, would be the first South Korean company to stop operations at the complex in the North's border town of Kaesong since it was opened in 2004 as a key symbol of rapprochement and a hard currency earner for the North.
NKorea nixes any dialogue with SKorea after Seoul criticizes North's human rights recordMay 9th, 2009 N.Korea says dialogue with S.Korea out of questionSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Saturday that it would not even consider talking with South Korea, lashing out at Seoul for criticizing the isolated country's human rights record. South Korea had been planning to propose talks on the two countries' troubled joint industrial complex, but the statement put any such talks in doubt.
North and South Korea consulting to hold new round of official talksMay 5th, 2009 Koreas consulting over new round of official talksSEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea are discussing the possibility of a new round of government-level talks, a Seoul official said Tuesday, after a brief and contentious meeting last month ended with little progress. Government officials from the divided countries met on April 21 in the North Korean border city of Kaesong for their first official talks since a conservative, pro-U.S.
NKorea says it is intensifying investigation of detained SKorean workerMay 1st, 2009 NKorea intensifies probe of detained SKoreanSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Friday it is intensifying its investigation into a South Korean worker detained on suspicion of denouncing the communist nation's government, indicating it had no intention of releasing him any time soon. The man was detained March 30 at an industrial complex in North Korea that the two neighboring countries jointly operate.
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.
Rare talks between North and South Korea end shortly after startingApril 21st, 2009 Inter-Korean talks end shortly after startingSEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea held brief talks Tuesday over a troubled industrial project in the communist country after officials spent most of the day in a procedural standoff. The meeting — which lasted just 22 minutes — came amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula after international condemnation of North Korea's April 5 rocket launch and its decision to restart it nuclear program and withdraw from negotiations aimed at disarmament.
South Korean officials travel to North for meeting over troubled factory complexApril 21st, 2009 SKorean officials travel to NKorea for meetingnull
North and South Korea begin rare talks after hours of delayApril 21st, 2009 Inter-Korean talks begin after hours of delaySEOUL, South Korea — South Korea says talks with North Korea about a troubled joint factory complex in the communist country have begun after hours of delay. Unification Ministry spokeswoman Kim Ho-nyeon said that the talks began Tuesday night at the Kaesong Industrial Complex across the border in North Korea.
South Korea agrees for talks with North KoreaApril 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.
Nouth Korea offers warning, dialogue to South Korea amid tensionsApril 19th, 2009 North Korea offers warning, dialogue to SouthSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's military has warned South Korea to stay out of a U.S.-led initiative to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, while Seoul postponed plans to announce its participation after a surprise offer of dialogue by Pyongyang. An unnamed North Korean military spokesman said Saturday that South Korea's full participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative would be seen "as a declaration of undisguised confrontation and a declaration of a war against" North Korea.
SKorea accepts NKorea's proposal for talks on joint factory parkApril 19th, 2009 SKorea: 2 Koreas will hold talks this weekSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has accepted North Korea's proposal for talks on a joint factory park, setting up the first high-level dialogue between the two countries in a year, an official said Sunday. Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo told reporters that officials of the two Koreas plan to meet in the border town of Kaesong on Tuesday to discuss the factory complex.
South Korea says North Korea has proposed meeting on joint industrial complexApril 17th, 2009 NKorea proposes meeting on joint factory parkSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea says that North Korea has proposed a meeting on a joint factory park in the North next week. Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon told reporters Saturday that the North recently proposed a meeting to discuss the joint complex in the border town of Kaesong.
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