TEHRAN (defapress) - South Korea on Saturday agreed to meet North Korea next week over the latter's plan to send an art troupe south of the border during the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
News ID: 68071 Publish Date : 2018/01/13
South Korea:
TEHRAN (defapress)- North Korea accepted Seoul's offer to hold talks next Tuesday to discuss Pyongyang's participation in the Winter Olympics and other matters of mutual interest, according to South Korea's Ministry of Unification.
News ID: 67942 Publish Date : 2018/01/06
PM:
TEHRAN (defapress) – The security situation facing Japan is the most perilous since World War Two because of North Korea’s “unacceptable” provocations, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, vowing to bolster defenses to protect the Japanese people.
News ID: 67901 Publish Date : 2018/01/04
TEHRAN (defapress)- South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said Tuesday that Seoul is proposing to hold high-level talks on January 9 with Pyongyang at the demilitarized zone between the two countries.
News ID: 67865 Publish Date : 2018/01/02
TEHRAN (defapress)- South Korea sounded optimistic about the potential for talks between North Korea and the United States in 2018, despite the tense situation over the Pyongyang nuclear program.
News ID: 67757 Publish Date : 2017/12/27
Kremlin:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that Moscow is ready to act as a mediator between the United States and North Korea, but the conflicting sides should give their consent to this.
News ID: 67744 Publish Date : 2017/12/26
Report:
TEHRAN (defapress) - North Korea is preparing to launch a satellite, a Seoul newspaper said Tuesday, as outside observers warn that the nuclear-armed regime's space programme is a fig leaf for weapons tests.
News ID: 67729 Publish Date : 2017/12/26
Russian FM:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Washington wants to strangle Pyongyang until it submits, adding that Moscow will not back such an approach and will continue to seek a way to integrate North Korea into the world community, not isolate it.
News ID: 67720 Publish Date : 2017/12/25
TEHRAN (defapress) - North Korea will continue enhancing its nuclear defensive potential and the United States should put up with the idea that Pyongyang won’t give up these weapons, its Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
News ID: 67697 Publish Date : 2017/12/24
North Korea:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Pyongyang said on Friday US President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy unveiled this week is a “criminal document” that seeks the “total subordination of the whole world to the interests of the US”
News ID: 67669 Publish Date : 2017/12/23
Boris Johnson:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Foreign secretary Boris Johnson warned the missiles being developed by North Korea could hit the UK within six months.
News ID: 67541 Publish Date : 2017/12/16
TEHRAN (defapress) - The White House and State Department both stated Wednesday that the US is not ready to begin talks with North Korea, a day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had suggested the two sides could start negotiating without preconditions.
News ID: 67487 Publish Date : 2017/12/14
TEHRAN (defapress) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said North Korea is open to direct talks with the US and passed that message on to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
News ID: 67353 Publish Date : 2017/12/09
North Korea:
TEHRAN (defapress)- North Korea said it does not seek war with the United States but Washington’s threats against the North have made the outbreak of war in the Korean Peninsula an “established fact,” and Pyongyang will not be hiding from a potential conflict.
News ID: 67303 Publish Date : 2017/12/07
TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev admitted that Pyongyang’s behavior has put Russia at risk, but noted that Russia will not allow military action against North Korea.
News ID: 67210 Publish Date : 2017/12/01
US:
TEHRAN (defapress) – US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley on Wednesday said North Korea's latest missile test brings Washington and Pyongyang "closer to war."
News ID: 67191 Publish Date : 2017/11/30
TEHRAN (defapress) – North Korea said it had successfully tested a powerful new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that put all of the US mainland within range, declaring it had achieved its long-held goal of becoming a nuclear power.
News ID: 67178 Publish Date : 2017/11/29
TEHRAN (defapress) – North Korea violated an armistice agreement with South Korea this month when North Korean soldiers shot and wounded a North Korean soldier as he defected across their border and it must not do so again, South Korea’s defense minister said on Monday.
News ID: 67161 Publish Date : 2017/11/27
TEHRAN (defapress) – China’s trade with North Korea fell in October to $334.9 million, its lowest since February, as imports shrank to their weakest in years, data showed on Thursday, the latest sign that sanctions have crimped business with its isolated neighbor.
News ID: 67109 Publish Date : 2017/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress)- North Korea’s state media criticized US President Donald Trump for insulting leader Kim Jong-Un, saying the US president deserved the death penalty and calling him a coward for cancelling a visit to the inter-Korean border.
News ID: 67015 Publish Date : 2017/11/16