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Koreas discuss family reunion, humanitarian issues at Red Cross talks

The two Koreas held Red Cross talks on Friday to address humanitarian issues on the Korean Peninsula including the revival of the reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.The meeting came as both sides hold a flurry of talks on various issues to implement the agreement reached between their leaders at the April 27 summit, for establishment of a permanent peace regime on the peninsula. The Panmunjeom Declaration states that the reunion event will fall on the occasion of the Aug. 15

Trump’s remark on US war remains fuels confusion

US President Donald Trump’s remark over the remains of US service members fueled confusion in South Korea, despite the president’s apparent attempt to correct his previous suggestion that the remains have been sent back from North Korea to the US. During his meeting with cabinet members Thursday, Trump said the remains of US troops missing in the Korean War were in the process of being returned to the US from North Korea. The president said Wednesday that the remains have been sent back. “And I

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North Korea
Pompeo to meet with N. Koreans at earliest possible date: State Department

WASHINGTON -- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with North Korean officials at the "earliest possible date" to follow up on last week's nuclear deal between the countries' leaders, the State Department said Thursday.Pompeo is expected to travel to North Korea within days to flesh out the agreement signed by US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at their summit in Singapore."Secretary Pompeo will be meeting with them and talking with them at the earliest possible

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North Korea
Koreas holding Red Cross talks to discuss family reunion, humanitarian issues

MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea -- The two Koreas are holding Red Cross talks on Friday to discuss organizing a reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War and other humanitarian issues.The talks started at around 10 a.m. at a hotel on Mount Kumgang on the North's scenic east coast, according to the unification ministry. South Korea's four-member delegation is led by Park Kyung-seo, head of the Korean Red Cross. The North sent a three-member delegation headed by Pak Yong-il, vice chairman

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North Korea
Trump: N. Korea has blown up 4 test sites

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said Thursday that North Korea has already destroyed four of its big test sites on the road to "total denuclearization."Trump was speaking at a Cabinet meeting following his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore last week.The two leaders agreed then that Kim would commit to "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula, while Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the regime."They've stopped the sending of miss

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North Korea
Moon vows to enhance trilateral economic cooperation with North Korea and Russia

South Korean president expresses hope for linking Trans-Siberian Railway to Busan at his speech before the Russian parliament.

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
Easy as A, B, Xi: China gives economic lessons to North Korea

Chinese President Xi Jinping has coached his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un on high-stakes diplomacy. Now he seems poised to give the young autocrat another lesson: how to reform a state-controlled economy while keeping an iron grip on power. Beijing has long pushed for Pyongyang to adopt similar measures to those that fuelled China's dizzying ascent from a communist backwater to one of the world's largest trading powers. But while the highly secretive, nuclear-armed North has been qui

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
North Korean airline plans new route to China's Xian

North Korea's national airline Air Koryo plans to open a new route linking Pyongyang and Xian in China, a staff member said Thursday, in the latest sign of the nuclear-armed state's possible emergence from isolation. An Air Koryo representative told AFP "there is a plan" for flights to the central Chinese city, a major tourist destination famous for its ancient Terracotta Warriors. But the staffer said he "did not know" whether the route would begin in July, as reported by the Xian Evening N

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
S. Korean detainees unlikely to be dealt at Red Cross talks

The release of six South Korean detainees in North Korea is unlikely to be discussed at Friday’s inter-Korean Red Cross talks, as the reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War is set to be at the top of the agenda. Friday’s talks are expected to address a clause inked in the agreement reached at the summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on April 27, when both vowed “to swiftly resolve the humanitarian issues that resulted from the div

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North Korea
North Korean summits bring sense of peace along DMZ border

PANMUNJEOM, North Korea -- Lt. Col. Hwang Myong Jin has been a guide on the northern side of the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas for five years. He says it’s gotten quieter here since the summits between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the presidents of South Korea and the United States, in perhaps the last place on earth where the Cold War still burns hot."A lot of things have changed. Listen to how quiet it is," he said as he stood on the balcony of a large building overlook

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
China set to loosen sanctions on N. Korea after Kim's visit

BEIJING -- China is apparently moving to ease sanctions on North Korea and strengthen bilateral economic cooperation, following the North's leader Kim Jong-un's most recent visit to Beijing.Signs of loosening sanctions are particularly noticeable in the fields of aviation and tourism.According to sources here on Thursday, the authorities of Xian, the capital of Shaanxi Province, have recently decided to open a direct aviation route to Pyongyang, the North's capital, in July this year. (Yonhap)Th

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
Spy agency warns of fraud schemes involving old N. Korean money

South Korea's spy agency on Thursday alerted the public to overseas fraud schemes selling defunct North Korean money, taking advantage of the country's recent move to reach out to the international community.The National Intelligence Service said crime rings in China and Southeast Asia have secured massive amounts of old North Korean bills and attempted to sell them on the premise that their value will jump once North Korea denuclearizes and its economy develops. Old North Korean currency bills

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
Trump: N. Korea has sent back remains of 200 US soldiers

WASHINGTON/SEOUL -- US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that North Korea has sent back the remains of 200 American soldiers who were killed in the 1950-53 Korean War.The repatriation is part of an agreement Trump signed with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at their historic summit in Singapore last week."Our great fallen heroes, the remains, in fact today already 200 have been sent back," Trump said at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, noting that he had "great chemistry" and "got along really

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
Discussions on lifting NK sanctions should wait until denuclearization: Seoul official

Discussions on easing sanctions on North Korea can take shape only when progress in its denuclearization materializes, a senior unification ministry official here said Thursday."I know that there are many people expecting (increased inter-Korean exchanges) but the reality is that I cannot talk only about good things," Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung told a forum in Seoul."Still, there are sanctions in place imposed by the international community, including the United States, against the

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea
Kim, Xi discuss strengthening strategic, tactical cooperation: NK media

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed ways to further strengthen strategic and tactical cooperation in their latest talks, North Korean state media reported Thursday.Kim wrapped up his two-day visit to Beijing on Wednesday, during which the leaders held two rounds of talks. It was his third visit in about three months."The top leaders of the DPRK and China exchanged serious views on the present situation and urgent international issues and discussed issues to

Jun 21, 2018
North Korea

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