TEHRAN, Jul 12 - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged U.S. President Donald Trump to ease sanctions on North Korea during their meeting in Japan last month, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Jul 11 - North Korea has revised its constitution to make Kim Jong Un head of state, a promotion that could help normalize the isolated country’s diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.
TEHRAN, Jul 11 - North Korea has criticized the South’s acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets as an “extremely dangerous action” that could jeopardize inter-Korean relations.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - The United States says it hopes North Korea would freeze its nuclear program, a move that could be the start of a denuclearization process.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - The South Korean government has angrily denied claims by Japan that its is turning a blind eye to transfers of sensitive technology to North Korea, in defiance of United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - An Australian student who was held in North Korea for a week and then deported denied being a spy on Tuesday and expressed sorrow that he won't be able to return to finish his graduate studies at Kim Il Sung University.
TEHRAN, Jul 8 - The son of the highest-profile South Korean ever to defect to North Korea has arrived in the North to permanently resettle, the country's state media said. If confirmed, it would be an unusual case of a South Korean defecting to the impoverished, authoritarian North.
TEHRAN, Jul 5 - North Korea appears to have appointed a long-time veteran of international diplomacy as point man in the new round of denuclearisation talks with the United States, a diplomatic source in Seoul confirmed on Friday.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 - International Lawyer Barry Grossman believes that a recent US-North Korea agreement to resume nuclear talks is already a lost battle for Washington as Pyongyang refuses to disarm.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 -North Korea has reacted to a move by the United States to urge other countries to expel North Korean workers, saying Washington’s hostilities continue unabated even as US President Donald Trump seems to warm up to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 -An Australian student who was detained in North Korea has been released and has safely left the country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, Jul 2 -A special representative of the Swedish government has arrived in North Korea on a visit that is assumed to be related to the case of an Australian student who has been missing in the country for several days.
TEHRAN, Jul 1 -US National Security Adviser John Bolton has dismissed reports that the administration of President Donald Trump is considering agreeing to a “freeze” of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program as opposed to a more comprehensive denuclearization deal.
TEHRAN, July 1 - US President Donald Trump needs to deal with hawks like his national security adviser, John Bolton, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before being able to strike any deal with North Korea, says an American political analyst.
TEHRAN, Jun 30 -US President Donald Trump has traveled to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, where he is expecting to meet Kim Jong-un, after making a reportedly impromptu decision during a trip to South Korea to meet with the North Korean leader.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 - North Korea on Thursday warned the South to stop "meddling" in nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington, denying President Moon Jae-in's assertion that dialogue was under way between the two Koreas.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 -An Australian student has reportedly been detained in North Korea, with authorities in Canberra “urgently” seeking clarification on the issue.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 -A senior North Korean diplomat says the United States does not have much time left to develop a new strategy to revive talks with Pyongyang about the demilitarization of the Korean Peninsula.
TEHRAN, Jun 24 - US President Donald Trump says he sent North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a "very friendly letter" in response to birthday greetings he received last week from Kim, even as the two countries remain at odds over the future of Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
TEHRAN, Jun 24 - U.S. President Donald Trump will visit South Korea this weekend after an exchange of letters with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un boosted hopes for talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear program.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with South Korean President