US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday abruptly shelved plans to meet a top North Korean official, Kim Yong Chol, in New York to secure a potentially landmark peace deal. The talks between President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and the North Korean delegation, which had been due on Thursday, “will now take place at […]

A Chinese top lawmaker Li Zhanshu has expressed confidence that neighbouring North Korea and the United States will implement their nuclear summit agreement. Li and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were together during Pyongyang’s 70th anniversary parade on Sunday. Concise News understands that Li was sent by President Xi Jinping to attend the anniversary. […]

Nuclear-armed North Korea on Sunday celebrated its 70th birthday as thousands of troops followed by artillery and tanks paraded without displaying the intercontinental ballistic missiles. The country was proclaimed on 9 September, 1948, three years after Russia and the United States divided the peninsula between them in the closing days of the Second World War. […]

US President Donald Trump pledged Thursday to complete a deal on denuclearizing the Korean peninsula together with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, signaling that negotiations remain alive after weeks of an apparent deadlock. “Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims ‘unwavering faith in President Trump.’ Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it […]

US President Donald Trump has asked his top diplomat Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel a planned trip to North Korea. Trump, in a tweet on Friday, insinuated that there was no need for the trip as, according to him, insufficient progress was being made on denuclearising the Korean peninsula. He did not end […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at an early date”, the North’s state media reported on Wednesday. Putin invited Kim and the South’s President Moon Jae-in in June to an economic forum in Vladivostok next month although it is not known whether the North Korean leader […]

The leaders of North and South Korea will hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, both countries announced Monday. It will be the third in-person meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Representatives from the two Koreas announced the September meeting after a round of high-level talks between […]

The White House on Thursday said President Donald Trump had received a new letter from North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, without disclosing its contents. With little public sign of progress toward Trump’s aim of Korean denuclearization, the White House said the letter followed up on the pair’s June 12 summit. “A letter to President […]

North Korea has started dismantling some facilities at its main satellite launch station, seen as the testing ground for its intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to expert analysis of recent satellite images. If confirmed, the analysis by respected US-based website 38 North could signal a step forward after last month’s landmark summit between Kim Jong Un […]

US President Donald Trump has taken extraordinary diplomatic step when he tweeted a letter from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Trump also expressed confidence in efforts to end the nuclear standoff with North Korea. The four-paragraph letter — an upbeat missive in which Kim voices hope in a “new future” and speaks of his […]