Kim, Moon Pledge Denuclearization Of Peninsula And End To Korean War
Updated at 5:05 a.m. ET Following a historic meeting between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the leaders appeared side by side to make an extraordinary announcement:...
View ArticleTrump Should Win The Nobel Peace Prize, South Korea's Moon Says
Congratulated for an apparent breakthrough in relations between South Korea and North Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said, "It's President Trump who should receive the Nobel Prize." The...
View ArticleNorth Korea Summit With Trump In Doubt Because Of Military Exercises
Updated at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday North Korea said it is canceling high-level talks with South Korea planned for Wednesday at their shared border area because of ongoing military exercises between the...
View ArticleNews Brief: North Korea Summit In Doubt, Primary Results, Net Neutrality
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It was going to be historic, the leaders of the United States and North Korea sitting down for the first time to talk about peace on the...
View ArticleAs Trump-Kim Summit Approaches, South Korea's Leader Heads To White House
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in is in Washington to meet with President Trump, as plans for a high-stakes summit next month between the U.S. president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hit some...
View ArticleTrump Cancels U.S.-North Korea Summit
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Well, it looks like the summit is now off. President Trump has canceled his proposed meeting with the leader of North Korea. This announcement...
View ArticleHow South Korea Is Reacting To the Cancellation Of U.S.-North Korea Summit
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: To get a sense of how today's announcement is playing in South Korea, let's turn now to NPR's Elise Hu in Seoul. Hi, Elise. ELISE HU, BYLINE:...
View ArticleTrump Says North Korea Summit Plans 'Moving Along' After Surprise Moon-Kim...
Updated 2:55 a.m. ET Sunday Hours after a surprise meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas aimed at shoring up diplomacy, President Trump seemed to keep hope alive for a summit with Kim Jong Un...
View ArticleSouth Korea's Moon: Kim Jong Un Still Committed To Denuclearization
A topsy-turvy week on the Korean peninsula ended with a secret Saturday summit between the rival Korean leaders, in which North Korea's Kim Jong Un again made a commitment to denuclearization. That's...
View ArticleWhat Summit? On North Korean TV, The News Is All About Rice Farming
Around the world, the flurry of diplomatic efforts to salvage the June 12 summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dominated headlines. But there's one place where...
View ArticleWill Trump Raise North Korea's Human Rights Abuses At Summit With Kim Jong Un?
President Trump will meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un next week in Singapore, in an effort to resolve the nuclear threat posed by Pyongyang. But in the lead-up to that summit, the threat the...
View ArticleU.S. And North Korea Negotiators Hold Last Minute Meetings Ahead Of Summit
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The sitting leaders of North Korea and the United States have never met before. And in just a little while, this historic first will take place...
View ArticleAn Upbeat Trump Praises Kim's Commitment To Denuclearize After Singapore Summit
Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET Tuesday President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a broad statement Tuesday that calls for a "firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of...
View ArticleWhat Action Follows Trump-Kim Summit May Be Even More Important
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump and Kim Jong Un have signed an agreement to move towards what President Trump has described as the, quote, "complete...
View ArticleU.S.-North Korea Summit Is One For The History Books
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: History happened here today as President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader greeted each other in front of flags from both of their...
View ArticleNews Brief: Pompeo In Asia, DOJ Reports On Clinton Email Investigation
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to get a much-awaited report later today coming from the Justice Department. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Yeah. These are the findings of...
View ArticleAnti-Refugee Backlash In South Korea Targets Yemenis Fleeing War And Seeking...
Fleeing war, more than 500 Yemenis arrived earlier this year in an unlikely place — a tiny South Korean resort island. They're hoping to be granted asylum so they can stay in South Korea, but as they...
View ArticleFor Wildfire Evacuees, Bureaucratic Nightmare Begins
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Northern California, a grim reality is setting in. The tens of thousands of residents who've had to flee the wildfires there know that...
View ArticleThousands Of Fire Evacuees To Spend The Holiday Without Homes
Evacuee Roxanne Peters had planned to prepare food tomorrow, for Thanksgiving dinner. "I was celebrating at two different houses. We were invited to two different places, and I was cooking, you know,...
View ArticleThe Sex Scandals Shaking K-Pop And A Reckoning Over How South Korea Regards...
A total of four Korean entertainers have abruptly retired from the industry this week, in a widening scandal linking the glossy world of K-pop with a series of seedy sex crimes. The biggest players —...
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