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The Sixth Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was held from December 26 to 31 last year. December 26 was the day when the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of South and North Koreas crossed into each other’s countries.
At the beginning of (...)
North Korea’s provocative regime of missile testing has prompted the South to designate it as an enemy.
North Korea began 2023 as it had ended 2022 – with some characteristic sabre-rattling in the form of missile tests. Having launched more missiles in 2022 than in any other year, on the morning (...)
Kim Jong-un has continued to promote development of ballistic missiles as the main delivery vehicles of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from 2012. On October 10, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that seven times of launching drills were conducted by the tactical (...)
Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities are increasing, but there is limited international capacity for or interest in addressing them.
The details vary, but the pattern is immediately recognisable: a volley of missiles, followed by chilling new rhetoric. This time, North Korean state media said the (...)
North Korean despot and US president’s wildly different perceptions exposed in Hanoi.
As with many disastrous second dates, the collapse of Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un was made inevitable by the misreading of each other’s intentions at their first encounter.
Since their initial (...)
Real Denuclearisation and the Establishment of a Lasting Peace on the Korean Peninsula are Up to Us.
KPTU will continue to work for a peaceful and equal Korea
On June 12 Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People&rsquos Republic of the Korea and Donald (...)
Trump infuriated and insulted South Koreans when he said “they do nothing without our approval.”
As the two Koreas continue to move their peace process forward in the wake of their highly successful September summit in Pyongyang, the Trump administration, along with military-industrial think (...)
The inter-Korean summit held from September 18 to 20 in Pyongyang between heads of state Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un shows their willingness to maintain political initiative. It was held in a changing geostrategic context.
In a very volatile situation, the Korean leaders have taken the (...)
Bold proposals on demilitarization break the logjam with Washington.
Over three days of diplomacy and pageantry in Pyongyang this week, the leaders of North and South Korea put on a stunning display of national unity and purpose that sent an unmistakable message that the two Koreas have moved (...)
’Dream come true’ for Moon as Korean leaders make mountain pilgrimage
South Korean president’s visit to North concludes with highly symbolic trip to Mount Paektu.
Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, stepped into the shallow waters of Heaven Lake, regarded as the spiritual home of the Korean (...)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After holding consecutive summits with soaring but empty rhetoric, the two Korean leaders on their third try finally produced some substance.
The meeting in Pyongyang on Wednesday came as nuclear negotiations have faltered between the U.S. and North Korea, raising (...)
“LITTLE ROCKET MAN” is now, in Donald Trump’s tweetworld, “the very talented and smart leader who loves his people.” Even better, when Kim Jong-un speaks, “his people sit up and listen. I wish it was like that here.” Indeed.
To be fair, Trump is not solely responsible for the twisted form the debate (...)
The June 12th Singapore Summit between the US and the DPRK was an important, positive step towards the achievement of peace on the Korean Peninsula, normalized relations between the US and North Korea, and the reunification of Korea.
In the words of the Korean Public Service and Transport (...)
Relations between Washington et Pyongyang were radically modified during the Singapore summit of 12 June 2018, and it is good news. The dominant tone of the “serious” US and British press and the English language regional press was completely different. For the first, the Singapore summit was a (...)
Trump might get all the attention, but South Korean president Moon Jae-in is the real key to securing peace on the peninsula.
After weeks of hype and hope — and a bizarre cancellation that didn’t quite stick — the Singapore summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is now history. And history (...)
Sanctions against North Korea could be eased when substantive steps towards denuclearisation are taken, said South Korea’s Foreign Minister Ms Kang Kyung Wha to reporters, on June 18.
SEOUL - South Korea aims to declare a formal end to the Korean War by the end of this year and the leaders of (...)
South Korean President Moon Jae-in
I offer my heartfelt congratulations and welcome the success of the historic North Korea-United States summit.
When I met with Chairman Kim Jong Un at House of Unification (Tongilgak) in Panmunjeom on May 26, and when I spoke over the phone with President (...)
On June 12th, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. president Donald Trump met at the historical summit in Singapore, which concluded with the joint statement by both the leaders. In essence, this summit confirmed the spirit of the Panmoonjeon Declaration that had been signed at North-South (...)
As much of the world celebrates a modest step towards peace in Korea, Western pundits seem to be panicking.
On Tuesday, as Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un shook hands for their much-anticipated summit in Singapore, one Korean reporter observed a curious episode . Koreans watching the scene (...)
The US media response, from both liberals and conservatives, betrays a cynical disregard for South Korea.
It was an electrifying sight that captured the imagination of millions of people living on the crisis-weary Korean Peninsula but sent many Americans spinning into paroxysms of anger and cynicism, depending on their politics and knowledge of the rocky history of US relations with North and South Korea.
On Tuesday, President Trump and Kim Jong-un met and shook hands on Singapore’s resort (...)
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