North and South Korea requested to field a unified team for the semi-finals of the championships, which will be played against Japan or Ukraine on Friday in Halmstad, Sweden. The last time that a unified Korea team played the world table tennis championships was 1991 in Chiba, Japan where women’s team shocked defending champions China to win the gold … Read more
Guterres said the requests need approval from the U.N. Security Council, but he wanted to cooperate to build peace on the Korean peninsula and would assign a U.N. official in charge of arms control to cooperate with South Korea, the Blue House spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom added. Several days before the inter-Korean summit on Friday (April … Read more
Kim also vowed during his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday to shut down the North’s nuclear test site in May and disclose the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul’s presidential office said. While there are lingering questions about whether North Korea will ever decide to fully … Read more
The Secretary of State who till last week was the CIA Director had quietly travelled to North Korea early this month and had a meeting with Kim. “I was there (in North Korea) on a mission. I was aiming to achieve the goals that the president set forward to me, it became clear that I … Read more
Kim made the comments during his summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday at a border truce village, where he also expressed optimism about his anticipated meeting with Donald Trump, saying the U.S. president will learn he’s “not a person” to fire missiles toward the United States, Moon’s spokesman Yoon Young-chan said. Moon … Read more
Pompeo made the remarks in an exclusive interview with ABC News, extracts of which were released on Saturday (April 28) ahead of its broadcast on Sunday. Pompeo, who is currently in the Middle East on his first trip as Washington’s chief diplomat, described Kim as “very well prepared” during their secret meeting, which took place … Read more
United Nations: India violated the United Nations Security Council sanctions on North Korea in 2017, sometimes even going against its own government orders, by importing metals worth $2.2 million and exporting jewellery valued at more than $578,000, according the UN panel monitoring the sanctions. Some of the imports and exports continued even after the Indian … Read more