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 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 17 August 2007 South Korea has announced a multi-million dollar aid package for North Korea, where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering because of floods. The United States has also pledged to send help. VOA's Kurt Achin...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 August 2007 South Korea says two hostages freed by Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan are now under South Korean protection. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, where authorities still face the problem of getting 19 other capti...
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 09 August 2007 South Korea's top official in charge of North Korea policy says a planned summit will boost multinational efforts to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul. Lee Jae-joung, ce...
1:45 AM, the 38th parallel, along the border of North and South Korea. The 148-mile-long border is the most heavily militarized in the world. This joint South Korean-American platoon is on constant alert for infiltrators from the North. Behind these...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 26 July 2007 South Korea says kidnappers who killed a South Korean hostage in Afghanistan will be held accountable for their actions. As family and friends of the victim mourn, South Korean negotiators are trying to save the lives...
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...
By Daniel Schearf Beijing 18 July 2007 The South Korean delegate to talks on denuclearizing North Korea says Pyongyang is prepared to declare and disable all its nuclear programs by the end of the year. The chief U.S. negotiator, meanwhile, says the...