Source: BBC North Korea has cancelled Wednesday’s high-level talks with South Korea because of anger over its joint military exercises with the US. The North’s official KCNA news agency said the exercises were a “provocation” and a rehearsal for an invasion. It also warned the US over the fate of the historic summit between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald… Read more »
Currently around the world peace is on the rise for certain countries, including the very surprising and unlikely North Korea. The United States relations have sporadically improved regarding the Nuclear test sites that have wreaked havoc for the environment and North Korean civilians. The hostages held captive in North Korea are now released back to America, and now both leaders,… Read more »
Donald Trump will come face to face with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore on 12 June, the US president announced on Thursday. The summit – a first between a sitting US president and his North Korean counterpart – will be the stage for critical talks aimed at curbing North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. Trump announced the details on… Read more »
North Korea has begun dismantling the country’s only known nuclear test site, according to satellite photos, following through on a promise made by leader Kim Jong-un ahead of his meeting with Donald Trump. The pictures, taken on 7 May, are “the first definitive evidence that dismantlement of the test site was already well underway”, according to a blog post by 38 North,… Read more »
In 1975, Xia Boyu lost his feet after giving his sleeping bag to a sick teammate during a high-altitude storm. Now aged 69, he became the second double amputee to scale Everest – and the first ever from the Nepalese side. Australian Steve Plain, meanwhile, set the record for the fastest climb of the highest mountains on seven continents. Plain’s… Read more »
The US secretary of state has made a second surprise visit to North Korea to finalise plans for a historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Mike Pompeo, who first travelled to North Korea as CIA chief in early April, is only the second sitting US secretary of state to visit the country. He arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday, for a visit… Read more »
The main thing about the region of eastern Asia was the whole issue with North Korea and whether they will actually disarm their nukes or not. This has been a major story world wide as this could be huge news as the world could stop worrying about North Korea and its nuclear program. Many believe that the ongoing pressure and… Read more »
Following its ratification of the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute in July after nearly a decade of deliberation, Japan is attending its first meeting of the 104 countries which actively support the ICC later this month, with analysts wondering whether other Asian countries will now follow in its footsteps. For Japan, ratifying the Rome Statute lends credence to its campaign… Read more »
Despite the obvious need of 25 million North Koreans for objective, reliable news and information, their country has been all but ignored by the international media development community and donors, on the grounds that no one could be sure of making any impact. The black hole that is the Hermit Kingdom has meant that the handful of non-government radio stations… Read more »
Speaking on the sidelines of an annual meeting of China’s parliament, Wang said some outside forces were trying to muddy the waters in the disputed region. China has repeatedly accused countries outside the region – generally a reference to the United States and Japan – of trying to provoke trouble in the South China Sea while China and its neighbors… Read more »