By Lisa Schlein Geneva 31 August 2007 A senior United States envoy says he is hopeful progress will be made toward scrapping North Korea's nuclear arsenal during bilateral U.S.-North Korean talks over the weekend. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA, the ta...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 August 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is launching an emergency operation this week for thousands of people who have fled renewed fighting between government and rebel forces in North Kivu in the E...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 24 August 2007 South Korea has announced another aid package for North Korea following reports of serious flood damage there. After sending more immediately needed items like water and noodles, Seoul says it will now send heavy ma...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 August 2007 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $5.5 million to head-off a potential health crisis in flood-stricken North Korea. The Swiss agency reports North Korea's healt...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 21 August 2007 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, center, stands with President Bush, left, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada have wrapped up a two-day summit at...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 18 August 2007 North and South Korea have postponed a summit planned for later this month. North Korea asked for the delay until October because of extensive flood damage in the impoverished communist nation. VOA's Kurt Achin repo...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 15 August 2007 A team representing several U.N. humanitarian agencies is in North Korea to investigate damage from heavy flooding. A U.N. spokesman says floodwaters may have done extensive damage to crops, further worsening the N...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 10 August 2007 Leaders from North and South Korea plan to meet this month in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, despite hints at a summit seven years ago that the next one would take place in Seoul. As VOA Seoul correspondent Ku...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 06 August 2007 South Korean authorities have agreed to raise wages at a North-South joint venture in North Korea for the first time since the experimental zone was opened three years ago. The Kaesong venture is hailed in South Kor...
By David Gollust Washington 23 July 2007 The U.S. envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program says completing the next phase of the disarmament process is still feasible by year's end, even though talks in Beijing last week failed t...