North Korea fires missiles after Harris leaves South Korea
September 29, 2022 GMTPANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — In a show of defiance, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday, hours after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris flew home from a visit to South Korea during which she traveled to the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas and emphasized the “ironclad” U.S.
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Clarification: Trump-North Korea-Stepping Into History story
July 2, 2019 GMTPANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — In a story July 1, The Associated Press reported that President Donald Trump was joined in his Freedom House conversation with North Korea's Kim Jong Un by his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner...
DMZ diplomacy: Kim accepts Trump invite to meet at border
June 30, 2019 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump will meet Sunday with North Korea's Kim Jong Un at the SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The North and South Korean militaries agreed Friday to completely destroy 22 front-line guard posts by the end of November as they discussed their next steps in implementing a wide-ranging military agreement signed last month to reduce tensions...2 Koreas to destroy 22 front-line guard posts by November
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Koreas finish removing land mines from border village
October 22, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The two Koreas have completed removing land mines planted at their shared border village as part of efforts to disarm the area located inside the world's most heavily fortified border, South Korean officials said Monday...
Koreas agree to break ground on inter-Korean railroad
October 15, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea continued their push for peace Monday with high-level talks that resulted in a host of agreements, including a plan by the rivals for a groundbreaking ceremony this year on an ambitious project to connect their railways and roads...
The Latest: NKorea-born reporter banned from covering talks
October 15, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on high-level peace talks between the rival Koreas (all times local):
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South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon has expressed regret over a decision to block a North Korean defector-turned reporter from covering high-level talks between the Koreas at a border village.
AP Explains: Removal of mines from Korean Demilitarized Zone
October 2, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul says the rival Koreas began removing mines and other explosives at two sites inside their heavily armed border on Monday as part of their recent tension-reduction steps...
2 Koreas begin removing DMZ mines to ease military tensions
October 1, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korean troops began removing some of the land mines planted at their heavily fortified border on Monday, Seoul officials said, in the first implementation of recent agreements aimed at easing their decades-long military standoff...
Kim, Moon start possibly most challenging Korean summit yet
September 18, 2018 GMTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for his third and possibly most challenging summit yet with leader Kim Jong Un in which he hopes to break an impasse in talks with the United States over the North's denuclearization and breathe energy into his own efforts to expand and improve relations between the Koreas...
Koreas agree to restore military communication lines
June 14, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas agreed Thursday to fully restore their cross-border communication lines after holding rare high-level military talks on reducing tensions...
Rival Koreas agree to military, Red Cross talks for peace
June 1, 2018 GMTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed Friday to hold military and Red Cross talks later this month on reducing tensions and resuming reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Trump says US team in NKorea planning summit with Kim
May 28, 2018 GMTPresident Donald Trump said Sunday a U.S. team was in North Korea to plan a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, raising expectations that the on-off-on meeting would indeed take place...
UN chief pledges support to further talks between the Koreas
May 1, 2018 GMTUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pledged the United Nations' "full support" to further talks between North Korea and South Korea and "stands ready to discuss possible forms of support...
Summit offers South Koreans rare insight into Kim Jong Un
April 28, 2018 GMTGOYANG, South Korea (AP) — A day after the leaders of the two Koreas met for a summit along their shared border, the emotional, memorable, even funny scenes from their time together are both a bitter reminder of the countries' seven decades of division and an insight into the mysterious character of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
The Latest: UN chief applauds ‘truly historic’ Koreas summit
April 27, 2018 GMTGOYANG, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the summit between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea (all times local):...