The United States is "very actively" trying to persuade North Korea to come back to negotiations, South Korea's national security adviser said on Sunday, as a year-end North Korean deadline for U.S. flexibility approaches.
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Numerous reports have been written about Turkey's nuclear ambitions. A New York Times article on 20 October 2019 held that these ambitions date back to the 1970s.
As far as the pre-21st century period is concerned, the reports lack reliable (...)
North Korea on Thursday fired two projectiles toward its eastern sea, an apparent resumption of weapons tests aimed at ramping up pressure on Washington over a stalemate in nuclear negotiations, according to officials in South Korea and Japan.
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Argentina's candidate Rafael Grossi on Tuesday secured the necessary two-thirds in a vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation Board of Governors to become its next director general, diplomats said.
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The international community needs to revise its deterrence strategies and examine whether economic solutions are the correct way to address political problems, many commentators say. It needs to look for alternative policies to replace the existing (...)
South Korea's national soccer team described their World Cup qualifier against North Korea in Pyongyang as a "rough" match played under strange conditions that may be raised with FIFA.
The historic match ended in a scoreless draw Tuesday at huge Kim (...)
A growing corruption scandal involving a newly-appointed justice minister is bringing South Koreans from both ends of the political spectrum into the streets in numbers rarely seen since protests helped bring down former leader Park Geun-hye in (...)
South Korea said Thursday it's unclear if North Korea will allow a live broadcast when it hosts the South's national soccer team for a World Cup qualifier in Pyongyang next Tuesday.
Seoul's Unification Ministry, which deals with inter-Korean (...)
Japanese authorities said they rescued "dozens'' of North Korean fishermen after their boat collided with a Japanese patrol vessel and sank Monday in areas crowded with poachers.
Coast Guard officials earlier said that about 20 North Korean (...)
Working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have broken off, North Korea's top negotiator said late on Saturday, dashing prospects for an end to months of stalemate.
The talks, at an isolated conference (...)
US and North Korean officials arrived to begin nuclear talks at an isolated conference centre on the outskirts of Stockholm on Saturday, in an attempt to end months of stalemate.
The meeting will be the first formal working-level talks since U.S. (...)
Britain, France and Germany have called for a Security Council meeting on North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches, which are a violation of UN sanctions.
South Africa's UN Ambassador Jerry Matjila is the current council president and he told (...)
North Korea and the United States have agreed to hold working-level talks on Oct. 5, North Korea's state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday, a development that would break months of stalemate since a failed summit in February.
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North Korea decried the stalled state of its nuclear standoff with the United States and told the international community Monday that the fault lies with Washington's ``political and military provocations.''
``It depends on the US,'' North Korean (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced Iran's "bloodlust" and called on other nations to join the United States to apply pressure on Iran after attacks on Saudi oil facilities, but said there is a path to peace.
"America knows that while (...)
President Donald Trump took center stage at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver a strong defense of nationalism while exhorting the world to act against Iran's "bloodlust'' and rising aggression.
The president called on the global (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser said on Sunday that White House Asia policy adviser Matt Pottinger would become his top deputy.
Robert O'Brien made the announcement on Air Force One as Trump flew from Ohio to New York, where (...)
Faced with growing tumult at home and abroad, President Donald Trump heads into his three-day visit to the United Nations this week hoping to lean on strained alliances while fending off questions about whether he sought foreign help to damage a (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August amid stalled denuclearisation talks, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August amid stalled denuclearisation talks, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources.
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The U.S. Treasury on Friday announced sanctions on three hacking groups it said were sponsored by North Korea that were allegedly involved in the "WannaCry" ransomware attacks and had perpetrated cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.
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Asian markets traded mixed Wednesday afternoon while investors await the European central bank's interest rate decision this week.
Mainland Chinese shares were mainly lower by the afternoon, with the Shenzhen component declining 0.45 percent and the (...)
President Donald Trump abruptly announced in a tweet Tuesday that he has asked national security adviser John Bolton to resign, noting that he “strongly disagreed with many” of Bolton's suggestions “as did others in the administration.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was considering five “very highly qualified” people to replace John Bolton as his national security adviser.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Bolton, who he abruptly fired on (...)
North Korea fired a new round of short-range projectiles on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, only hours after it signaled a new willingness to resume stalled denuclearization talks with the United States.
The launches were detected early in the (...)
