Korean Peace Talks

(Adds comment from U.S. State Department) By Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee SEOUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it had turned down a U.S. offer for fresh talks, saying it was not interested in more talks merely aimed at "appeasing us" ahead o…

By Cho Eun-jung November 13, 2019 U.S. and North Korean officials held a meeting at a nonproliferation conference in Moscow, a former U.S. official who attended the conference told VOA's Korean Service, as the denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Was…

The United States and North Korea could open a new round of working-level talks later this month or in early December, a South Korean official has indicated, and the timing is critical due to Pyongyangs year-end deadline to move past the negotiations current …

Seoul's decision to terminate a key military intelligence sharing pact with Japan risks sending the "wrong message" to adversaries, the commander of US troops in South Korea said ahead of the deal's expiration next week. Seoul and Tokyo are both major US all…

Author: Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University A rollercoaster pattern of crises and peace has characterised the Korean Peninsula for the past three years. In 2017, anxieties were heightened after North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test in September and test-…

A week ago in this space, I argued that North Korea might not be aware of just how unique its current negotiating opportunity is. The American president Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-In are more dovish on North Korea than any of their prede…

North Korea has issued a scathing statement mocking Japan's condemnation of recent rocket and missile tests by insulting the country's leader and evoking its painful history of nuclear warfare. In a statement carried Thursday by the official Korean Central N…

North Korea has fiercely condemned planned joint U.S.-South Korean military drills, arguing that the scheduled war games threaten finely-balanced denuclearization talks and betray America's "imperialist" instincts. On Wednesday, a statement carried by the No…

If North Korea and Japan went to war, more South Koreans would back their immediate neighbor, a new poll by a state-sponsored think tank in Seoul showed. The survey, conducted by research fellow Lee Sang Sin, was presented Wednesday as part of the Korea Inst…

Key point: Seoul has had to learn how to counter Pyongyang's many crazy special operations missions. At 4:30 p.m. on June 22, 1998, Capt. Kim In-yong noticed a curious site from the helm of his fishing boat as it sailed eleven miles east of the South Korean …