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2 Koreas to Hold Senior-Level Meeting in Seoul
(SEOUL, South Korea) — North and South Korea agreed early Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after...
North Korea Says It’s Open to Talks with South
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) North Korea says it is open to holding talks with South Korea on reopening their jointly run factory park in the first public response...
China Frustration With North Korea Offers Hope for U.S.
(WASHINGTON) — China's growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding...
North Korea Puts Nuclear Threats on Hold in Favor of Business, Skiing and Mushrooms
Proving once again that the North Korean government is like New England’s weather -- if you don’t like it, wait a few minutes, allegedly uttered by Mark Twain --...
North Korea Proposes Working Level Talks with South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday proposed working-level talks with South Korea to be held in a border city on Sunday as the rivals look to mend...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Scenes from North Korea’s Kaesong Industrial Zone
Kaesong Industrial Zone, an area located in the Cold War-era DMZ between the two Koreas, has earned an estimated $2 billion a year in trade for the impoverished...
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Top 10 Innocents Abroad
Former President Bill Clinton's retrieval of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea captured the world's attention. But hordes of...
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Peering into the North Korean economy, via satellite
Satellites reveal North Korea's growing merchant class ...
North and South Korea, unable to agree on attendees, put off planned talks
The planned dialogue had sparked hopes for a thaw in relations on the Korean Peninsula, but the 11th-hour cancellation after North Korea withdrew highlighted the extent to which...
North Korea's Defiance Looms Over Talks With the South
Officials of both nations will meet in Seoul this week for their first high-level dialogue in six years amid signs that North Korea's traditional ally, China, has grown...
North and South Korea hold official talks
Talks on restoring suspended commercial links came after unexpected proposal from North Korea to open dialogue. ...
