How Koreans Are Reacting To Potential Meeting Between Trump And Kim Jong Un
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The possibility that the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea might actually speak face-to-face has sparked a hope. For the first time in a...
View ArticleThe View From Seoul On Trump-Kim Meeting: It May Never Happen, But It's Worth...
South Korea's 51 million people have been under existential threat for so long that they've largely normalized the risks posed to them by North Korea. After all, Seoul has been the target of...
View ArticleK-Pop Stars Red Velvet Set To Perform In Pyongyang This Weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CFBjAyPWE When it comes to inter-Korean relations, pop music — and politics — work in concert. North Korea sent a musical delegation to South Korea for the Winter...
View ArticleSouth Korea's Ex-President Sentenced To 24 Years For Corruption
A court in Seoul has found former South Korean President Park Geun-hye guilty on a raft of charges in the sprawling corruption case that led to her impeachment. She has been sentenced to 24 years in...
View ArticleLessons Of The North Korea 'Leap Day Deal'
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump is planning to sit down with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un sometime this spring. President Trump wants to discuss...
View ArticleJapan's Premier Visits Trump Amid Troubles Both Foreign And Domestic
Confronting the North Korea threat takes partners, and Japan is among America's most reliable allies in Asia. But lately, Japan is feeling increasingly left out. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is...
View Article'The Peace House' Is All Set For Kim Jong Un's First Summit In South Korea
South Koreans have painstakingly planned out the details ahead of North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South Korea's Moon Jae-in's summit at their shared border Friday, the culmination of a flurry of...
View ArticleNews Brief: Koreas Summit Begins, Bill Cosby Convicted, Pruitt's Future
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The leaders of North and South Korea are making history at the DMZ. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Yeah. Kim Jong Un became the first North Korean...
View ArticleKim, 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...
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