April 25, 2013
WASHINGTON--The United States and South Korea are extending for two years their current civilian nuclear agreement and postponing a contentious decision on whether Seoul will be allowed to reprocess spent fuel as it seeks to expand its atomic energy industry.
April 24, 2013
After keeping a low diplomatic profile since taking office, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has begun to show his true colors as a nationalist, threatening to further exacerbate Japan's difficulties with China and South Korea.
April 23, 2013
SEOUL/ GENEVA--North Korea insisted on April 23 that it be recognized as a nuclear weapons state, a demand the United States promptly dismissed as "neither realistic nor acceptable."
April 23, 2013
BEIJING--China's top general said on April 22 that a fourth North Korean nuclear weapons test is a possibility that underscores the need for fresh talks between Pyongyang and other regional parties.
April 22, 2013
South Korea’s foreign minister will cancel his trip to Tokyo to protest visits to a shrine symbolizing Japan’s militaristic past by Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and other Cabinet members, sources said April 22.
April 20, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea reiterated on April 20 that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a U.S. condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss disarmament.
April 20, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--No red carpet. No sleek limousines dropping off celebrities dressed to impress.
April 20, 2013
Although North Korea continues to have ballistic missiles ready to launch, the reclusive nation indicated it was open to dialogue with close ally China and may be toning down its belligerent rhetoric.
April 20, 2013
BEIJING--China will send its special envoy on North Korea to the United States next week for talks on maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, the foreign ministry said on April 19.
April 20, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea--North Korea's newest batch of future soldiers--scrawny 11-year-olds with freshly shaved heads--punch the air as they practice taekwondo on the grounds of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School. Students and teachers here say they're studying harder these days to prepare for a fight.
April 19, 2013
A movie about the true-life story of the unified Korean team that won the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba will be released in Japanese theaters on April 20.
April 19, 2013
WASHINGTON--The top U.S. military officer, Gen. Martin Dempsey, is adding a South Korea stop to his previously announced trip to China to meet face to face with his South Korean counterpart on the North Korea situation.
April 18, 2013
The standoff over sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands appears to be impeding plans for a trilateral summit between Japan, China and South Korea.
April 18, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea offered the United States and South Korea a list of conditions for talks, including the lifting of U.N. sanctions, signaling a possible end to weeks of warlike hostility on the Korean peninsula.
April 18, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--The South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in the Kaesong industrial complex, a symbol of economic collaboration between the rival Koreas that is now shuttered by the North, have little more than hope to cling to as assembly lines sit idle day after day.
April 17, 2013
SEOUL--Asked if there might be war, the 40ish woman with the spangly purple shirt laughed out loud. She waved her hands back and forth, as if whisking away a pesky insect.
April 17, 2013
PAJU, South Korea--An electricity cable running from South Korea over the border into North Korea is one of last lifelines for more than 200 South Korean workers at a joint industrial park that North Korea has shut down amid fears of war.
April 16, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea issued new threats against South Korea on April 16, vowing "sledge-hammer blows" of retaliation if South Korea did not apologize for anti-North Korean protests the previous day when the North was celebrating the birth of its founding leader.
April 16, 2013
SEOUL--Fewer Japanese are going to South Korea amid heightened international tensions over talk of war by North Korea.
April 15, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea celebrated the 101st anniversary of its founder's birth on April 15 with no signs of tension easing on the peninsula after it rejected talks with South Korea aimed at normalizing ties and re-opening a joint industrial park.