PYONGYANG, May 22 (Xinhua) : The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Tuesday that the ongoing dialogue between the DPRK and the United States is the result of peace-making efforts by its top leader Kim Jong Un, rather than that of outside pressure.
The official Korean Central...
BEIJING, May 22 (AFP) : Foreign journalists headed to North Korea on Tuesday to watch the promised destruction of its nuclear test site, a move seen as a goodwill gesture before a planned summit with the United States. Reporters from China, the US and Russia departed on a charter flight from...
BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) : More than half of elderly Chinese prefer living with their children, and this number is higher in rural areas than urban ones, according to a recent survey report. A total of 56.4 percent of elderly surveyed in 2015 expressed their willingness to live with their...
HOUSTON, May 19 (Xinhua) : Ten people were killed and another ten wounded when a shooter opened fire inside Santa Fe High School in the southeast of Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas, Friday morning, Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed.
During a press briefing near the high school, Abbott said...
HAVANA, May 19 (Xinhua) : At least three people have been found alive, but in critical condition, after a Boeing 737 passenger plane with 104 passengers on board crashed near Havana on Friday, according to state newspaper Granma. Local media reported that more than 100 have died after the plane...
PYONGYANG, May 18 (Xinhua) : The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Thursday urged South Korea to stop its joint military drills with the United States and stop using northern defectors to attack Pyongyang, so that inter-Korean talks could be resumed.
Pyongyang suspended...
MEXICO CITY, May 15 (Xinhua) : A journalist was shot dead near his home on Tuesday in Villahermosa, the capital city of Mexico’s southeastern state of Tabasco. Juan Carlos Huerta, 45, was a host of a local radio news program and a nightly TV news show.
An armed man opened fire at Huerta...
PYONGYANG, May 16 (Xinhua) : The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said early Wednesday that it would suspend high-level talks with South Korea infinitely and threatened to withdraw from a scheduled meeting with the United States over an ongoing U.S.-South Korea joint military...
SEOUL, May 15 (Xinhua) : South Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have agreed to hold high-level talks on May 16 at the border village of Panmunjom, Seoul’s unification ministry said Tuesday.
High-level officials from the two sides will meet at Peace House, a...
New Delhi, May 14 (ANI) : Former prime minister Manmohan Singh has written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind in which he has condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘threat’ to the Indian National Congress (INC) during a speech in Hubli, Karnataka. Singh said Prime...
