ISLAMABAD — America’s security “failures” in Afghanistan are evident from events of the week when visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could not move out of a U.S. military base and invited Afghan leaders to his “bunker” for talks, neighboring Pakistan said Thursday. “This situation tells the whole story of U.S. failures, despite fighting in the […]
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—The U.S. drone attack that killed the Afghan Taliban’s leader last month in Pakistan damaged “mutual trust” between Islamabad and Washington, intensified hostilities in Afghanistan and seriously set back peace efforts for that war-ravaged country, a Pakistani authority said on the eve of new talks. As senior U.S. officials and their Pakistani counterparts prepare […]
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 […]
A top North Korean diplomat says his country’s nuclear weapons program is not up for discussion, insisting Pyongyang’s situation is “totally different” from that of Iran. North Korea’s ambassador to China, Ji Jae Ryong said Tuesday the North does not have “any interest at all in dialogue for unilaterally freezing or giving up our nukes.” […]