November 17, 2014 U.S. Summit on North-South Korea Relations Opens Academics, legislators and former government officials are trying to do what diplomats have so far failed to do: lay the foundation for lasting peace between North and South Korea, reunification of the two countries and, perhaps most importantly, nuclear disarmament.
November 17, 2014 U.S., North Korea Meet for Talks About Pyongyang's Nuclear Weapons Program U.S. diplomats arrived in Geneva on Sunday for talks with North Korean officials about Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, the second direct encounter between the two sides in less than three months.
November 17, 2014 South Korea's Lee Pushing for U.S. Trade Deal's Approval Dozens of South Korean opposition lawmakers and aides have been barricading a committee room to block approval of an ambitious free-trade deal that was ratified by the U.S. last month. A ruling party lawmaker, meanwhile, is staging a hunger strike in support of the deal.
November 17, 2014 Koreas to hold 2nd round of rare volcano talks South Korea's Unification Ministry says experts from the two Koreas will meet again for rare talks about research into an active volcano touted in the North as leader Kim Jong Il's birthplace.</...
November 17, 2014 North Korea Says It Has Detained a U.S. Citizen North Korea said Thursday that it had detained an American man for an unspecified crime and is preparing to indict him.
November 17, 2014 U.S. Charity Warns North Korea Food Will Run Out in June A U.S.-based charity that helped conduct a survey in North Korea is warning that food stocks will run out by mid-June and that, without urgent aid, people will starve.
November 17, 2014 Scientist: N. Korea Paid Pakistan for Nuclear Tech The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology.
November 17, 2014 Japan Urges U.S. Not to Give to North Korea Japanese lawmakers urged the United States on Wednesday not to give food aid to North Korea, saying the donations could ease pressure on Pyongyang to free Japanese citizens abducted decades ago.
November 17, 2014 Divided Koreas Resume Long-Stalled Talks The United States cautiously welcomed a thaw in tensions between North Korea and South Korea and also among China and its neighbors, while warning of more difficult diplomatic work ahead.
November 17, 2014 North Korea Demands Peace Treaty With U.S. North Korea demanded Wednesday that the United States sign a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War, as a senior North Korean diplomat visited New York to negotiate ways to restart six-nation nuclear disarmament talks.
