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South Korean President Moon Jae-in relayed Japan’s hopes of normalizing ties with North Korea during his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Cheong Wa Dae said on Sunday. Kim’s reaction was unknown. On top of this, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his gratitude to President Moon for addressing at last week’s inter-Korean summit […]

Administrator of Korea Meteorological Administration (L) points at epicenter of seismic waves from apparent North Korean hydrogen bomb test, January 6, 2016 © Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters North Korea plans to close its nuclear weapons test site in May and give South Korean and US experts and the media access to the process, South Korea […]

srael will react with force if Russian air defense systems are used against its jets by troops belonging to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York City on Sunday. “No doubt we will take the action,”  Liberman stressed when asked by […]

US President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Yonhap) After South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un confirmed their commitment to the “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” the ball is now in the court of US President Donald Trump, who is planning to meet Kim in the coming weeks. […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to shut down the country’s nuclear test site in May and open the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul’s presidential office said Sunday. © Korea Summit Press Pool, AFP | This picture taken on April 27, 2018 shows North Korea’s […]

Suh Hoon, left, chief of South Korea’s national intelligence agency, wipes away tears as the leaders of the two Koreas announce the “Panmunjeom Declaration.” Suh played a key role in arranging the inter-Korean summit. / Joint Press Corps  Myriad photos and videos capturing symbolic moments of last week’s inter-Korean summit are flooding the internet. You […]

Lavrov and his Turkish and Iranian counterparts discussed how to end Syria’s war [Grigory Dukor/Reuters] Russian foreign minister says US, UK and France ignoring international law after recent missile attacks in Syria. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, has accused the US of trying to divide Syria while ignoring international law by launching missiles into the country. Lavrov made the accusations on […]

Pompeo was received upon his arrival by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. (SPA) Recently confirmed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in the Saudi capital of Riyadh to begin his first regional tour as his country’s top diplomat. Pompeo arrived in Brussels about 12 hours after he was sworn in as secretary of […]

Political scientist Cornelius Adebahr, a research fellow at Carnegie Europe, spoke to Euronews about what may be in store if the US pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal. Nearly four months ago, US President Donald Trump delivered an ultimatum on the Iranian nuclear deal to the three EU partners: “Either fix the deal’s disastrous […]

Turkey, which saw 32.4 million tourists coming to the country in 2017, looks to welcome 40 million tourists this year. Turkey welcomed around 5.1 million tourists in the first three months of this year, with an increase of around 35-36 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, which is an all-time high […]