Seoul (S.Korea), Nov. 19 (ANI): US President Barack Obama said Thursday the United States has begun talking with allies about fresh punishment against Iran for defying efforts to halt its nuclear ...

Seoul, Nov. 19 (ANI): Having arrived from Chinese capital Beijing, US President Barack Obama said here on Thursday that he will send a special envoy to North Korea next month to ...

Seoul, Nov 19 (DPA) US President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak Thursday urged North Korea to return to nuclear talks, suggesting a "grand bargain" solution to ...

Seoul, Nov 19 (DPA) US President Barack Obama said Thursday he planned to send his special envoy to North Korea Dec 8 in a bid to restart stalled multinational talks to ...

Seoul, Nov 19 (DPA) US President Barack Obama met his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak in Seoul Thursday on the final leg of his Asian tour. At the top of the ...

Beijing, Nov 19 (IANS) China and North Korea will enhance military cooperation to boost peace and stability in the region, officials of both the countries said. China and North Korea are friends ...

Beijing, Nov 18 (DPA) US President Barack Obama met Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday as he wound up a first visit to China that featured pledges from both nations to develop ...

Beijing, Nov.17 (ANI): Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday called on his American counterpart Barack Obama to join him in the camapign to end protectionism. President Hu said the two sides would ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Communist leaders from 60 countries will attend the 11th Communist and Workers Parties' International Meeting, to be held here Nov 20-22, a senior communist leader said Monday. ...

US President Barack Obama in order to have greater US engagement in Asia, pragmatic cooperation with China,insist to push for deeper trade ties with the region. Engagement with Asia, President Barack Obama said ...

Tokyo, Nov.14 (ANI): The United States wants stronger and improved ties with China, said President Barack Obama in a wide-ranging speech on his first trip to Asia as president. "I know there ...

Washington, Nov 14 (DPA) The US urged North Korea Friday to avoid taking any provocative steps following a clash earlier in the week between North and South Korean warships. Ahead of President ...

Tokyo, Nov 13 (DPA) US President Barack Obama and the Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Friday warned North Korea and Iran against pursuing their nuclear weapons programmes. A joint declaration issued after ...

By Madhuri Dey San Francisco, Nov. 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The International Documentary Association is going to screen a special tribute to two journalists of Current Media, Laura Ling and Euna Lee in a ...

Seoul, Nov 13 (DPA) North Korea warned Friday it would use "merciless" military action to defend its sea border with South Korea. In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News ...

Vancouver, Nov 12(ANI): The 76 Sri Lankans, detained on a migrant ship off the West Coast last month, may be the first wave of defeated LTTE fleeing to Canada, a terrorism expert ...

Seoul, Nov. 11 (ANI): South Korean troops went on high alert on Wednesday in anticipation of a possible retaliation by North Korea after one of its navy ships was nearly destroyed in ...

Washington, Nov 11 (DPA) The US urged North Korea Tuesday to avoid taking any steps that could escalate tensions following the gunfight that broke out between North and South Korean naval ...

Seoul, Nov 9 (IANS) The US and North Korea will hold talks in December, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Monday citing a senior official here. "The bilateral meeting appears most ...

Islamabad, Nov 6 (ANI): Disgraced Pakistan nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has laughed off claims that his name does not exist on the Exit Control List (ECL). "It is a joke to ...

Washington, Nov.4 (ANI): North Korea's official news agency Yonhap has reported that the country has finished reprocessing 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods, which are likely to provide enough plutonium for at least ...

Pyongyang, Nov 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) North Korea said on Tuesday that, ‘it has reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and extracted enough plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile’, raising the stakes in ...

Seoul, Nov 2 (DPA) The US needs to decide whether it wants to engage in bilateral talks with North Korea on the country's nuclear weapons programme, the foreign ministry in Pyongyang said ...

Pyongyang, Nov 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Speculation has been rife that Kim Jong Il has a very good-look alike who has been attending official functions on his behalf, as he himself is ...

Tokyo, Oct.31 (ANI): A Japanese university professor has claimed that former US President Bill Clinton met a fake North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in August this year. He also said that the ...

Seoul, Oct 26 (DPA) South Korea Monday offered North Korea its first food aid in nearly two years as part of a recent cautious rapprochement between the two neighbours. South Korea made the ...

Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 24 (IANS) The 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit here issued a statement Saturday urging North Korea to fully comply with UN resolutions. "We urged the DPRK (North ...

Seoul, Oct 21 (DPA) The danger posed by North Korea has grown as it develops its nuclear and missile programmes and engages in proliferation, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday on ...

Hamburg, Oct 15 (DPA) After Wednesday's qualifying rounds, following are 23 teams that have qualified for the 2010 World Cup football finals in South Africa: Africa: Country ...

Seoul, Oct 15 (DPA) North Korea Thursday accused the South Korean military of sending warships into its territorial waters off its west coast on several occasions. North Korea's naval command threatened military action ...