SEOUL : North and South Korea struck Monday a patchy agreement to hold a high-level meeting in Seoul, following marathon talks aimed at rebuilding trust after months of soaring tension and threats of nuclear war.Sunday’s preparatory talks, held in the border truce village of Panmunjom where ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart on Wednesday that Beijing is willing to help reconciliation between South and North Korea, the foreign ministry said.“China is willing to provide the necessary assistance to advance South-North reconciliation and ...

The top nuclear envoys of the rival Koreas will discuss terms for restarting long-dormant six-nation nuclear talks during a rare meeting in Beijing this week, a South Korean official said Sunday. North Korea abruptly walked out of the nuclear negotiations in April 2009 and prospects for their ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il who is traveling across Russia in his armored train visited the largest hydropower plant in Russia's Far East on Sunday. Russian presidential envoy in the Far-Eastern Federal District Viktor Ishayev and Amur Region governor Oleg Kozhemyako gave him a short tour of ...

South Korean and U.S. forces have downgraded their defensive alert against the North based on intelligence that Pyongyang has relaxed the standby status of military units on the west coast, a news report said on Friday. The North Korean units, including artillery bases likely to have been involved ...

South and North Korea in rare talks on Wednesday agreed in principle to hold reunions for separated families around the traditional Thanksgiving holiday in October, pool reports said. Reporting from the talks at the North's Mount Kumgang resort, Yonhap news agency said Red Cross officials from the ...

South Korea has accepted a North Korean proposal that the two countries hold military talks, a Defense Ministry official said Saturday, amid continuing tensions on the divided peninsula. Ties between the two countries, which are still technically at war, have soured since South Korea's pro-U.S. ...