Tag: Kim Jong-un
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Trump-Kim summit: Second meeting by February-end
The announcement came after Trump met top North Korean negotiator Kim Yong-chol at the White House on Friday.
January 19, 2019 -
A defection and Korean dynamics
The latest rounds of dialogue between the US and the two Koreas will also fall at this hurdle unless they find a novel way forward.
January 14, 2019 -
If Trump and Kim can meet, why not other countries: Nepal on stalled SAARC summit
Nepal on Friday strongly pitched for convening of the SAARC summit, saying differences should be resolved through dialogue and the grouping should collectively deal with terrorism and other key challenges facing the region.
January 11, 2019 -
Mild bluster
North Korean President Kim Jong-un has clarified that international sanctions must be lifted before Pyongyang gives up a single weapon, dismantles a single missile site, or stops producing nuclear material
January 7, 2019 -
Realistic fantasies in Korean détente
Seoul’s Unification Ministry sent 200 metric tons of tangerines to Pyongyang in return for the two tons of pine mushrooms that North Korean chief Kim Jong-un shipped to the South after September’s inter-Korean summit.
December 6, 2018 -
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un successfully ‘tests high-tech tactical weapon’: Report
Kim Jong Un inspected the testing of a newly developed high-tech tactical weapon at the Academy of National Defence Science, North Korea's state broadcaster said.
November 16, 2018 -
Report of North Korea’s ‘undisclosed’ missile bases not new: Seoul
Speaking about the report, the presidential office spokesman said that the source of the analysis of the Sakkanmol base was a commercial satellite
November 13, 2018 -
North Korea secretly developing nuclear weapons programme: US report
The report includes satellite photos that show that in recent months North Korea has carried out a number of improvements to a series of facilities that would 'support a missile launch in an emergency'.
November 13, 2018 -
South Koreans divided over reunification with North
The recent detente between the two Koreas has triggered an intense debate in South Korea on the reunification of the two countries divided since the 1950s.
November 6, 2018 -
Kim Jong-un to visit Russia: South Korean envoy
The two Koreas have been technically at war for over six decades as the Korean War in the 1950s had ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty.
November 5, 2018 -
North Korea preparing for nuclear inspection: Seoul
Since the June summit, Pyongyang has repeatedly demanded a permanent peace treaty with South Korea to replace the armistice that ended the Korean War in the 1950s.
October 31, 2018 -
Putin ‘probably’ involved in killings, poisonings, but not in US: Trump
Asked whether he thought Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election, Trump said he did not think that it was just Russia.
October 15, 2018 -
Kim Jong-un wants Pope Francis to visit North Korea
Kim Jong-un has invited Pope Francis to visit North Korea. The news of the invite was shared by South Korea on Tuesday, 9 October, at a press conference ahead of the visit of President Moon Jae-in to Vatican.
October 9, 2018 -
While the whole world watched
“THE whole world is watching”: that was one of the most popular taunts when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley unleashed his armour-clad police against the mainly young crowds of protesters during the Democratic Party’s national convention in August 1968. It wasn’t too much of an exaggeration. Television was then a relative novelty in many nations, but …
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October 5, 2018 -
Abe’s ‘New Japan’
Shinzo Abe’s convincing victory in the election for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party (553 votes against 254) is historic, making him Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister. His agenda might appear to be rather ambitious on the face of it, but has been overdue for the country ever since World War II ended. As much …
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September 26, 2018 -
Summit of the Koreas
It would be presumptuous to hazard a guess on the long-term outcome of this week’s summit between North and South Korea in Pyongyang. That the meeting was held ~ for the first time since the armistice of 1953 ~ is in itself a watershed development. Beyond the grandstanding, Kim Jong-un is reported to have signalled …
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September 22, 2018 -
Talk-time on Korea~II
As the talks for a second Trump-Kim summit will soon hit the headlines, there are certain hidden factors that could affect, if not determine, the possible outcome of the summit, if it materialises. One is that the US has urged the UN Security Council for an urgent meeting as it suspects some countries are undermining …
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September 20, 2018