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Kim to meet Putin as Russia seeks closer military ties with North Korea

Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss the possibility of supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in Ukraine, as Russia says it is seeking closer military ties with North Korea. In a rare trip abroad, Kim would travel from Pyongyang, probably by armored train, to Vladivostok, on the Pacific Coast of Russia, where he would meet Putin, the New York Times […]

today5 September 2023

International News

N Korea’s Kim suspends plans for military action against S Korea

North Korea has announced it will suspend "military action plans" against South Korea, after a meeting of the governing party's Central Military Commission presided over by leader Kim Jong Un, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday. The video conference meeting on Tuesday also discussed documents outlining measures for "further bolstering the war deterrent of the country", KCNA reported. The committee members "took stock of the prevailing situation" before […]

today24 June 2020

International News

North Korea says Kim supervised second artillery drill in week

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised his second live-fire artillery exercise in a week, state media said on Tuesday, as the country continues to expand its military capabilities. The report by Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) came a day after South Korea's military detected the launch of three short-range projectiles from North Korea's eastern coast. KCNA said Kim showed great satisfaction as his front-line artillery units demonstrated "excellent […]

today10 March 2020

International News

Trump and Kim meet after months of threats and insults

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have sat down for unprecedented talks between the leaders of two long-hostile nations, as the world watches anxiously for signs of a peace deal and an agreement on the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. Trump and Kim met privately from 9:05am local time for 48 minutes flanked only by their translators, then broke for a wider bilateral meeting with aides, a meeting expected to last […]

today12 June 2018

International News

Trump open to Kim visiting the White House if summit is a success

US President Donald Trump has said he is open to inviting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the White House if he deemed next week's summit a success, while also signalling he was willing to walk away if he thought talks did not go well. "Certainly if it goes well. I think it would be well received," Trump said on Thursday during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister […]

today8 June 2018

International News

North Korea’s Kim Yong-chol in US for meeting with Mike Pompeo

The North Korean leader's right-hand man Kim Yong-chol met Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for a steak dinner at a Manhattan apartment to discuss plans for a historic summit planned for next month. Two more meetings between Kim - North Korea's former spy chief - and Pompeo - the ex-head of the CIA - take place on Thursday. Leader Kim Jong-un's top envoy touched down on Wednesday in New York […]

today31 May 2018

International News

Trump pulls out of summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

US President Donald Trump has announced he will not attend a planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, raising concerns tensions between the two nations will escalate again with the threat of war. In a letter sent to Kim on Thursday, Trump said the summit - which had been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore - would no longer be possible "based on the tremendous anger and open hostility" […]

today25 May 2018

International News

N.Korea suspends talks with the South

Professor Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, condemned Israel’s excessive use of force towards largely unarmed demonstrators at the Gaza fence on Monday, which has left 61 Palestinians dead, and almost 2,800 wounded. He expressed grave fears this figure could rise sharply in coming days unless Israeli authorities uphold their obligations under international human rights law and international […]

today16 May 2018

International News

China says North Korea pledges denuclearisation

China said on Wednesday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to denuclearise the Korean peninsula during an historic meeting in Beijing with President Xi Jinping, who promised China would uphold its friendship with its isolated neighbour. After two days of speculation, China and North Korea both confirmed on Wednesday that Kim had visited Beijing and met Xi during what China’s official Xinhua news agency called an unofficial visit from […]

today28 March 2018

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