Korean Peace Talks

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Thursday it planned to push new laws to ban activists from flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border after North Korea threatened to end an inter-Korean military agreement reached in 2018 to reduce tensions if Seoul fails to prevent the protests.The South’s desperate…

The purpose: to address “new policies for further increasing the nuclear war deterrence” of North Korea. The regime explained that the orders issued dealt with “putting the strategic armed forces on a high alert operation in line with the general requirements for the building and development of the armed forces of…

As an archipelago of 6,852 islands, Japan is extremely protective of the most far-flung outposts of its territory, in part because some of its neighbors are casting increasingly covetous looks at some islands. Japan is seeking ways to protect the integrity of its vast ocean territories as sea levels are…

Hamilton May 30, 2020 (Thomson StreetEvents) -- Edited Transcript of Golden Ocean Group Ltd earnings conference call or presentation Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 1:00:00pm GMTGolden Ocean Group Limited - Chief Commercial Officer of Golden Ocean Shipping Co Pte. Ltd.* J. MintzmyerLadies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and…

North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung did not have the ability to teleport, state media finally admitsNorth Korean official media is known for outlandish claims about its ruling familyBut a state newspaper said Kim Il Sung was not capable of 'shrinking the earth'Analysts say it is a sign that Kim…

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un resurfaced once again this weekend to chair a meeting on the country’s nuclear weapons program, state media announced on Sunday. State television showed footage of masked regime officials greeting Kim as he entered the meeting of Central Military Commission to discuss enlarging North Korea’s armed…

Donald Trump's administration has discussed holding the first US nuclear test since 1992.Washington, United States: President Donald Trump's administration has discussed holding the first US nuclear test since 1992 as a potential warning to Russia and China, the Washington Post reported Friday.Such a test would be a significant departure from…

Trans-Pacific View | Diplomacy | East Asia Present tensions between Washington and Beijing shouldn’t be allowed to derail work toward peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadTo say Sino-American relations have taken a precipitous dip since the onset of the coronavirus crisis would be an understatement.…

Japan made an explicit claim to ownership of a group of Russian-held islands off Hokkaido in an annual foreign policy report released Tuesday, after refraining from doing so last year amid hopes of breaking a deadlock in the territorial dispute.The issue has prevented the two countries from signing a World…

(CNN)President Donald Trump said Monday that he would prefer for government employees to wash Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's dishes if his wife or son was not there to do so.While the dish-washing assertion was not among those reportedly investigated by the State Department inspector general fired by Trump last…