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Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties against Iran for defying international attempts to halt its contested nuclear program.
North Korea's leader is offering to return to multinational disarmament talks in a renewed effort to draw Washington into one-on-one talks that the United States has yet to fully embrace.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Friday the world must take a strong stand against North Korea's nuclear ambitions, despite recent conciliatory gestures from Pyongyang.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday that North Korea must scrap its atomic weapons programs before the divided Korean Peninsula can be unified with the signing of a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reportedly said Friday his country is ready to engage in multilateral talks, the latest move in a diplomatic chess game with the U.S. and regional powers seeking to rid Pyongyang of nuclear weapons.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak named an economics professor as his new prime minister on Thursday as part of a Cabinet reshuffle ahead of by-elections.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has sent word that he wants to hold a summit with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in the latest sign of easing tensions between the divided nations, news reports said Monday.
A senior U.S. diplomat sought South Korea's support Monday to enforce U.N. sanctions against North Korea despite a series of gestures by the communist nation to reduce tensions with the rival South.
A photo of the North Korean leader recently shown on Pyongyang's state TV appears to be a doctored version of one published in April by the country's official news agency — a possible sign his health is worsening — South Korean media reported Monday.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is urging representatives of top U.S. companies to push for quick ratification of a stalled U.S.-South Korean free trade deal.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday that his nation and its allies will not be intimidated by nuclear threats from neighboring North Korea.
As North Korea threatens nuclear war, President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will be eager to show the North the unity of their alliance and a determination not to back down.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called Sunday for closer business and cultural ties with Southeast Asia to create a common economic community that is a leader in green growth.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is juggling competing crises: the suicide of his predecessor and an increasingly belligerent North Korea.
A joint project between the Koreas to build an industrial park in the North was hailed as a symbol of detente, but it has now become another point of friction between the two countries.
North Korea is believed to have several nuclear warheads that could be mounted on a missile, an international security expert said Tuesday ahead of a rocket launch that regional powers suspect will test weapon delivery technology.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Monday that he is ready for dialogue with North Korea, though he vowed not to veer from the hard-line principles that have angered the communist state and strained ties over the past year.
President Lee Myung-bak said Friday he will make it his priority in the new year to pull South Korea out of the global economic crisis as Asia's fourth-largest economy reported a trade deficit for 2008 — its first in a decade.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak indicated no softening of his hard-line stance on North Korea and vowed Wednesday to work closely with Washington to end the communist nation's nuclear ambitions.
Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $60 million in South Korea over the next three years, President Lee Myung-bak's office said Monday.
President Lee Myung-bak said Monday that a currency swap agreement with the United States last week has greatly reduced fears South Korea could suffer a foreign exchange crisis. The government also unveiled new spending aimed at boosting the nation's slumping economy.
South Korean intelligence indicates that ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il suffered a serious health setback and has been hospitalized, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
South Korea's ruling party says President Lee Myung-bak will propose a summit with China and Japan to discuss how to cope with the current global economic crises.
Washington's chief U.S. nuclear envoy left North Korea on Friday after spending an extra day in the communist nation to try to persuade Pyongyang to resume dismantling its nuclear program.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday expressed regret to Buddhists who have accused his predominantly Christian Cabinet of discriminating against them.
US Urges North Korea Not to Escalate Tensions in Yellow SeaWashington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday. More Articles
Korean Navies Trade Fire in First Incident in Seven YearsNorth and South Korean naval vessels exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, leaving one North Korean vessel engulfed in flames, South Korean officials said. More Articles
Koreas to discuss family reunionsNorth and South Korea are to hold talks on reuniting families divided by war in the 1950s, officials in Seoul say.
N. Korea warns of 'thousand-fold' military actionThe warning of a military strike, carried by the North's state media, came hours after President Obama declared North Korea a "grave threat" to the world and pledged that recent U.N. sanctions on the communist regime will be aggressively enforced.
Obama, Lee warn North Korea; missile on the movePresident Barack Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea met yesterday to discuss the North Korean threat. With North Korea withdrawing its funds from foreign banks in advance of sanctions and promising to "weaponize" all of its plutonium, matters are not looking good.
Two Imprisoned American journalists were being thrown in President Obama's face as he was to begin talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
North Korea warns of possible war with South KoreaSEOUL, South Korea – North Korea warned Sunday that South Korea's confrontational policies may trigger a war on the divided peninsula, a message coming two days after the communist country vowed to abandon all peace agreements with its southern neighbor.Relations between the tw …
South Korea on alert after North's statementSouth Korea said its army remained on alert Sunday, a day after North Korea threatened military action in response to Seoul's hard-line stance against its communist regime.
Religious peace threatened in South KoreaAt Jogye Temple, normally an island of Buddhist serenity, plainclothes officers have staked out the exits, waiting to grab any fugitives who venture out.
George Bush Caves In to Public Opinion, Restores Dokdo's Status After a week of public outbursts and increased diplomacy from Korea, a U.S. naming agency has restored Dokdo's sovereignty as South Korean from its recent classification of the islets as having "undesignated sovereignty."
Reuters AlertNet: North Korea lashes out at South's new president. By Jon Herskovitz, Yoo Choonsik, Park Jung-youn, and Lee Jiyeon. 01 Apr 2008 03:24:10 GMTSEOUL, April 1 (Reuters) - North Korea unleashed a torrent of insults at South Korea's new president on Tuesday in a first mention of Lee Myung-bak since he won a December election with a pledge to get tough on his communist neighbour.
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