2 Koreas plan talks on improving relations
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SEOUL -- The two Koreas will hold talks late this month aimed at improving relations, a South Korean official said yesterday, the first sign of easing tensions between the countries after the North signed a nuclear disarmament agreement.
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Impoverished North Korea's first steps to  take apart its nuclear arms program may reap the reward of food  aid from the South when the two hold their first high-level  meeting in months on Tuesday.
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Japanese and North Korean negotiators meet in Mongolia for talks aimed at resolving bilateral disputes.
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North Korea called on Friday for military talks with the United States for peace and security on the peninsula, while Washington has said it can discuss a peace treaty after Pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program.
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Military officials from North and South Korea are to meet on Monday at Pyongyang's suggestion, the first bilateral military talks since the North test-fired seven missiles in July, Seoul's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
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Military officers from Seoul and Pyongyang met Thursday to discuss rail and road links through the Demilitarised Zone, ending a three-month break in two-way talks, but North Korea dodged making any clear pledge over key issues, the South Korean defense ministry said.
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Japan and North Korea hold talks Wednesday for the first time in six months to discuss tense ties amid rare, albeit cautious, signs of optimism between the arch-foes.
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N Korea is expected to ask the South to resume aid shipments, when officials from the two sides meet later.
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Japanese and North Korean diplomats met on Tuesday to smooth the way toward improving relations, but Tokyo said it would not establish ties until the issue of its citizens abducted by Pyongyang was resolved.
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The US and South Korea start talks to review aspects of a hard-won free trade agreement.
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SEOGWIPO, South Korea  - The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China meet on Sunday to try to smooth often prickly ties and help resolve the impasse over the nuclear weapons plans of their neighbor, North Korea.
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South and North Korea held  formal ministerial talks on Wednesday for the first time since  Pyongyang sparked a crisis with missile tests as a rift among  regional powers widened despite U.S. calls for unity.
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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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This week's talks between Japan and North  Korea show efforts to hold more six-party talks on the North's  nuclear plans are gathering pace and most countries want a  meeting before the year ends, South Korea said on Wednesday.
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North Korea hosted U.S. envoys at its mission in Geneva on Sunday for the second and final day of talks aimed at smoothing relations between the 1950-53 Korean War opponents and speeding up Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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Senior envoys from the US and North Korea are to meet in Geneva to discuss ways of normalising relations.
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North Korea&#39;s number two leader Kim Yong-nam is said to be holding talks with top Chinese officials to negotiate issues relating to the North&#39;s economy and its two-year-old nuclear standoff.