North Korea is printing anti-Seoul leaflets in large numbers and preparing to send them across the border to South Korea, the country's official news agency said Saturday.  "The enraged people across the country are actively pushing forward with the preparations for launching a large-scale distribution of leaflets to pour the leaflets of punishment upon those in South Korea who are bereft of even elementary morality," said the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The KCNA

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their June 2018 summit in Singapore that he was open to lifting United Nations sanctions on the regime and would think about it, Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, was quoted as writing in his upcoming memoir. In his book, "The Room Where It Happened," which is due to be published next week, Bolton writes that Kim told Trump as they were leaving the meeting that he was glad the two

WASHINGTON -- Cindy Warmbier, the mother of an American college student who died after being held in North Korea, renewed her resolve on Friday to increase pressure on the Pyongyang regime. On the third anniversary of her son Otto's death, Warmbier spoke from her Cincinnati, Ohio, home about the legacy of her "hero" and the guilt she still feels over letting him travel to North Korea in 2016. But her message to the world was clear: North Korea must be held accountable for its b

WASHINGTON -- South Korea's top nuclear envoy departed Washington on Friday after meeting with US officials amid North Korea's threats to launch military action on Seoul. Lee Do-hoon, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, boarded a flight home at Dulles International Airport at the end of an unannounced three-day visit to the US capital. Met by reporters at the airport, he refused to answer any questions on what he discussed with his American counterpart, Dep

The unification ministry reaffirmed its vow Friday to stop North Korean defectors from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets and other materials to the communist state, amid a spike in cross-border tensions caused by the North's shocking demolition of a joint liaison office. The government has sought to stop the leafleting on the grounds that it could further aggravate inter-Korean tensions and undermine the safety of residents near the border. North Korea has lashed out at South Korea for failing

Outgoing Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul voiced hope on Friday that his departure will pave the way for a "pause" in the recent escalation of inter-Korean tensions caused by North Korea's shocking demolition of an inter-Korean liaison office and bellicose rhetoric. In his farewell speech, Kim also stressed that "hatred can't be defeated by hatred" in his appeal for the two Koreas to stop the downward spiral of their relations and return to a reconciliatory mode. Earlier

No signs have been detected yet that suggest North Korea is following through with a threat to beef up military presence near the border with South Korea, a military official said Friday. On Wednesday, the General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army said it will redeploy troops to two joint inter-Korean economic zones, restore guard posts removed from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas and resume all kinds of military exercises near the border in anger over anti-Pyong

Former US national security adviser John Bolton wrote in his new book that US President Donald Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea was South Korea’s “creation,” and that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was able to manipulate the American president. In his memoir “The Room Where It Happened,” which is due to be published next week, Bolton wrote extensively about his disagreements with Trump before, during and after the Singapore summit with Kim, CNN reported o

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's recent provocations against South Korea show that the communist country continues to present an "extraordinary" threat to the region, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. Speaking in a teleconference, David Helvey, acting assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said the United States remains in close coordination with South Korea to ensure readiness against North Korea's threats. "As we've been starkly reminded in recen

North Korea could carry out a major "Christmas gift" provocation around the time of November's US presidential election unless the current tensions are properly dealt with, an expert said Thursday. Last year, the North threatened to carry out an unspecified provocative act as a "Christmas gift" to the US in protest of stalled nuclear negotiations, spurring speculation that it could be a new intercontinental ballistic missile  launch or similar testing of strategic weap

Next launch will mark war annversary, let NK people learn the truth, says head of anti-NK propaganda group

Troops spotted in North Korean outposts in DMZ

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thought that President Donald Trump's nuclear diplomacy with North Korea has "zero probability of success," Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton was quoted as saying in his unpublished memoir. In the book, titled "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," Bolton revealed that Pompeo made the remark a month after the historic 2018 summit between Trump and the North's leader Kim Jong-un, The New York Times reported o

The former chief of the UN inquiry into North Korean human rights abuses decried North Korea's recent "wanton, useless, tantrum-driven" destruction of a joint liaison office Thursday, calling for South Korea to reconsider its "old strategy" toward the recalcitrant regime. Michael Kirby, the former chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea, made the remarks during an online discussion organized by the civic group, the Committee for Human R

South Korea remains committed to stopping defector groups and activists from sending leaflets into North Korea, a unification ministry official said Thursday. North Korea has been lashing out at South Korea almost daily since early June over anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets flown from the South. Tensions further escalated when it blew up a joint liaison office earlier this week and vowed to beef up its military presence in the border areas. "The government's stance in stopping the flyi