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Vietnamese FM visits North Korea ahead of Kim-Trump summit
Vietnam's foreign minister, Pham Binh Minh is visiting North Korea from February 12th to 14th, ahead of this month's planned summit in Hanoi between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump. While no details have been announced, the spokesperson for Vietnam's foreign ministry said via Twit...
2019-02-12 12:30:39 KST -
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N. Korea, U.S. working to forge deal on Yeongbyeon Nuclear Complex
With only two weeks remaining until the second North Korea-U.S. summit, a key question remains: will North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump forge a deal that can satisfy both sides? North Korea and the U.S. are searching for a balance between what Pyeongyang should do to fulfill its commit...
2019-02-12 12:29:39 KST -
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Seoul selected as candidate city for joint Olympic bid with N. Korea
The Korean Sports & Olympic Committee on Monday, announced that Seoul was chosen as the candidate city for the 2032 Summer Games at its general assembly at the National Training Center in Jincheon, Chungcheongbuk-do Province. The capital earned 34 out of 49 votes from the committee members. Before the vote,...
2019-02-12 10:02:34 KST -
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Russia considers sending 50,000 tons of wheat to North Korea as part of humanitarian aid
Russia is considering sending 50-thousand tons of wheat to North Korea as part of humanitarian aid. Citing a Russian lawmaker, the Interfax news agency said such measure comes at the request of Pyeongyang, which explained it's still trying to cope with natural disasters. According to a UN report in Decemb...
2019-02-12 10:01:59 KST -
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City of Seoul plans to boost educational exchanges with N. Korea
The nation's capital is working to increase exchanges between the two Koreas for the public by planning field trips to the North for grade schoolers. The superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, Cho Hee-yeon, will be crossing the border to visit Geumgangsan Mountain for two days starting Tuesda...
2019-02-11 16:32:19 KST -
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N. Korea's nuclear sites must be inspected by experts from nuclear powers: Russian Amb.
Experts from nuclear powers should carry out inspections of the North's nuclear sites. That's coming from Russia's Ambassador to Pyeongyang, Alexander Matsegora said in an interview with Sputnik, that experts from Washington, Beijing and Moscow need to verify the sites, because the International Ato...
2019-02-11 14:48:31 KST -
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[ISSUE TALK] Hanoi confirmed as North Korea-U.S. summit venue... more preparatory talks lined up
Joining us today to give his thoughts on these latest developments, we have with us Dr. Woo Jung-yeop, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute here in Korea. 1 - There was much movement over the weekend. Let's start with the announcement of the location for the North Korea-U.S. summit; Trump confirmed on ...
2019-02-11 12:40:34 KST -
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U.S. senators skeptical about chance for concrete progress at 2nd North Korea-U.S. summit
There are now only a couple of weeks left until the 2nd North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi, but U.S. politicians seem to have low expectations, that's according to The Hill on Sunday. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said his bar is low, based on what he saw at the first ...
2019-02-11 12:38:42 KST -
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South, North Korean sports officials to meet with IOC chairman to discuss united Korea team, co-hosting of 2032 Olympics
The two Koreas are pushing to achieve cross-border unity in international sports. The South Korean minister of culture and sports, Do Jong-hwan , and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Il-guk , are planning to visit the Swiss city of Lausanne on Friday to meet the chief of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas...
2019-02-10 12:16:31 KST -
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U.S. nuclear enovy Stephen Biegun head backs to Washington after N. Korea talks
After attending working-level talks with North Korean officials earlier this week, the U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, headed back to Washington on Sunday. During a week-long stay on the Korean Peninsula, Biegun went to the North for three days of discussions about the upcoming Pyeongya...
2019-02-10 12:16:30 KST -
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Resumption of inter-Korean tour program hinges on second Kim-Trump summit
The success of the Kim-Trump summit scheduled to be held later this month in Hanoi, Vietnam could open up the possibility of South Korea resuming tours to North Korea's Geumgangsan Mountain. That's according to Bae Kook-hwan , CEO of Hyundai Asan, a Hyundai subsidiary set up to deal with inter-Korean businesses. H...
2019-02-10 09:57:12 KST -
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Biegun returns from Pyeongyang after three days of summit negotiations
Working level talks between North Korea and the U.S. for the second Kim-Trump summit have wrapped up and U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun is back in Seoul. For more, let's go straight to our Park Hee-jun who's at the foreign ministry. Hee-jun, what's the latest? Seoul's foreign ministry...
2019-02-08 18:43:06 KST
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