North Korea’s top nuclear envoy held strategic talks with senior Chinese officials on Wednesday, in a meeting that was expected to focus on the North’s nuclear weapons program and bilateral ties.
A group of top South Korean politicians and religious leaders from both liberal and conservative sides called on the government on Wednesday to closely cooperate with North Korea to bring forth unification and peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Presidents Park Geun-hye of South Korea and Xi Jinping of China are expected to adopt a joint declaration that includes the denuclearization of North Korea after their summit talks set for late this month, Seoul’s top diplomat said Tuesday.
South Korea’s state arms procurement agency said Tuesday it has assigned 11.9 trillion won (U.S.$ 10.5 billion) for its weapons acquisition plan next year to enhance missile and combat capability, an increase of 17 percent from this year’s budget.
South Korea is studying the possibility of holding trilateral talks with top diplomats from the United States and China on the sidelines of a regional security conference in Brunei later this month, a diplomatic source said Monday.
Just one day after North Korea proposed high-level talks with the United States, the communist country on Monday criticized U.S. efforts to develop its own nuclear arsenal, saying it is triggering an international arms race.
At least eight people were killed and 23 wounded in two bomb explosions in north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
A former chief nuclear envoy was appointed South Korea’s new ambassador to Britain in a regular reshuffle that also affected 22 other ambassadorial posts, the foreign ministry said Friday.
)Park meets with former top Chinese diplomat
South Korea’s unification minister will attend a local event marking the 13th anniversary of the landmark 2000 inter-Korean summit later Friday, the first attendance by Seoul’s point man on North Korea in five years, the ministry said.
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