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North Korea says it is considering what it calls a total freeze on ties with South Korea. It is the latest sign of Pyongyang's displeasure with the South's conservative president. VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports. South Korean officials ar
By Kurt Achin Seoul 24 October 2007 Senior South Korean officials say North Korea is ready to start dismantling key nuclear facilities within weeks. The moves are part of a multinational agreement aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs.
By Kurt Achin Seoul 28 March 2008 North Korea is warning it may slow or even halt its cooperation in dismantling key nuclear facilities, amid a dispute with Washington over an alleged uranium enrichment program. Pyongyang has also conducted a short r
A senior North Korean official says his country is beginning to restore a disabled nuclear facility capable of producing weapons material. Pyongyang says the United States has not fulfilled obligations under a multinational agreement to get rid of t
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 28 September 2007 In Beijing, negotiators are trying to cobble together an action plan detailing steps North Korea should take to disable its nuclear facilities. As VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hong
The World Food Program has called on South Korea to provide $60 million in aid for North Korea. The United Nations agency says the isolated state is facing its worst food shortage in a decade. Jason Strother has more from Seoul. The South Korean Uni
The State Department said a critical round of talks in Beijing on ending North Korea's nuclear program is not trending in the right direction. U.S. officials said Pyongyang risks losing promised benefits if talks on verifying its nuclear activities
North Korea has warned South Korean military leaders it may suspend a key inter-Korean industrial project if South Korean civic groups do not stop launching leaflets into the North's territory. VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports. South Korea
By Kurt Achin Seoul 18 April 2008 South Korean officials have publicly announced details of a deal to resume imports of United States beef. South Korea cited health concerns when it banned U.S. beef five years ago. The issue has been a major source o
By Daniel Schearf Beijing 01 November 2007 A team of American nuclear experts has arrived in North Korea to begin disabling the country's main nuclear facility. North Korea appears on track to keep its promise to divulge and disable all its nuclear f
By Kurt Achin Seoul 10 June 2008 North Korea has publicly declared its commitment to battling terrorism, in a move apparently aimed at hastening its removal from a U.S. list of terror sponsoring nations. With talks to end North Korea's nuclear-weapo
By Kurt Achin Seoul 07 June 2008 Senior Japanese and North Korean envoys are seeking to end almost a year of diplomatic silence with each other as they meet this weekend in the Chinese capital. The discussions are partly aimed at facilitating upcomi
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 06 February 2008 A key U.S. State Department official has renewed his call to North Korea to account for all its nuclear activities. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill issued his appeal as he briefed membe
The U.S. negotiator to six-nation talks on disarming nuclear North Korea says he believes the current stalemate will be resolved before the next American president takes office. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing. Christopher Hill The U.S. Assistan
By Kurt Achin Seoul 18 August 2007 North and South Korea have postponed a summit planned for later this month. North Korea asked for the delay until October because of extensive flood damage in the impoverished communist nation. VOA's Kurt Achin repo
Washington's main envoy on the North Korean nuclear issue is in Pyongyang, aiming to convince leaders there not to reverse promises they made last year. As VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports, if the talks fail, the stage could be set for the
South Korean officials are suggesting a compromise aimed at reviving efforts to get rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons may not be far off. The United States and North Korea have been negotiating intensively on a means of confirming the accuracy of
It will be Li's first visit to South Korea as premier and the first visit to South Korea by a Chinese premier in five years. The premier will attend the sixth Trilateral Summit Meeting on the sidelines of his visit from Saturday to Monday. Vice Forei
The United States said Monday it is not removing North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism until Pyongyang produces an acceptable plan to verify its nuclear program. Monday was the earliest date that North Korea could have been droppe
By Kurt Achin Seoul 01 April 2008 North Korea has singled out South Korea's president for harsh criticism, for the first time since he took office. Meanwhile, the chief American envoy to talks aimed ending North Korea's nuclear weapons is in Seoul,