Hostile rhetoric crosses line
More diplomatic approaches needed to ease tensions
In a strongly-worded statement, North Korea is heightening tensions on the Korean Peninsula by issuing threats to occupy South Korea in the event of a war. North Korea…
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) held closed-door consultations on North Korea-related issues on Thursday, sources said, amid tensions heightened by Pyongyang’s recent launch of a claimed hypersonic missile and its hardening rhetoric against Seoul.
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Beyond Utopia,” an Oscar short-listed film on North Korean defectors, will be screened at the U.S. State Department in Washington this week, officials said Thursday, in an apparent move to shine a light on the escapees’ treacherous journey in search …
The fourth edition of the Winter Youth Olympics will open in eastern South Korea on Friday night, as the eyes of the winter sports world once again turn to Gangwon Province six years after the Winter Olympics in the region.
Gangwon Province will ser…
Recent satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site does not suggest imminent preparations for a new nuclear experiment despite apparent maintenance activity related to one of the underground tunnels there, a U.S. monitor said Thur…