Kim Jong Un, top leader of North Korea, expressed "great satisfaction" with the result of the test-firing, according to KCNA report. PYONGYANG, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), again guided the test-firing of "a newly-...
Kim Jong Un (C), top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet at the truce village of Panmunjom on June 30, 2019. (Xinhua/NEWSIS) The U.S. State Department reiterated Washington's inten...
The Oct. 4 joint declaration was the outcome of a 2007 inter-Korean summit between late DPRK leader Kim Jong Il, father of current leader Kim Jong Un, and late South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun."Had the Oct. 4 declaration been properly carried out, the achievements of the national ...
South Korea's wartime operational command was handed over to the U.S.-led UN Command after the three-year Korean War broke out in 1950. Seoul regained its peacetime command in 1994. The South Korea-U.S. military drills came amid the DPRK's denunciation. After test-firing two short-range...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. State Department said Thursday that it has neither plans nor expectations for a possible meeting between State Secretary Mike Pompeo and the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, during Pompeo's upcoming visit...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's Tuesday announcement of a second meeting with top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, renewed hopes among those having good intentions for the future of the Korean Peninsula. ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his upcoming Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), would be "successful." Trump told press that his trip to Vietnam next week would be "very succes...
Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said on Wednesday that the United States has not changed its military posture regarding the Korean Peninsula after the historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, in ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the date and location of his second meeting with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), have been decided and will be announced next week. ...
The Korean Peninsular denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington have hit a stalemate since the second summit between top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in late February ended without any agreement. The two leaders first met...