- 10:56 13/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti)
China, Japan and South Korea have warned they will not accept new nuclear tests by North Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said on Sunday.
- 14:47 04/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
A nuclear-armed Iran, Pakistan and North Korea could potentially trigger regional chain reactions that ultimately threaten Russia's security, the former director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, said.
- 02:11 26/03/2012 SEOUL, March 26 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss the North Korean nuclear problem with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak on the sidelines of the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, which opens on Monday.
- 02:41 20/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 20 (RIA Novosti)
The United States has welcomed North Korea’s move to invite UN nuclear experts to resume monitoring its nuclear program, but cautioned Pyongyang against a planned satellite launch.
- 12:56 05/03/2012 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
North Korea has agreed to suspend its missile and nuclear programs in exchange for food aid from the United States. But North Korea has made progress in its military projects over the course of the past several years. Is Pyongyang serious about abandoning its achievements for food aid?
- 21:28 01/03/2012 Ivan Zakharchenko, RIA Novosti
North Korea has agreed to a nuclear and missile moratorium and to allow IAEA inspectors back into the country, the U.S. State Department triumphantly announced following talks with North Korea. But this is just the latest episode in this endless and tedious soap opera.
- 12:01 01/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 1 (RIA Novosti)
Russia welcomes the decision by North Korea to hold a moratorium on testing nuclear weapons which will help renew the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 11:18 21/12/2011 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
News of the death of Kim Jong-il was accompanied by conspicuous muscle flexing by the North Korean military. The “Dear Leader” left behind an enormous war machine, the maintenance of which consumes the bulk of the country’s daily activities. How does this machine work and what does the future hold for it?
- 06:54 20/12/2011 WASHINGTON, December 20 (RIA Novosti)
The United States will exchange information on the North Korean nuclear program with Russia and other partners from among the six international intermediaries
- 17:00 27/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti)
Representatives of South Korea and North Korea are holding talks with Russian officials in Moscow on resuming six-party talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear program, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.
- 04:18 26/10/2011 WASHINGTON, October 26 (RIA Novosti)
Talks between delegations from the United States and North Korea in Switzerland’s Geneva this week were constructive, but yielded no particular results
- 10:15 25/10/2011 BEIJING, October 25 (RIA Novosti)
North Korea is ready to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program without preliminary conditions, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 14:27 24/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti)
The United States and North Korea started talks in Geneva on Monday designed at resuming deadlocked nuclear negotiations, the Yonhap news agency reported.
- 16:01 21/09/2011 BEIJING, September 21 (RIA Novosti)
The chief nuclear envoys for North and South Korea met in Beijing on Wednesday but failed to agree on a possible revival of the stalled six-nation talks on ending the North's nuclear weapons programs.
- 11:59 21/09/2011 BEIJING, September 21 (RIA Novosti)
The chief nuclear envoys for North and South Korea met in Beijing to discuss a possible revival of the stalled six-nation talks on ending the North's nuclear weapons programs, world media said on Wednesday.
- 11:00 16/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti)
Top nuclear negotiators from North and South Korea will meet in Beijing next week to resume talks on the North's nuclear program, Yonhap News said citing a South Korean official on Friday.
- 01:53 07/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti)
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan will pay a three-day official visit to Moscow on August 7-9 to discuss North Korea's nuclear program among other issues with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
- 22:32 02/08/2011 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
South Korea could be an obstacle to solving the North Korean nuclear problem, even though the U.S. and North Korean deputy foreign ministers say they are satisfied with the results of their recent meeting.
- 07:42 01/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti)
North Korea said on Monday it was ready to resume six-party talks on its controversial nuclear program soon and without preconditions, Xinhua reported citing the North's official KCNA news agency.
- 01:00 30/07/2011 NEW YORK, July 30 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. and North Korean diplomats concluded on Friday their two-day talks in New York that both sides called "constructive."
- 07:43 23/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti)
South and North Korean foreign ministers, Kim Sung-hwan and Pak Ui-chun, held a brief meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of an ASEAN forum in Bali, Indonesia
- 16:09 22/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 22 (RIA Novosti)
South and North Korea have agreed to take joint efforts to resume the stalled six-party talks on ending the North's nuclear program "as soon as possible," Yonhap news agency said on Friday
- 10:07 22/07/2011 BALI, July 22 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow hails North Korea's readiness to resume six-party talks on the country's controversial nuclear issue without any preconditions, Russia's top diplomat said on Friday.
- 03:35 24/06/2011 WASHINGTON, June 24 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama has extended sanctions against North Korea for another year citing Pyongyang's continuing threat to stability on the Korean Peninsula.
