Korean Peace Talks

North Korea is nearing completion on a giant new facility that could be used to assemble, store and test its most powerful nuclear missiles. The base, under construction at Sil-li near the capital city of Pyongyang, features a rail line connecting to nearby missile factories, three construction hangars and a large…

China’s foreign ministry says veteran diplomat Ji Chaozhu, who provided English translation for leaders from Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping and served as a U.N. undersecretary, has diedMay 7, 2020, 1:06 PM3 min readBEIJING -- Ji Chaozhu, a veteran Chinese diplomat who provided English translation for leaders including Mao Zedong…

BEIJING (AP) — Ji Chaozhu, a veteran Chinese diplomat who provided English translation for leaders including Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping and served as an undersecretary of the United Nations, has died, the foreign ministry said. He was 90.Ji also served as ambassador to Britain over the course of a…

Chinese officials are bracing for “a rising wave of hostility…that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation,” Reuters reports this morning off an internal report from a Chinese think tank (the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations) affiliated with the Ministry of State Security.  About the rising wave of…

SEOUL, South Korea — Was it an accident? Or did North Korean soldiers fire at a South Korean guard post on purpose? The U.S.-led United Nations Command sent a team to the tense Korean border area Monday to investigate whether the exchange of fire the day before violated the armistice…

North and South Korea exchange gunfire across DMZ days after Kim Jong Un reappears North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cuts a ribbon to open a fertizler factory in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on Saturday, May 2, 2020. His sister, Kim Yo Jong, watches at…

Britain reveals 213 more COVID-19 deaths in preliminary figures as study claims 7% - 4.5million people - in UK have ALREADY had disease but only one in FIVE have symptoms Hospitals in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have confirmed the deaths of a further 213 people while a blood-testing…

Quarantine has not been a time for rest and relaxation for entrepreneur and busy mom Kimora Lee Simmons.The mother of five is lockdown with her children while still running her successful businesses from home and working to help those most impacted by the coronavirus crisis.Simmons sat down exclusively to talk…

(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea’s government has dismissed rumors that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in fragile condition, as speculation about his health intensifies amid the North’s silence on his whereabouts. There are concerns, particularly in Seoul and Washington, about what would happen to North Korea and…

South Korea’s government has dismissed rumors that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in fragile condition, as speculation about his health intensifies amid the North’s silence on his whereabouts.There are concerns, particularly in Seoul and Washington, about what would happen to North Korea and its nuclear program if anything…