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The Obama administration said Sunday it was receptive to North Korea's proposal for high-level talks, but wants "credible negotiations" that will lead to a nuclear-free North."Those talks have to be real. They have to be based on them living up to their obligations, to include on proliferation, on nuclear weapons, on smuggling and other things," said Denis McDonough, President Barack Obama's chief of staff."So we'll judge them by their actions, not by the nice words that we heard," he said.The National Defense Commission headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued a statement through state media proposing "senior-level" talks to ease tensions and discuss a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War."I will say that the bottom line is they're not going to be able to talk their way out of the very significant sanctions they're under now," McDonough told CBS' "Face the Nation."Tensions have risen as a result of North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket in December and a nuclear te...
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South Korea's top envoy on North Korea left on Tuesday for a meeting in Washington with his US and Japanese counterparts, two days after Pyongyang proposed direct, h...
A U.N. spokesman says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes any dialogue between the United States and North Korea should focus on the goal of denuclearizing the Ko...
An extraordinary row between South Korea and Iran highlights tensions in Asia's final World Cup qualifying group matches, with Australia also urging caution before t...
A cardinal rule in foreign policy is this: if your enemies are busy killing each other, don't step in and try to stop them. Yet, that's exactly what we would be doi...
South Korea has begun accepting bids from aircraft makers to supply 60 new fighter jets at an estimated cost of $7.3 billion (8.3 trillion won).Two arms procurement ...
The Koreas' first high-level talks in years have been scrapped because of a stalemate over who will lead each delegation, South Korea said Tuesday, a day before they...
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 ties that have plunged during re...
Britain had the Spice Girls. America had Destiny's Child. North Korea has ... the Moranbong Band?The five girls dancing on stage to catchy pop tunes while wearing gl...
North Korea says South Korean businessmen can enter a jointly run industrial park in the North that has been emptied since April after tensions between the two count...
A top U.S. national security official says President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping found "quite a bit of alignment" on the subject of North Korea and...
The U.S. says the only way to get a nuclear North Korea to disarm is for nations to "close ranks" and demand it.That's from the U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn Davie...
China says it will hold a strategic dialogue with North Korea this week following Pyongyang's surprise offer of new talks with the U.S.The Foreign Ministry announced...
A top North Korean negotiator has arrived at China's Foreign Ministry for strategic talks following a rough patch in relations between the communist allies and Pyong...
North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual...
North Korea's top governing body on Sunday proposed high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States in an appeal sent just days after calling off talks ...
North Korea's prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors...
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