US, North Korea to begin normalization talks next week
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The United States will begin landmark talks Monday on normalizing relations with North Korea, a regime once branded as part of an &quot;axis of evil&quot; by US President George W. Bush.
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South Korea and the United States were discussing a last-minute deal until late Friday night over how to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue ahead of the summit meeting between
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The abrupt end to normalization talks between Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea is not expected to hamper Washington's own negotiations to establish diplomatic ties with the Stalinist state, a US State Department official said Friday.
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The United States, Japan and South Korea agreed on Friday to try to arrange a fresh round of six-party talks this month on dismantling North Korea&#39;s nuclear
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Washington (VNA) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell will discuss the Korean nuclear issue and the six-party talks with leaders of Japan, China and the Republic of Korea (RoK) when he visits the three countries this week, State Department spokesman
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U.S. and North Korean officials start talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of a agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs for aid.
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South Korea and the United States have already begun talks about a possible agreement with North Korea formally ending the 1950-53 war on the peninsula, the US ambassador to Seoul said Thursday.
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The United States hopes to make a "substantial start" in six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program in Beijing next week, said the top U.S. negotiator to the talks on Thursday.
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International disarmament talks on North Korea's nuclear program will resume in Beijing next week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
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Nuclear-armed North Korea has agreed to address questions over its controversial highly enriched uranium program that had triggered the nearly five-year atomic standoff with Washington, US envoy Christopher Hill said Monday.
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U.S. and South Korean envoys were due to arrive in Beijing on Monday to prepare for six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program, which are expected to resume next month.
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The two Koreas set up a meeting for Thursday to discuss resuming high-level talks, the first sign of tensions relaxing on the divided peninsula after North Korea signed a breakthrough nuclear disarmament agreement.
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North and South Korea agreed on Thursday to restart high-level talks, paving the way for food aid to resume after this week's breakthrough energy-for-disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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U.S officials met twice last week with North Korean officials in New York to tell them the United States was ready to resume nuclear negotiations and wanted to resolve the issue diplomatically, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said Monday.
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SEOUL : North Korea says it will not return to international talks on its nuclear weapons programme until the lineup of a new US administration emerges and Washington drops its &quot;hostile policy&quot; toward the communist state.
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The chief U.S. negotiator on North  Korea will hold discussions in Japan and China in the next few  days aimed at organizing a fresh round of six-party talks on  dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programs, a State Department  official said on Tuesday.
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South Korea will start shipping oil to North Korea next week, an official said on Wednesday, a day after U.N. nuclear inspectors said the reclusive state had agreed to steps verifying a shutdown of its nuclear program.