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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hong Kong, Oct 28 (DPA) Luxury hotel chain Ritz-Carlton is to open the world's tallest hotel in Hong Kong in 2010 with its top floor on the 118th storey, a news report ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seoul, Oct 14 (IANS) North Korea Wednesday expressed regret for its abrupt release of dam water Sep 6 that led to the death of six South Koreans, Xinhua reported. North Korea's remark came ...

Seoul, Oct 13 (DPA) North Korea Tuesday agreed to meet South Korea this week for talks, but was at the same time preparing new missile tests, South Korean media reports said. The two ...

Pyongyang, Oct 4 (Xinhua) Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrived here Sunday on a three-day visit and was greeted at the airport by North Korean premier Kim Jong Il. Wen arrived at Sunan ...

New Delhi/Kochi, Oct 4 (IANS) A probe team has found nothing "incriminating" on board a Pakistan-bound North Korean ship, which was detained off the Kerala coast for anchoring in Indian waters without ...

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) A North Korean ship headed for Pakistan has been detained off the Kerala coast by the navy and the Coast Guard after it anchored in Indian waters ...

Seoul, Oct. 1 (ANI): South Korea said Thursday the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s rejection of the so-called "grand bargain," which Seoul proposed to Pyongyang as a measure to end the ...

Seoul, Sep 26 (RIA Novosti) Hundreds of North and South Koreans separated by the Korean War (1950-53) met north of the border Saturday in the first such reunion in two years, a ...

Pyongyang, Sep. 18 (ANI): North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Il on Friday met with Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy, Dai Bingguo, in Pyongyang. According to Xinhua, Dai delivered Hu's letter to ...

Washington, Sep 16 (DPA) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested the US is prepared to engage in direct talks with North Korea to encourage the communist country to rejoin negotiations over ...

New York, Sep 15 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has selected a group of highly qualified people to monitor sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on North Korea, a US ...

Pyongyang, Sep. 13 (ANI): North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reportedly instructed party and military leaders to start preparing for a third nuclear test with the use of enriched uranium. Fox News ...

Washington, Sep 12 (DPA) The US is willing to hold direct talks with North Korea in order to bring it back to the negotiating table to end its nuclear weapons programme. US State ...

Seoul, Sep 8 (DPA) South Korea Tuesday demanded an apology from North Korea for what it said was the unannounced release of water from a dam that created a wave of water ...

Pyongyang, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla has concluded his three-day official visit to North Korea Saturday. Parrilla's visit to Pyongyang has helped to continue the high-level political dialogue ...

Pyongyang, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Ministers of North Korea and Cuba have held talks here. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla Bruno arrived in Pyongyang from China Thursday along with a Cuban ...