North Korea’s Kim Jong Un understands that denuclearisation must happen “quickly”, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, warning there will be no sanctions relief for Pyongyang until the process is complete. Washington remained committed to the “complete, verifiable and irreversible” denuclearisation of North Korea, Pompeo added, after the joint statement from the historic […]
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Warm words from North Korea on Cold War frontier
On the world’s last Cold War frontier, where troops have long faced off at the truce village that divides the two Koreas, propaganda broadcasts have fallen silent and soldiers from the North are hopeful a historic summit will herald a new era for their country. The blue huts of Panmunjom are emblematic of the truce […]
Historic summit due for Trump and Kim
Photo: AFP Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump meet on Tuesday for an unprecedented summit in an attempt to address the last festering legacy of the Cold War, with the US President calling it a “one time shot” at peace. Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal — which has seen it subjected to several sets of UN Security […]
Denuclearisation: the great divide for Kim-Trump summit
The issue at the top of US President Donald Trump’s agenda for his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is also the most complicated — denuclearisation. Pyongyang’s decades-long pursuit of atomic weapons and the means to deliver them to the US have seen it subjected to multiple rounds of sanctions by the UN […]
Pompeo, North Korean official share steak, details of upcoming summit in New York
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top North Korean official met in New York on Wednesday over a steak dinner to try to salvage next month’s summit between the North Korean and US leaders. Kim Yong Chol, considered the right-hand man of leader Kim Jong Un, was the most senior North Korean official […]
North Korea still open to US talks despite Trump summit cancellation
North Korea said Friday it was still willing to talk to the United States after President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a summit between the two countries, a decision that has thrown the Korean peninsula once more into uncertainty. Trump on Thursday called off his planned June meeting with Kim Jong Un, blaming “open hostility” from […]
Trump cancels Singapore summit with Kim
US President Donald Trump informed Kim Jong Un Thursday he is canceling their nuclear summit next month in Singapore, blaming “anger” and “hostility” from the North Korean regime for the collapse of the historic event. Trump and Kim had been due to hold high-stakes talks on June 12 aimed at ridding the reclusive state of […]
North Korea lambasts US VP Pence, threatens to cancel summit
North Korea called US Vice-President Mike Pence “ignorant and stupid” for his warnings over a planned summit with Donald Trump, renewing a threat to cancel as the US president said the fate of the historic talks will be decided next week. Trump is due to meet his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un in Singapore […]
N. Korea preps nuclear site demolition despite US summit doubts
Invited foreign journalists gathered in North Korea Wednesday to witness the slated destruction of the reclusive regime’s nuclear test site, a high profile gesture on the road to a summit with the US that Donald Trump now says might not happen. In a surprise announcement Pyongyang said earlier this month that it planned to “completely” […]
China’s ZTE says US sanctions have crippled operations
Chinese telecom giant ZTE said its major operations had “ceased” following last month’s US ban on American sales of critical technology to the company, raising the possibility of its collapse. The firm’s products depended on American chips and other components and is unable to continue operating without key supplies. “Major operating activities of the […]