BY KIM HYUN, Yonhap News
Seoul — North Korea denounced on Thursday U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent nomination of a special envoy on the North Korean human rights, calling it part of a hostile offensive motivated by politics. Read more…
Seoul, October 4 (Yonhap) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in North Korea on Sunday, a Chinese report said, on a trip that comes amid growing diplomatic efforts to revive multilateral negotiations on Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
Wen was widely expected to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during his stay that ends Tuesday. Read more…
Seoul, October 3 (Yonhap) — A North Korean newspaper called Saturday for increased inter-Korean exchanges and cooperative projects with the South, underscoring the need to carry out accords reached by leaders of the two countries in the past. Read more…
US to continue sanctioning N Korea to press denuclearization: State Dept
BY HWANG DOO HYONG, Yonhap News
Washington — The United States Wednesday reiterated that it will continue sanctioning North Korea unless it abandons its nuclear weapons programs. Read more…
BY TONG CHANG, Yonhap News
Seoul — Most South Koreans in their 20s and 30s say they don’t expect North Korea to give up its nuclear capabilities despite ongoing international efforts to denuclearize the communist neighbor, a poll showed Wednesday. Read more…
Bosworth dismisses military option in N Korean nuke issue
BY HWANG DOO HYONG, Yonhap News
Washington — The United States does not have a military option on the table regarding North Korea’s denuclearization, the U.S. point man on North Korea said Tuesday, underscoring that the six-party talks are the only way to resolve the issue. Read more…
BY HWANG DOO HYONG, Yonhap News
Washington — North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is healthy and in firm control of state affairs, the commander of the U.S. forces in Korea said Tuesday.
“We have seen him out in public many more times this year than the same period last year, many, many more times,” Gen. Walter Sharp told Read more…
No decision yet on bilateral talks with N Korea: State Dept
BY HWANG DOO HYONG, Yonhap News
Washington — The United States said Monday it has not yet made a decision on whether to have bilateral talks with North Korea to woo the North back to six-party talks on ending its nuclear ambitions. Read more…
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Mount Kumgang — Hundreds of South and North Koreans on Sunday spent time with long-lost family members on the second day of the first crossborder reunions in nearly two years, but the jubilant air was overshadowed by the inevitable farewells that lie ahead of them. Read more…
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Mount Kumgang — For nearly half a century, the family of Lee Kwae-seok, who went missing at the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 after being conscripted by the South Korean military, thought that Lee died during the three-year war. Read more…