- 09:45 18/05/2011
A delegation of Russian diplomats led by Foreign Intelligence Service head Mikhail Fradkov held talks on Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, the Korean Central News Agency said.
- 04:13 13/04/2011
The reclusive communist regime in North Korea will not abandon its nuclear program under any circumstances, the commander of U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula said.
- 09:12 15/03/2011
North Korea is prepared to renew six-party talks on its nuclear program without any "preliminary conditions," South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 15:22 14/03/2011
North Korea should return to nuclear negotiations and allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to the country's nuclear facilities, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
- 08:16 04/03/2011
Beijing opposes any preconditions for the resumption of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, China's s special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei said on Friday.
- 09:13 20/02/2011
North Korea has been digging special tunnels at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in the northern Hamgyong province, sparking concerns that it may be preparing for new nuclear tests, South Korea's news agency Yonhap reported on Sunday, citing government and military sources.
- 11:31 28/01/2011
North Korea will not halt its nuclear activities as long as there is a confrontation with the United States, Kim Jong-nam, the country's leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son who resides in Macao, said in an interview with a Japanese newspaper.
- 16:58 06/01/2011
China on Thursday called for the resumption of six-party negotiations on the Korean nuclear issue.
- 12:12 21/12/2010
China has called on North Korea to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to monitor the country's nuclear facilities, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Tuesday.
- 09:11 20/12/2010
North Korea has allowed UN nuclear inspections to resume after talks with visiting New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, CNN reported on Monday.
- 16:29 17/12/2010
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send inspectors to monitor North Korean nuclear facilities once it reaches an agreement with Pyongyang, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said on Friday.
- 21:58 13/12/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed concern on Monday over North Korea's recent nuclear revelations.
- 07:44 30/11/2010
The UN Security Council may consider "toughening sanctions against North Korea for its uranium enrichment facility" on Tuesday.
- 22:11 29/11/2010
The United Stated called on the UN Security Council on Monday to tighten sanctions against North Korea over the secretive state's nuclear activities and artillery attack on South Korea last week.
- 13:37 23/11/2010
China wants to see a resumption of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, a spokesman for Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 17:20 22/11/2010
New revelations on North Korea's uranium enrichment program are provocative, but not a full-fledged crisis, the U.S. special envoy for the secretive communist state said on Monday, regional media report.
- 11:41 18/11/2010
North Korea is likely to prepare a new underground nuclear test explosion, the Russian Trud daily said on Thursday citing Japanese Kyodo news agency.
- 10:38 18/11/2010
North Korea is likely to prepare a new underground nuclear test explosion, the Russian Trud daily said on Thursday citing Japanese Kyodo news agency.
- 15:54 13/11/2010
North Korea is building an experimental light-water reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear research center, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
- 20:31 20/10/2010
North Korea is in favor of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and is ready to abide by the agreements reached at the 2005 six-party talks in Beijing, Pyongyang's acting Charge d'Affaires in Russia, O Seung-Ho, said on Wednesday.
- 18:11 20/10/2010
International mediators are preparing to resume six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 15:59 14/10/2010
China urged again on Thursday the resumption of six-party talks on dismantling North Korea's nuclear program to ensure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
- 23:06 29/09/2010
North Korea vowed on Wednesday to strengthen its nuclear forces due to the threat posed by the United States.
- 17:40 30/08/2010
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has expressed hope for an early resumption of the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear program during talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao in China, Xinhua said on Monday.
- 15:48 11/08/2010
What kind of measures should be taken to resolve the conflict on the Korean Peninsula? Is it possible to reunite the two Koreas after a 50-year-long standoff? And is there any real threat of a nuclear catastrophe? Vagif Guseinov, President of the Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis, shares his opinions in an interview with Samir Shakhbaz.
- 05:34 22/05/2010
North Korea accused the U.S. of trying to prevent the resumption of six-party talks on on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue after Washington condemned the North for sinking a South Korean warship.
- 06:23 12/05/2010
North Korea announced on Wednesday it has successfully carried out a nuclear fusion experiment in a further development of cutting-edge nuclear technology, the Yonhap news agency reported.
- 07:50 07/05/2010
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reiterated his commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
- 14:38 14/04/2010
North Korea sees the building of trustful relations with the United States as an immediate solution to its nuclear concerns, North Korean state run newspaper Rodong Sinmun said.
- 19:32 30/03/2010
North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear program and Russia has to take this fact into account to adjust its policy towards the reclusive Communist state, Russian experts said on Tuesday.
