SEOUL—North Korea Sunday rejected resuming international talks to end its nuclear program and instead called upon the United States to negotiate a formal peace treaty. The call for a peace treaty was part of a North Korean Foreign Ministry response to comments made by President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-Hye Friday in […]
SEOUL—South Korea and North Korea reached a deal early Tuesday to defuse the latest confrontation on the Korean peninsula after three days of tense negotiations. There was no immediate report on details of the accord, but the office of South Korean President Park Geun-hye said it would make an announcement shortly. Earlier Monday, President Park […]
SEOUL—U.S. defense officials say annual drills by American and South Korean military forces were halted temporarily to avoid contributing to a dramatic increase in tensions between North and South Korea – a dispute that prompted Pyongyang to declare it is in a “quasi-state of war.” North Korea routinely condemns the allies’ annual military exercises and […]
SEOUL—Seoul Monday accused the North Korean military of illegally crossing into the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and intentionally planting landmines that injured two soldiers on August 4th. The U.S.-led U.N. Command that monitors the cease-fire between the Koreas also participated in the investigation of the incident and support’s Seoul’s finding. Major […]