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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak is slowing. The discussion at the North’s Politburo meeting suggests…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A huge number of North Koreans including leader Kim Jong Un attended a funeral for a top official, state media reported Monday, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its suspected coronavirus outbreak is subsiding. In this photo provided by the North Korean government,…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A huge number of North Koreans including leader Kim Jong Un attended a funeral for a top official, state media reported Monday, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its suspected coronavirus outbreak is subsiding. Since admitting earlier this month to an outbreak of…

President Joe Biden, in Seoul before heading to Japan as part of his first Asia trip as president, had a simple message for North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “Hello... period,” he told reporters on the last day of his visit to South Korea on Sunday. Biden said he was “not…

Seoul (CNN)Before President Joe Biden concluded a visit to South Korea on Sunday, he offered a brief message to the nuclear-armed dictator to the north, who US officials believe could be preparing for a provocation during the US leader's visit to Asia. "Hello," Biden said when asked his message for…

Published May 21, 2022 8:46PM EDT Credit: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST U.S. President Joe Biden, in Seoul before heading to Japan as part of his first Asia trip as president, had a simple message for North Korea's Kim Jong Un: "Hello... period," he told reporters on the last day of his visit…

While the administration has said it is open to talks with Pyongyang with no preconditions, North Korean officials have so far declined to meet...Read More

President Joe Biden has said the U.S. will "enhance" deterrence aimed at North Korea amid renewed concerns that the country could perform more tests of long-range missiles. Biden issued a joint statement with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol early on Saturday during his first visit to Asia since becoming…

SEOUL—President Biden expressed openness to meeting Kim Jong Un if the North Korean leader was sincere in his intentions, even as the U.S. and South Korea signaled plans for a stronger deterrence against Pyongyang’s accelerating weapons program. In a joint statement after a Saturday meeting here with new South Korean…

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Saturday it found nearly 220,000 more people with feverish symptoms, even as leader Kim Jong Un claimed progress in slowing a largely undiagnosed spread of COVID-19 across his unvaccinated populace and hinted at easing virus restrictions to nurse a decaying economy. The outbreak…