North and South Korean leaders meet in historic summit The leaders of North and South Korea have pledged to jointly eliminate the risk of war and work together to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The joint statement Friday, from the border truce village of Panmunjom, co...
North Korea crisis The Korean War (Korean: 6·25전쟁; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953)[28][a][30] was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the Pe...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stepped over the line separating his country from South Korea -- becoming the first North Korean ruler to do so since 1953. The leaders declared a formal end to the Korean War. This historic summit is largely focused on the north's nuclear weapons arsenal. ...
The two leaders seemed to have an instant rapport the minute Kim made history by becoming the first North Korean leader to step foot in the South. In a brief diplomatic dance, he invited Moon to cross the military demarcation line back into the North. South Korea literally rolled out the r...
No North Korean leader has travelled to South Korea since the end of the Korean War, which killed millions. There have been five summit talks between the leaders of the Koreas, three of them between Kim and Moon, but they all happened either in Pyongyang or the inter-Korean border village...
Days after outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in made possibly his last ambitious push to diplomatically resolve the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program, the North has rejected his call for a declaration ending the Korean War, making it clear it has no interest in political statem...
In an unplanned move, Kim invited Moon to step briefly across into North Korea, before the two leaders crossed back into South Korea holding hands. “I was excited to meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in ...
Parents of slain student Otto Warmbier sue North Korea over son's death The leaders had "sincere, candid" talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and were working on the wording of a joint statement, according to Moon's spokesman, Yoon Young-chan. They also discussed ways to...
Many political leaflets displayed the Korean people and North Korean soldiers as pawns of Korean Communists, China, and the Soviet Union. Leaders such as Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin were portrayed as exploiting Korea for their own ends. North Korean leader Kim Il Sung was literally publicized as...
When it comes to everyday life in North Korea during the Korean War, there are many basic questions that are still unanswered: How did North Koreans learn to cope with the violence and loss that surrounded them? How did they see their own leaders, their obligations to their country, and ...