Twenty-five countries, including South Korea, will participate in an interdiction training exercise next week in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. State Department announced Friday. The Proliferation .. [Oct.28,2006 17:34 KST]

The United States can have one-on-one talks with North Korea if the communist country returns to nuclear disarmament talks, but the talks will be "discussions," not "negotiations," U.S. State Depar.. [Oct.28,2006 17:29 KST]

The U.N Security Council needs to adopt a new resolution if it wants to suspend inter-Korean cooperation projects, according to a U.S. expert on North Korea. The remarks come amid divisions between Se.. [Oct.28,2006 17:27 KST]

Foreign ministry and security officials have expressed their reservation on South Korea joining the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative... [Oct.28,2006 17:08 KST]

A group of senior Democratic senators urged President George W. Bush to promptly appoint a North Korea policy coordinator to revive efforts under the Clinton administration to prevent Pyongyang's nuc.. [Oct.27,2006 19:42 KST]

The top U.S. envoy in Seoul said Friday that South Korea should take stronger steps against North Korea to enforce the U.N. resolution to punish it for a recent nuclear test. Although U.S. Amb.. [Oct.27,2006 19:39 KST]

Chinese envoy Tang Jiaxuan, sent to Pyongyang to mediate a breakthrough in North Korean nuclear talks earlier this month, spent 20 minutes enumerating to the North's top leader all that Beijing has d.. [Oct.27,2006 16:55 KST]

The cumulative number of people who have applied for refugee status in South Korea has surpassed 1,000, but less than a tenth of them got permission to stay, according to government data released on .. [Oct.26,2006 22:03 KST]

The United States will impose the kind of sanctions against North Korea that were taken on India and Pakistan after their nuclear tests in 1998, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday. .. [Oct.26,2006 21:20 KST]

The South Korean government has decided to prevent the entry of any North Koreans suspected of having links to their communist state's nuclear and other weapons programs into the country, Seoul's poi.. [Oct.26,2006 20:19 KST]