- 16:18 30/03/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on Russia implementing beefed-up UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea over a nuclear test last year.
- 07:53 26/03/2010
North Korea said on Friday it would retaliate with "unprecedented nuclear strikes" if anyone attempts to provoke instability in the country.
- 19:15 25/03/2010
North Korea left the six-party talks and announced the resumption of its nuclear program.
- 08:16 09/03/2010
North Korea said on Tuesday it would boost its nuclear capability in response to what it considers "continuing U.S. military threats and provocations," the Yonhap news agency said, citing the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
- 06:07 12/02/2010
North Korea's top nuclear negotiator plans to discuss the resumption of six-party talks on his country's nuclear program during his visit to the U.S. in March.
- 09:53 09/02/2010
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated that his country is willing to continue efforts toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.
- 23:09 15/01/2010
North Korea has threatened to stop dialogue with South Korean authorities following Seoul's adoption of a contingency plan in case of instability in North Korea.
- 14:22 12/01/2010
Pyongyang has asked Washington to decide on the format of peace treaty talks, North Korea's ambassador to Russia, Kim Yong-Jae, said on Tuesday.
- 11:28 11/01/2010
North Korea said on Monday it wanted talks with the United States on a peace treaty to replace the ceasefire that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War as a condition to restart nuclear disarmament negotiations.
- 04:37 01/01/2010
North Korea stressed dialogue in improving relations with the United States as a key step toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula in a New Year's message on Friday
- 14:22 17/12/2009
UN sanctions against North Korea must continue until it halts its nuclear program, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin said on Thursday.
- 01:00 17/12/2009
The five nations involved in talks with North Korea over its nuclear program support the ongoing sanctions against the communist state, a U.S. diplomat has said.
- 21:45 14/12/2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the observance of sanctions against Pyongyang following last week's seizure in Thailand of a cargo plane loaded with North Korean weapons.
- 14:15 14/12/2009
The United States will only agree to sign a peace treaty with North Korea if Pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program, a U.S. diplomat said.
- 17:35 11/12/2009
North Korea will not agree to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program until the United States agrees to a peace treaty, a pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Friday.
- 12:46 11/12/2009
Washington's point man on the North Korean nuclear issue will visit Moscow next week for talks with Russian diplomats, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 06:19 26/11/2009
Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie has met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during the current visit to boost ties with a reclusive communist regime
- 15:19 19/11/2009
China welcomes the upcoming visit by a U.S. envoy to North Korea, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 06:17 14/11/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama said his country and the international community "will not be cowed" by North Korea's nuclear program, according to a transcript of his speech in Tokyo, released by The Washington Post.
- 02:38 10/11/2009
The U.S. and Russian presidents will discuss strategic arms cuts, as well as North Korea and Iran, during a meeting in Singapore during the weekend, the White House said Monday.
- 17:59 06/11/2009
North Korea's weaponizing of plutonium at its Yongbyon reactor should not be 'dramatized,' a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday
- 18:20 02/11/2009
North Korea is insisting that the U.S. take part in bilateral talks or it will go its "own way" with its nuclear program, the Korea Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
- 03:14 25/10/2009
Senior U.S. and North Korean negotiators held a meeting on Saturday in New York to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the resumption of stalled nuclear talks.
- 07:23 14/10/2009
The United States wants North Korea to return to six-nations talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a U.S. assistant secretary of state said.
- 17:27 08/10/2009
Russia believes direct contacts between North Korea and the United States could provide a breakthrough in multilateral negotiations on ending the North's nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said.
- 07:48 04/10/2009
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in North Korea on a three-day official visit on Sunday.
- 03:57 28/09/2009
U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton has praised Russia's willingness to cooperate with the West on taking a tougher stand on Iran and N. Korea over their nuclear ambitions.
- 23:58 23/09/2009
Speaking to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, Lee said that North Korea should rejoin talks on its nuclear program.
- 21:09 23/09/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama warned the leaders of North Korea and Iran on Wednesday that they would be "held accountable" if they continued to disregard international law.
- 20:35 18/09/2009
Alexander Zhebin, head of the Korean Studies Department at the Institute of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 09:58 18/09/2009
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met on Friday with a special envoy of the Chinese president, the countries' state media reported.
- 04:17 12/09/2009
The U.S. Department of State has voiced its readiness to begin bilateral talks with North Korea in order to bring the reclusive communist state back to nuclear negotiations within the six-party format.
- 09:14 04/09/2009
North Korea has begun the final stage of uranium enrichment, a method of producing nuclear weapons.
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