President Barack Obama announced that the ROK will host the second Nuclear Security Summit in 2012 saying it “reflects South Korea’s leadership regionally, and globally.” Lee Myung-bak seems to have had two good days in […]
Kim Song Gi, recently a diplo at the DPRK’s Beijing Embassy, is MOFA’s new vice minister. He was identified in his new position when he appeared at a welcoming event for the new Chinese Ambassador, […]
JoongAng Daily citing an unnamed Beijing-based DPRK official reports that the DPRK will return to the Six Party Talks in early April: While recently meeting with a reporter, this official stated “North Korea having decided […]
Yonhap’s Hwang Doo-hyong reports of a possible DPRK return to the Six Party Talks in March or April: North Korea will likely come back to the six-party talks on its nuclear programs within a matter […]
Kim Jong-il received Wang Jiarui in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province. The KCNA report was pretty much the same one issued last year. Xinhua reports, “The Chinese president also invited Kim to visit China, once again.” […]
Update 1.) Kim Jong-il met with CCP International Director Wang Jiarui. 2.) The inter-Korean meeting ended without an agreement and a joint statement from North Korea’s Ministry of Public Security and State Security Departments: “We […]
Yomiuri Shimbun reports that the US State Department, according to its sources, may approve entry visas for members of the DPRK’s State Symphony Orchestra to give a concert, and a visit by senior MOFA officials […]