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Ivanka Trump is scheduled to have dinner with Moon on Friday, and Yonhap news agency cited the presidential Blue House as saying he was also likely to meet Pyongyang's delegation during its trip. (Photo: File)

Ivanka Trump, N Korean general to attend Winter Olympics closing ceremony

The Pyeongchang Games have become a venue for geopolitics as much as sports.

22 Feb 2018 7:43 PM

At a hearing to confirm nominees for top State Department roles, senators said they had been told by members of President Donald Trump's national security team that no such idea was even on the table. (Photo: File)

US lawmakers say, possibility of ‘bloody nose’ strike on N Korea zero

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has vowed to pursue a diplomatic solution.

16 Feb 2018 3:14 PM

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, second from right, applauds with Kim Yo-jong, third from right, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, during a performance of North Korea’s Samjiyon Orchestra at National Theatre in Seoul on Sunday.

Dragons’ dance to herald talks?

Moon had to deal with Shinzo Abe’s prod on military exercises in the spring and yet he ensured Japan was not offended in the Korean diplomatic dance.

13 Feb 2018 12:36 AM

Kim Yo-jong, top right, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, sits alongside Kim Yong-nam, president of the Presidium of North Korean Parliament, and behind U.S. Vice President Mike Pence as she watches the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Kim sister begins historic South Korea visit

For security reasons, few details of Ms Kim’s three-day itinerary have been made public.

10 Feb 2018 3:17 AM

In a diplomatic showdown at a UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, North Korea responded by blaming Washington for escalating confrontation. (Photo: File)

N Korea ‘months away’ from ability to strike US with nuclear weapon: envoy

North Korea accused the United States of seeking to aggravate the situation on the divided peninsula by ‘deploying large nuclear assets’.

07 Feb 2018 4:25 PM

Kim Yong-Nam will be the highest-level Northern official to visit the South since 2014.(Photo: AFP)

N Korea’s nominal head to visit S Korea, attend Winter Olympics opening ceremony

Kim Yong-Nam will be the most senior official from the North for years to travel to the other side of the Demilitarized Zone.

06 Feb 2018 11:28 AM

Trump has exchanged insults and threats with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and officials say he and his advisers have discussed a preventative strike against North Korea. (Photo: AP)

In his State of Union speech Trump calls N Korea’s leadership ‘depraved’

Trump offered no new prescription or specifics on how he intended to rein in North Korea.

31 Jan 2018 2:19 PM

Tillerson said, 'Moscow is not fully implementing the measures and may indeed be trying to undermine them, in particular by supplying fuel.'(Photo: AP)

Russia helping N Korea to evade sanctions to halt nuclear program: Tillerson

In 2017, Russia signed up to UN sanctions pushed by US as a way to force Kim Jong-Un's regime to come to table and negotiate disarmament.

19 Jan 2018 10:45 AM

Trump has pushed Xi to increase economic and political pressure on North Korea in the hopes of convincing it to stop the development of its nuclear weapons program. (Photo: AP)

‘Positive changes’ in Korean Peninsula, Xi Jinping tells Trump

Tensions have been high after North staged a flurry of nuclear and missile tests and traded threats of war and personal attacks with Trump.

16 Jan 2018 1:31 PM

Trump has derided the North Korean leader as a 'maniac' and referred to him disparagingly as 'little rocket man.' (Photo: AFP)

Trump denies saying he probably had good relationship with Kim Jong-Un

The White House released a portion of the audio from the interview that it said showed Trump said 'I’d.'

15 Jan 2018 6:42 PM

Another challenge in Vancouver will be the absence of China, which has significant influence in North Korea. (Photo: File)

China’s absence looms over Vancouver meet on how to pressure N Korea

The Vancouver meeting, co-hosted by Canada and the US, comes amid signs that tensions on the peninsula have eased, at least temporarily.

15 Jan 2018 12:37 PM

According to Putin, Kim is 'cleaning up the situation, smoothing it, calming it.' (Photo: AP)

Putin calls Kim ‘competent, mature leader’: N Korea interested in reducing tensions

In Putin's view, Kim Jong-Un has shown interest in calming down the tensions over its nuclear and long-range missile programs.

12 Jan 2018 12:00 PM

South Korea unification minister Cho Myung-Gyun (L) shakes hands with North Korean chief delegate Ri Son-Gwon (R) during their meeting at the border truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas. (Photo: AFP)

Signs of thaw on the Korean peninsula?

In this rapid unfolding of events both the US and China seem to have had only a marginal supportive role.

12 Jan 2018 1:00 AM

Deal on Olympics will do little to disarm North Korea

The meeting came after months of confrontation over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, with both parties seeking to dial down tensions.

11 Jan 2018 1:50 AM

Trump and Kim have exchanged insults ever since Trump took office, with Trump repeatedly calling Kim "rocket man" for testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. (Photo: File)

Would ‘absolutely’ talk to Kim Jong-un over phone, says Trump

Trump suggested the talks might lead to an easing of tensions and took credit for the diplomatic breakthrough.

07 Jan 2018 11:55 AM

Kim Jong-un in his new year’s speech to the country warned US claiming that he had a ‘nuclear button is on his desk at all times.’ (Photo: File)

North Korea fires missile which accidentally lands on its own city

Satellite images show a cleared ground indicating damages cause to a building and a greenhouse.

05 Jan 2018 4:32 PM

‘It is not an exaggeration to say that the security environment surrounding Japan is at its severest since World War Two. I will protect the people's lives and peaceful living in any situation,’ Shinzo Abe told a New Year news conference. (Photo: File)

Japan’s security endangered due to N Korea, situation like WW2: Shinzo Abe

Abe said Japan would take new steps to strengthen its defence posture but he did not go to specifics.

04 Jan 2018 4:31 PM

Vijayan even went on to say that North Korea fared better than China. (Photo: PTI)

N Korea ‘successfully defended against US pressure’, says Kerala CM

Trump and Kim are involved in a bitter war of words over latter's nuclear weapons programme.

04 Jan 2018 2:58 PM

Trump and Kim have exchanged repeated insults in recent months in a crisis over North Korea's program to develop nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching the United States, raising alarm worldwide. (Photo: File)

Americans should worry about Kim's mental health, not Trump’s: WH

Trump has at times appeared to dismiss the prospect of a diplomatic solution and both sides have threatened to destroy each other.

04 Jan 2018 2:03 PM

Earlier Tuesday, Trump sounded open to the possibility of an inter-Korean dialogue after Kim made a rare overture toward South Korea in a New Year's address. (Photo: File)

Trump may have nuclear button bigger than N Korea’s but there are rules

If the president were to order a strike, he would identify himself to military officials at the Pentagon with codes unique to him.

03 Jan 2018 3:17 PM

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