President Donald Trump hinted that US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis may be planning to quit his administration, and described the former U.S. Marine Corps general as “sort of a Democrat.” read more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Sunday to rekindle stalled denuclearisation talks following a landmark summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore. read more

US and North Korea agreed to “continue talks to decide on the specific time and location for the second summit”, Pompeo told South Korean President Moon Jae-in, following his meeting with Kim in Pyongyang earlier Sunday. read more

The dogs passed through the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) and the truce village of Panmunjom into South Korea on Thursday. read more

North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho on Saturday accused the United States of hindering peace efforts on the Korean peninsula with its insistence on enforcing tough economic sanctions against his country. read more

Former Chinese bureaucrat a pioneer of electric vehicles, decades before Musk read more

The shocks, which occurred on a previously unmapped nearby fault, are a window into both the physics of nuclear explosions. read more

Trump says secretary of state Mike Pompeo is working out the details for the second Trump-Kim meeting. read more

Acknowledging that North Korea has set a deadline of 2021 to denuclearise, Pompeo said in another interview that the US will set arbitrary deadlines in the interim. read more

South Korean President Moon Jae-in (2nd-R), and his wife Kim Jung-sook (R), stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (2nd-L), and his wife Ri Sol Ju on Mount Paektu in North Korea. There is no more sacred place in North Korea than Mount Paektu —and getting the South Korean President to such a spot is a propaganda coup unlike any other.

(Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP)read more

Kim Jong Un and MoonJae-in’s trip to the Paektu mountain on the North Korean-Chinese border, and the striking photo-op, followed a day of wide-ranging agreements they trumpeted as a major step toward peace. read more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have visited a crater lake atop a volcano considered sacred in North Korea on the last day of Moon’s visit for summit talks on the nuclear standoff and other inter-Korean affairs. Dressed in long black coats and accompanied by their wives, Kim and Moon raised their grasped hands while posing in front of the lake at Mount Paektu on Thursday. The leaders rode together in a cable car to reach the lake. Moon says relations between the rivals should improve so that more South Koreans can visit the volcano. Kim says Mount Paektu has become a “subject of yearning” for South Koreans and Koreans living abroad. Moon plans to return to the South later on Thursday.read more

The announcement came at a summit meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, between President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un. read more

The United States appeared eager to seize on commitments by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at his talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in even as critics said the steps did little to put Pyongyang on a course for irreversible denuclearization. read more

US president Donald Trump has maintained that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have a solid relationship, and both leaders have expressed interest in a follow-up summit to their meeting in June in Singapore. read more