SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed a request from his South Korean counterpart Wednesday to cut off oil shipments to energy-starved North Korea as a way of punishing the communist state for its latest nuclear test and also forcing it out to the dialogue table. South Korean President Moon Jae-in [...]
MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday he will not reject any form of talks with North Korea if necessary to resolve the nuclear standoff, but this is not the right time. He made the remarks in a written interview with TASS Russian News Agency ahead of his visit [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and the United States agreed Tuesday to “actively” push for three-way consultations involving China over the implementation of new U.N. sanctions on North Korea and its denuclearization, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said. Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea’s special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The former head of a U.N. investigative panel on North Korea’s human rights issue called Tuesday for renewed international attention to the problem, saying looking away from the issue amounts to turning away from what the Nazis did in the 1930s. Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who headed [...]