Tag results for: North Korea

South Korea's Unification Ministry said that North Korea will likely scrap a 1991 inter-Korea agreement at the country's 14th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA). The agreement, Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-Aggression, and Exchanges and Cooperation between South and North Korea, said that inter-Korean "ties were designated as a 'special relationship' tentatively formed in the process of seeking reunification, not as state-to-state relations." At...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to extend the mandate of a panel of experts that monitored the enforcement of sanctions against North Korea. The council failed to pass a resolution to extend the panel's mandate of the Expert Panel by one year due to Russia's veto of it. In the resolution's vote, 13 countries voted to pass the...

South Korea's Foreign Ministry said officials from South Korea and the United States created a task force to bar North Korean missile and nuclear programs on Wednesday, March 27th. The initial meeting was held in Washington D.C., yesterday, March 26th, with over thirty officials working in intelligence, diplomacy, and maritime interdiction. The group discussed methods to prevent North Korea from obtaining...

On March 26, Kyodo News reported that North Korea state-run media had announced that it had rejected any and all further contact with Japan.  At the time, the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un were negotiating for a potential summit between the two leaders, but this was canceled due to the North...

Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean Supreme leader Kim Jong Un, has claimed that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida requested to hold a summit with the North Korean leader "at the earliest possible time" from a report made by the Korean Central News Agency. In February, Kim Jong Un claimed that he is not opposed to improving relations between North Korea and...