Seoul is still striving to persuade Beijing not to repatriate some 20 North Korean defectors arrested in China, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday, denying a news report that it has been notified of Beijing’s decision on their repatriation.“We are still in negotiations with Chinese authoriti

Unification Ministry says will allow South Korean firms to build facilities in joint parkSouth Korea said Tuesday it will allow its firms to resume building facilities within the joint factory park in North Korea in the latest sign of easing ties between the two divided countries. Seoul also plans t

South Korea’s new chief envoy to the stalled six-nation talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs will travel to Japan this week to coordinate a joint strategy on efforts to revive the multilateral forum, officials said Tuesday. Lim Sung-nam, who was appointed to the post last week in a routin

One of two South Koreans detained by Chinese authorities late last month with a group of North Korean defectors has been released and returned home, Seoul’s foreign ministry officials said Tuesday. The two men, who had also defected from North Korea before they settled in the South, were held by Chi

North Korea’s scenic mountain resort in Mount Geumgang will be open to foreigners later this month via a Beijing-based company’s cruise, amid an ongoing tug of war over South Korean assets in the area. Young Pioneer Tours posted the five-day tour program on its website, explaining it will cost 8,500

North Korea and the United States will hold a second bilateral meeting to discuss the stalled six-nation talks on the North’s nuclear weapons programs, a senior Seoul diplomat said Monday. The exact date for the meeting has not been set, but the two sides will meet sometime after this week’s planned

North Korea warned on Saturday it could take physical action against South Korea in response to the South’s “ceaseless provocative war moves.”This warning came after the South Korean military conducted maritime live-fire drills on Thursday off Bangnyeongdo and Yeonpyeongdo near the tense inter-Korea

North Korea warned on Saturday it could take physical action against South Korea in response to the South's "ceaseless provocative war moves."The (North) Korean Central News Agency, Pyongyang's state-run media, said the Korean Peninsula was at "the crossroads of dialogue or confrontation and peace o

South Korea said Thursday it will not repatriate two North Koreans who crossed the eastern sea border earlier this week, a development that could anger North Korea.The two brothers clearly expressed their wish to stay in South Korea after sailing here on a small boat on Monday, according to South Ko

South Korea’s new chief envoy to the stalled six-nation talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs left for the United States Thursday, amid cautious diplomatic jostling to revive the multilateral forum. Speaking to Yonhap News Agency before departing for Washington, Lim Sung-nam said that he “

SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) -- More than 100 North Korean defectors who had sought aslyum overseas despite holding South Korean citizenship returned to the South in the last five years, a lawmaker said Thursday.Seoul's diplomatic missions overseas issued 109 individual passports to North Korean defectors with South Korean citizenship in what appeared to be efforts to return to the South after fake asylum attempts were rejected or when life in foreign nations proved too difficult, even if asylum had b