The United States and North Korea have both indicated a willingness to hold another summit meeting while concurrently downplaying its likelihood. Pyongyang rejects working-level meetings that would lay the necessary groundwork for a detailed agreement, although Secretary of State Michael Pompeo commented that bilateral communication has occurred. Rampant speculation continues, however, of either a significant North Korean provocation or an abrupt summit to sign a minimalist denuclearization accord or a symbolic peace treaty before the U.S. presidential election.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for stronger "self-defence" measures to tackle "very serious" security challenges as he presided over a key ruling party session earlier this week, Pyongyang s state media reported on .
Seoul, June 11 (EFE).- North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has called for boosting “national defense capability” in the face of further ‘aggravation’ on the Korean Peninsula. Kim launched the message on Friday at the close of this key plenary meeting to decide organizational issues and political priorities of the regime held at a time marked …
North and South Korea have reopened a hotline that was closed for nearly 14 months. "We hope that inter-Korean communications are never again suspended," a South Korean official said.