Korean Peace Talks

Since the end of 2017, high tensions on the Korean Peninsula have given way to a remarkable and historic bout of diplomacy. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and, in a historic first…

SEOULPresident Donald Trumps hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, arrived here Tuesday with a daunting task: persuade South Koreas dovish President Moon Jae-in not to abandon a vital intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan in his zeal for permane…

By Jonathan Landay ASPEN, Colo. (Reuters) - A top South Korean official on Saturday said a U.S.-South Korean military exercise would go ahead as planned next month, denying Pyongyang's charges that holding it would breach an agreement made between U.S. Presi…

Seoul: North Korea's state media has slammed Japan for its recent trade restrictions against Seoul over wartime slavery disputes, accusing Tokyo of "destroying the trend of peace" on the Korean peninsula. After South Korea's high court ordered Japanese firms …

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea's state media has slammed Japan for its recent trade restrictions against Seoul over wartime slavery disputes, accusing Tokyo of "destroying the trend of peace" on the Korean peninsula. After South Korea's high court ordered Japanes…

It’s been nearly three years since Barack Obama warned Donald Trump that the biggest danger he’d face would be North Korea’s nuclear weapons. Since then, Trump’s met three times with the North Korean dictator, including a made-for-TV visit to the DMZ; cultiva…

The Korean War is sometimes called Americas forgotten war but that title really now belongs to the Afghanistan conflict, soon to be 18 years old. Several hundred thousand Americans have served there since October 2001; more than 2,000 have died. The war has c…

The U.S. military has verified that North Korea has a missile capable of striking anywhere on the U.S. mainland. The Hwaseong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile has an estimated range of 8,000 miles, U.S. Forces Korea certified in its 2019 Strategic Dige…

By turning established diplomatic practice on its head and making an unscheduled stop to shake hands with Kim Jong Un in the DMZ, President Trump demonstrated his readiness to go the extra mile and beyond to meet the challenge his predecessor, Barack Obama, t…

On July 11, 2019, the U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, will meet in Berlin with Lee Do-hoon, South Koreas special representative on peace and security, and other representatives from the European Union to advance our shared efforts…