Donald Trump accepted an invitation from Kim Jong Un to visit North Korea during their historic summit, Pyongyang state media reported Wednesday, as the US president said the world had jumped back from the brink of “nuclear catastrophe”. Critics have said the unprecedented encounter in Singapore was more style than substance, producing a document that […]

The Federal Government has applauded the outcome of the Tuesday’s Summit between US President, Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement by its spokesperson, Dr Tope Elias-Fatile, on Tuesday in Abuja described the “Kim and Trump Summit,” held in Singapore as […]

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday raised hopes that the Korean War would soon end, after a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Now we can have hope that it will soon end and it will, it will soon end,” said Trump, noting that the 1950-53 hostilities ceased with an armistice, not […]

North Korea said Friday it is willing to talk to the United States “at any time” after President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a summit. Trump blamed “open hostility” from the North Korean regime for his decision to call off the planned talks with Kim Jong Un, and warned Pyongyang against committing any “foolish or reckless […]

North Korea has announced the dismantling of the country’s only known nuclear test site near the Chinese border. The exercise before a select list of about two dozen reporters from across the world occurred at the Punggye-ri test site, located beneath a mountain in the country’s northeast. The site is known to have been the […]

North Korean official has dismissed remarks by US Vice-President Mike Pence as “stupid”, casting further uncertainty about a planned meeting between the two countries’ leaders. Choe Son-hui said the North would not “beg” for dialogue and warned of a “nuclear showdown” if diplomacy failed. In recent days, both sides have said that the 12 June […]

Foreign journalists headed to North Korea on Tuesday to watch the promised destruction of its nuclear test site, a move seen as a goodwill gesture before a planned summit with the United States. Reporters from China, the US and Russia departed on a charter flight from Beijing, according to Chinese state broadcaster CGTN which is […]

The US State Department has warned Americans travelling to North Korea, to see their journey as a death wish following its frosty relation with the Asian country. The State Department gave the warning on its website urging those wishing to travel to make their burial plans and write a will if they wish to embark […]

US President Donald Trump on Monday declared North Korea “a state sponsor of terrorism”. Trump made the announcement during a public meeting with his Cabinet at the White House and said the Treasury Department will announce new sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday. “Today the United States is designating the North Korea as a state […]

North Korea slammed US President Donald Trump as “incurably mentally deranged” in a personal attack ahead of his first visit to Asia, as the South’s leader insisted Washington could not take military action on the peninsula without his agreement. Trump and the North’s leader Kim Jong-Un have traded threats of war and personal insults against […]