A senior U.N. envoy arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, the world body's highest-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years, amid an international push to get it back to the nuclear negotiating table. North Korea's top nuclear envoy, Kim Kye Gwan ...

SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's top nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday as Pyongyang said it was willing to step up talks with China on resuming stalled disarmament-for-aid talks. The apparent shift by North Korea toward returning to six-party talks came a day after the North's leader, Kim Jong-il, pledged again to remove nuclear weapons from the ...

A special Chinese envoy held discussions with North Korean officials on Sunday, state media reported, amid international efforts to persuade the North to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks. Wang Jiarui, head of the liaison office of China's ruling Communist Party, flew to Pyongyang on Saturday for talks ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. missionary was on his way home on Saturday after he was freed by North Korea, which had detained him on Christmas day for illegally crossing the border. Robert Park's release clears an obstacle between North Korea and the United States, its main adversary, as pressure mounts on Pyongyang to end its year-long boycott of ...