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S. Korea’s Moon to Send Special Envoys to North on Monday

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send a team of special envoys -- including Seoul's spy chief -- to the North on Monday to push for talks between Washington and Pyongyang on nuclear weapons. The delegation, announced by Moon's office on Sunday, is the latest chapter in a remarkable Olympics-driven ...

March 4, 2018

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Seoul Says US Should Lower ‘Threshold for Talks’ with N. Korea

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States to “lower the threshold for talks” with the North on Monday as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse tensions. Moon has sought to use the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that ended on Sunday to open ...

February 26, 2018

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S. Korea’s Moon Says ‘Too Early’ for Pyongyang Summit

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Saturday said it was too early to think about a summit with North Korea despite the Olympic-driven rapprochement with its nuclear-armed neighbor. Moon last week received an invitation from the North’s leader Kim Jong Un for a summit in Pyongyang. The invitation was extended ...

February 17, 2018

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Kim Jong Un Invites South’s Moon to Pyongyang

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited the South’s President Moon Jae-in for a summit in Pyongyang, Seoul said Saturday. The invitation, delivered by Kim’s visiting sister Kim Yo Jong, said Kim was willing to meet the South’s leader “at the earliest date possible”, said a spokesman for the ...

February 10, 2018

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bahram Ghasemi

Iran Summons South Korean Envoy over Smartphone Ban for Iranian Athletes

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned South Korean’s ambassador to protest the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers’ move to exclude Iranian athletes from the list of competitors receiving smartphones because of what they have cited UN sanctions. According to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi, South Korea’s ambassador to Tehran was summoned to ...

February 9, 2018

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong

Kim Jong Un’s Sister Arrives in South Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister landed in the South Friday, the first member of Pyongyang’s ruling dynasty to set foot in its rival since the Korean War. Kim Yo Jong was part of a high-level diplomatic delegation led by the North’s ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam ...

February 9, 2018

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North Korea Says ‘No Intention’ to Meet US in South

North Korea has no intention to meet US officials during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. The nuclear-armed North is on an Olympics-linked publicity drive — sending a troupe of performers, hundreds of female cheerleaders, and the sister of leader Kim Jong Un to ...

February 8, 2018

World

South Korea Warns: Use of Nuclear Weapon ‘Suicidal’ for North Korea

South Korean Defense Minister warned that the use of a nuclear weapon by Pyongyang against South Korea or the US will be “suicidal” for the country. “The North Korean regime will probably be removed from the map if it uses developed nuclear weapons against South Korea or the United States,” ...

January 29, 2018

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Seoul Demands N. Korea Explain Cancelled Arts Delegation Visit

South Korea has urged North Korea to explain why it abruptly suspended plans to send a delegation to prepare cultural performances during the Winter Olympics, its unification minister said Saturday. The North had planned to send a seven-member advance team headed by the leader of an all-female Western-style band to ...

January 20, 2018

World

N. Korea Names Delegates for inter-Korean Talks

North Korea has named its delegation for a rare high-level meeting with the South this week, the unification ministry in Seoul said Sunday, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cautiously welcomed the talks. The two Koreas agreed Friday to hold their first official dialogue in more than two years and ...

January 7, 2018