Topic: Pyongyang

Clinton briefs top US official on North Korea trip

Ex-president Bill Clinton has given a top US official an initial readout on his North Korea trip and plans to conduct a more formal and in-depth debriefing for the White House, officials said Thursday.Clinton spoke to a member of President Barack Obama's ...

Bill Clinton meets NKorea's Kim on historic trip

Former US president Bill Clinton on Tuesday met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for " exhaustive" talks during a surprise mercy mission to Pyongyang to win the release of two jailed female US journalists.North Korean state media said Clinton had delivered a ...

White House denies Obama message to Kim Jong-Il

The White House denied reports on Tuesday that former president Bill Clinton handed over a message from President Barack Obama to hardline North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. "That's not true," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said when asked about the reports by ...
The US Senate said Wednesday that North Korea poses a " threat" to its neighbors and mandated a review to see whether Washington should return the secretive regime to a US terrorism blacklist.By a vote of 66-31, lawmakers asked President Barack Obama ...

US considers returning N.Korea to terror list

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday the United States is " going to look at" putting North Korea back on its list of countries that sponsor terrorism following Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests.In an interview with ABC television, the top US ...
North Korea is holding up progress on ending its nuclear drive by refusing to accept a proposed verification accord, US and South Korean envoys said as disarmament talks remained deadlocked Thursday.Negotiators from six nations seeking to end the impasse over the communist ...

North Korea: neutral instead of nuclear

The two Korean heads of state met for the first time in June 2000 in Pyongyang. Yet three days later the Treasury Department, operating under the disputed USA Patriot Act, sanctioned North Korea for its allegedly illegal dealings with the Banco Delta ...