Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautiously welcomed Seoul's announcement that Pyongyang had offered to hold denuclearisation talks with the United States in return for security guarantees.

China urges US, North Korea to hold talks 'sooner than later'

The US president said "statements coming out of South Korea and North Korea have been very positive."

Possible progress made in talks with North Korea, tweets Trump

South Korean officials met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday in the first such encounter of its kind and said he had expressed his willingness to denuclearise if his country's security is assured

South Korea's Moon says sanctions on North to stay, too early to be optimistic

The finding triggers another layer of US economic sanctions against Pyongyang, just as South Korea reported that the regime is ready for talks to end a nuclear standoff

US finds North Korea killed Kim's brother with VX agent

Kim's discussions with the South Korean delegation lasted more than four hours,

North Korea ready for 'inter-Korean ties and pursue reunification', says Kim during meeting with South Korean delegation

WION Morning News Brief, March 6, 2018

The envoy said Kim was willing to hold frank denuclearization talks with the US.

No need for nuclear weapons if we have security guarantee: North Korea

The news was confirmed by South Korea's presidential office

South, North Korea to hold summit in April: Seoul

WION Evening News Brief, March 6, 2018

Kim Yo Jong had invited South Korean president Moon Jae-in to North Korea even as its close ally the US kept itself away from Kim's sister.

In new peace initiative after Winter Olympics, South Korean officials leave for North Korea

North Korea said it was not begging to talk with Washington and denounced upcoming US-South Korean joint-military exercises, warning that it would take counter measures against the United States if they went ahead

South Korea sending envoys to North Korea as Trump suggests US willing to talk

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send a team of special envoys -- including Seoul's spy chief -- to the North on Monday to push for talks between Washington and Pyongyang on nuclear weapons

South Korea to send envoys to North on Monday

The United States is due to start joint exercises in early April, a South Korean presidential security adviser said this week according to Yonhap news agency - the latest in a series of drills that the north has regularly described as a threat

North Korea threatens US against joint military exercises with South Korea

The state-run television KRT cited a spokesman at the foreign ministry's research institute of American studies arguing that the United States made a "nonsensical argument" that it helped Syria produce chemical weapons

North Korea denies chemical weapons link with Syria

The two presidents also 'agreed to maintain the momentum in inter-Korean dialogue and to continue efforts so it leads to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula'

Will send special envoy to North Korea: South Korea to Trump

Nasheed further noted that Yameen allowed ships to transfer cargo to North Korean ships on the high seas

Maldives: Former President Nasheed alleges President Yameen of violating UN sanctions on North Korea

WION Morning News Brief, February 28, 2018

The allegations come after fresh reports of chlorine gas being used by Syrian forces, which the regime denies.

North Korea 'providing materials to Syria chemical weapons factories': UN experts

The statement concluded saying that the Maldivian authorities do not allow flag of convenience to foreign-owned vessels to operate outside Maldivian waters

Maldives snubs claims of violating UN sanctions on North Korea

Kyung-wha kept his views in front of the Conference on Disarmament at the UN in Geneva

Sanctions do not aim to bring down North Korea, says South Korea

The closing ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games took place in Pyeongchang on Sunday

Watch: Pyeongchang Winter Olympics ends with fireworks; Norway, Germany finish on top

The North Korean delegation, in Pyeongchang for the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, met at an undisclosed location with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and expressed a willingness to meet with the United States, Moon`s office said in a statement

White House: Talks with North Korea must lead to ending of nuclear program

North should allow peace to take root on the divided peninsula, said South Korea

South Korea urges North to abandon nuclear weapons, allow family visits

The US request to a UN sanctions committee, came as President Donald Trump announced Friday the 'heaviest sanctions ever' on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile tests

US seeks UN ban on 33 ships, 27 firms over North Korea smuggling

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