U.S. official to visit Pyongyang this week
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A U.S. diplomat will visit Pyongyang this week to try to advance a multilateral deal under which North Korea agreed to disclose its nuclear programs and ultimately to abandon them, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson  planned to meet two top North Korean diplomats on Friday in a  session blessed by the White House before talks resume next  week on North Korea's nuclear programs.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, who is poised to become the next head of the United Nations, said he may visit North Korea in his new role to help resolve a standoff over its nuclear ambitions.
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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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British junior foreign office minister  Bill Rammell will go to North Korea next month in the  highest-level visit to the isolated Communist state by a UK  official, London said on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit Japan, China and South Korea next weekend, the State Department said Saturday, in what probably is an effort to restart six-nation talks about North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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Washington&#39;s point man on North Korea hopes to meet UN nuclear chief Mohammed ElBaradei this week after the UN official visits Pyongyang to test their readiness to follow through on a landmark disarmament deal, a senior official said Monday.
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UN nuclear inspectors will visit North Korea next week to discuss shutting down its Yongbyon reactor.
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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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A visit by the U.N. atomic watchdog to  Pyongyang set for next week is on hold, a North Korean official  said on Thursday, casting uncertainty over disarmament moves  even as the top U.S. nuclear envoy made a surprise trip to the  North.
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South Korea's deputy foreign minister has headed to Washington for talks with US officials on ways to follow up on last week's deal on scrapping North Korea's nuclear programme, his ministry said.
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US envoy Christopher Hill is reportedly travelling to North Korea to discuss its nuclear programme.
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Diplomats from countries including the UK will visit North Korea starting tomorrow to view the site of an explosion that last week prompted speculation of a nuclear test, a spokeswoman for the UK&#39;s Foreign Office said.
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The top U.S. nuclear envoy, just returned from a rare visit to North Korea, said on Friday that Pyongyang was ready to promptly disable its nuclear reactor in weeks and live up to pledges it made in a disarmament deal.
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US negotiator Christopher Hill flew to North Korea at Pyongyang&#39;s invitation Thursday to push for swift progress on nuclear disarmament, the most senior US official to visit in nearly five years.
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A senior U.S. official may meet his  North Korean counterpart in Beijing this week as diplomats  prepare for six-party talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear  ambitions, the State Department said on Monday.
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A US envoy is set to meet a North Korea negotiator face-to-face ahead of new six-party talks on nuclear issues.