North Korea Urges Refugees to Return to 'Warm Home'
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North Korea appealed to refugees who have  sought asylum in the South to return to the impoverished state,  avoiding for once labeling them "human scum" and saying a warm  home awaits them.
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A group of 29 North Koreans, including two children, sought asylum Friday morning in a South Korean school in Beijing, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap News reported.
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Sudan has asked the United Nations to help verify reports that 190,000 refugees from the conflict-hit western Darfur region have voluntarily returned to their homes, the U.N. refugee agency chief said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL, June 17 - Officials in South Korea and the United States today welcomed a move by North Korea to invite the United Nations nuclear watchdog back to the Communist state for the first time in four and a half years to discuss shutting down the Northâs main nuclear complex.
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North Korea is urging an end to what it calls U.S. hostility, while Washington believes the time is ripe for real progress when six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs restart on Monday.
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North Korea, at the center of a crisis  over its nuclear weapons program, urged the United States on  Saturday to end its hostility in the New Year and said it  itself would work for peace and prosperity.
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North Korea's two-year-old nuclear crisis  has taxed the world's patience, the chief United Nations  nuclear regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to  return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell pressed North Korea on Sunday to return to nuclear disarmament talks even as he branded the communist country a &quot;terrorist state&quot; that has &quot;no respect for human rights.
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North Korea wants bilateral nuclear talks  with the United States but would rejoin stalled six-party  immediately if Washington dropped what it called its "hostile  policy" toward Pyongyang, the communist state said on Friday.
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North Korea wants to restart six-party talks on its nuclear programs urgently but still wants certain conditions met, a top U.N. official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Thursday.
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Four people believed to have fled North  Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small boat on  Saturday and later told police they want to go to South Korea,  Kyodo news agency reported.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, touring a sprawling desert camp housing 40,000 displaced people from the troubled western Darfur region, urged the Sudanese government to do more to make it safe for the frightened refugees to return home.
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South Korea&#39;s foreign minister called Tuesday &quot;for a more creative and realistic&quot; proposal that would lure North Korea back to six-nation talks over its nuclear program.
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North Korea proposed Wednesday a full resumption of humanitarian projects at the first high-level talks with South Korea in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test, heralding renewed reconciliation between the Koreas after the North pledged to dismantle its atomic program.
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U.N. inspectors plan to return to North Korea in about a week to help the communist nation dismantle its nuclear program and re-establish a presence that ended when they were expelled five years ago, diplomats said Sunday.
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North Korea's 2-year-old nuclear crisis has taxed the world's patience, the chief U.N. nuclear regulator said Wednesday, urging communist Pyongyang to return to its disarmament treaty obligations.
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North Korea on Friday said it would return to six-party nuclear talks and would consider treating the United States as a "friend," shortly after a U.S. congressional concluded talks with the North and said it appeared ready to negotiate.