North Korea
June 18, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes any dialogue between the United States and North Korea should focus on the goal of denuclearizing the Korean...
June 17, 2013
BEIJING--China's Foreign Ministry will hold a strategic dialogue with North Korea this week following Pyongyang's surprise offer of new talks with the U.S., a ministry...
June 16, 2013
PYONGYANG--North Korea's top governing body on June 16 proposed high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States in an appeal sent just days after calling off talks ...
June 14, 2013
U.S. President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart to exercise strategic self-restraint over China’s pursuit of maritime interests at their recent meeting in Southern...
June 14, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will shore up his diplomatic team by appointing a diplomat who worked closely with him on the North Korean abduction issue a decade ago as the top...
June 14, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea's former spy chief has been indicted on charges of meddling in last year's presidential election by ordering an online smear campaign against opposition...
June 13, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hit back at former high-ranking Foreign Ministry official Hitoshi Tanaka's criticism of the current administration's "rightward shift."
June 13, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea blamed the South on June 13 for scuttling fresh dialogue that aimed to ease tensions between the rival Koreas, saying Seoul deliberately torpedoed...
June 12, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea dismantled the meeting table, pulled down the placards and rolled up the red carpet. Its intended guest, North Korea, has stopped answering the phone.
June 12, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea's prison population has swelled in recent years with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according...
June 11, 2013
SEOUL--The Koreas' first high-level talks in years have been scrapped because of a stalemate over who will lead each delegation, South Korea said June 11, a day before they...
June 10, 2013
NEW YORK--Despite protestations of innocence, China should have known that the vehicles exported to North Korea in 2011 were capable of carrying and launching ballistic...
June 10, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--North and South Korea agreed on June 10 to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent...
June 09, 2013
RANCHO MIRAGE, California--U.S. President Barack Obama confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping over allegations of cyber theft on June 8 but they agreed at a shirtsleeves...
June 09, 2013
SEOUL--Government delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks on June 9 at a “truce village” on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground-rules...
June 08, 2013
French President Francois Hollande expressed hope that Japan and China will mend their strained bilateral ties, just as France and Germany reconciled after World War II.
June 07, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea said it would reopen a Red Cross hotline with South Korea on June 7 and invited officials from Seoul to talks over the weekend, a further sign Pyongyang...
June 07, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet on June 7 approved legislation to set up a national security council, moving to strengthen the premier's grip on foreign policy in the face...
June 06, 2013
SEOUL--North and South Korea on June 6 agreed to hold talks on reopening a jointly run factory complex and other cross-border issues, after months of deteriorating relations...
June 06, 2013
WASHINGTON--China's growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between ...