U.S. Congressman Heads to North Korea
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A U.S. congressman traveling to North Korea Saturday said he will discuss the communist regime's nuclear program and human rights issues during talks with officials in Pyongyang.
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A top U.S. nuclear envoy left Pyongyang on Friday after a rare trip aimed at advancing a disarmament deal that has been snagged for months on a standoff over frozen North Korean assets.
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A senior U.S. envoy began an Asian tour   on Friday to press Washington's case that Pyongyang must be   brought to heel, as North Korea lashed out at Japan for   imposing sanctions over this week's barrage of missile tests.
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Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill completed a surprise trip to Pyongyang early today, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to travel there since the crisis over North Korea's nuclear ambitions began nearly five years ago.
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Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell is travelling to North Korea - the first British minister to visit the ultra-secretive communist state.
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The Bush administration should  consider direct talks with North Korea amid signs that country  may soon test a long-range missile, the chairman of the U.S.  Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Sunday.
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The top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher  Hill will visit North Korea, a diplomatic source in Tokyo said  on Thursday.
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North Korea's chief nuclear envoy left  for Beijing on Tuesday to meet a U.S. diplomat visiting the  Chinese capital and will discuss a delay in a nuclear  disarmament deal, Yonhap news agency reported.
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The U.S. envoy for North Korean human rights said he will visit the country this year for the first time to inspect a jointly run North-South industrial complex that he has criticized for exploiting workers.
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PYONGYANG, October 18 (Itar-Tass) - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Peopleâs Assembly (parliament) of the Peopleâs Democratic Republic of Korea Kim Yong Nam has begun his visit to China to discuss issues of economic cooperation and Pyongyang
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U.S. envoy Christopher Hill was en route to North Korea Thursday for talks on the next moves to be made under a nuclear disarmament agreement reached earlier this year, a Japanese government spokesman said.
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The top U.S. negotiator on North Korea will return to Beijing this weekend to prepare for six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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Negotiations on North Korea's nuclear programs can and will resume in weeks rather than months, a U.S. congressman said on Friday after rare talks with the North's number two leader appeared to break a logjam.
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Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill today made a surprise trip to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, marking the highest level visit by a U.S. official since the crisis over North Korea's nuclear ambitions began nearly five years ago.
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The US House of Representatives has given the government the green light to spend 20 million dollars to provide humanitarian aid to North Koreans inside and outside the country, and moved to make refugees from the country eligible for asylum in the United States.
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The U.S. envoy to nuclear talks headed back to Washington on Thursday with a promise from North Korea that it would study ideas proposed in two days of talks, and said the ball was now in Pyongyang's court.
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North Korea&#39;s Parliament head Kim Yong Nam, right, inspects a guard of honor with Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People&#39;s Congress, during a welcome ceremony in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 18, 2004.