By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 27 October 2007 North Korean Premier Kim Yong Il, the country's second highest-ranking leader after Kim Jong Il, arrived in Vietnam Friday evening on a rare trip abroad. Matt Steinglass reports from Hanoi the visit is mostly...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 24 October 2007 Senior South Korean officials say North Korea is ready to start dismantling key nuclear facilities within weeks. The moves are part of a multinational agreement aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs....
By Kurt Achin Seoul 09 October 2007 It has been a year since North Korea alarmed the world by demonstrating its nuclear weapons capability with an underground test. In the months since, multinational diplomacy dealing with North Korea's nuclear weapo...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 03 October 2007 South Korean officials say a summit between the leaders of North and South Korea will wrap up as scheduled, despite an extension offer by the North Korean leader. It remains unclear whether the two made any concret...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 02 October 2007 South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun received a personal, and unscheduled, greeting from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in the North Korean capital. VOA's Kurt Achin in Seoul has more on the start of their summit m...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 September 2007 The U.N. refugee agency says more people have been fleeing a fresh round of fighting this week in the Masisi district in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lisa Schlein reports from G...
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 27 September 2007 Diplomats have resumed talks on North Korea's nuclear programs in Beijing, hoping to finally agree on details of how to totally disable the country's nuclear facilities. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our As...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 September 2007 The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) says it is distributing desperately needed relief supplies to thousands of people displaced by fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern province of North...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 06 September 2007 Two days of talks between North Korea and Japan have drawn to a close in Mongolia with an agreement to meet again, but little else. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul the two sides had hoped to draw closer to no...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 September 2007 The United States and North Korea are holding bilateral talks in an ongoing process aimed at disabling North Korea's nuclear facilities. This is the latest in a series of working group sessions preparing the g...