- 16:32 21/01/2011
Russia has welcomed plans for North and South Korea to start military talks in an effort to end months of confrontation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin said on Friday.
- 15:30 20/01/2011
South Korea has accepted the North's proposal to hold high-level military talks, Yonhap news agency said on Thursday.
- 13:55 20/01/2011
North Korea on Thursday offered South Korea to hold talks on the level of defense ministers to discuss "pending" military issues between the two countries, Yonhap news agency said, citing Seoul's Defense Ministry.
- 16:35 16/01/2011
North Korea reiterated its call for talks with South Korea, seeking an end to the confrontation on the peninsula, the Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
- 03:50 10/01/2011
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will hold drills in the East China Sea involving U.S. warships on Monday.
- 11:31 06/01/2011
South Korea has dismissed an offer from the North of talks to ease rising tensions as "propaganda."
- 18:16 05/01/2011
North Korea proposed South to start "unconditional and early" talks between the countries, Yonhap news agency said citing a statement from the North.
- 17:44 03/01/2011
The Foreign Ministry of Japan on Monday dismissed information that its head Seiji Maehara in an interview with a South Korean paper has expressed hopes for security alliance with Seoul, the Japanese news agency Kyodo said.
- 08:09 03/01/2011
Japan wants to establish an alliance with South Korea to ensure security in East Asia against a backdrop of possible provocations from North Korea, the Japanese foreign minister, Seiji Maehara, said.
- 23:53 23/12/2010
South Korean military forces completed live-fire military exercises in just 40 minutes on Thursday. They were conducted near Pocheon, located 30 km south of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
- 17:22 23/12/2010
North Korea threatened on Thursday to launch a "sacred" nuclear war against South Korea if it attacks, as Seoul staged military exercises that have raised already high tensions on the peninsula.
- 15:43 23/12/2010
North Korea warned on Thursday of a "holy war" using its nuclear deterrent, following the largest-ever military drills by the South earlier today.
- 10:20 23/12/2010
South Korea staged on Thursday what it said was its largest-ever military drills amid increasing tensions with the North.
- 08:46 23/12/2010
South Korea held military live fire exercises near the border with North Korea on Thursday morning, YTN Korean television reported.
- 22:23 20/12/2010
The U.S. State Department praised on Monday Pyongyang's decision not to respond to South Korean military drills.
- 19:40 19/12/2010
The United Nations Security Council started holding an emergency meeting on Sunday at Russia's request to address mounting tensions on the Korean peninsula.
- 09:48 19/12/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi synchronized their position on the Korean crisis and urged the parties to show restraint and solve all controversial issues by peaceful means, China's Foreign Ministry reported on Sunday.
- 22:31 18/12/2010
China on Saturday urged the traditional participants of the Korean six-party talks to hold urgent consultations to help abate tensions between North and South Koreas and avoid yet another armed conflict.
- 19:20 18/12/2010
The Russian delegation to the UN on Saturday summoned an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the UN said.
- 07:49 18/12/2010
Bad weather is likely to delay South Korea's artillery drills planned to take place on the island in the Yellow Sea that was attacked by North Korea last month.
- 21:51 17/12/2010
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday expressed its concern to North Korea's ambassador Kim Jong-Jae over the reclusive communist state's promise to use military force should its rival South Korea hold live-fire drills in the Yellow Sea.
- 15:46 17/12/2010
North Korea warned South Korea on Friday over plans to hold live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong Island, saying its response would be "deadlier" than shelling in November that killed four people.
- 15:33 16/12/2010 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
On Wednesday night, South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Wi Sung-lac departed from Moscow after talks at the Russian Foreign Ministry, two days after North Korean Foreign Minister Park Ui Chun had been there.
- 12:34 16/12/2010
South Korea plans this weekend to hold artillery drills on the island in the Yellow Sea that was attacked by North Korea last month, the Yonhap news agency said on Thursday.
- 07:21 08/12/2010
Distant artillery fire was heard early on Wednesday near the tense Yellow Sea border between North and South Korea.
- 11:23 07/12/2010
China is not going to take either side in the standoff on the Korean Peninsula, but says dialogue is the only way out as tensions mount between the two Koreas.
- 15:59 06/12/2010
Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama to help defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula, warning they could otherwise escalate and get out of hand.
- 11:48 04/12/2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will discuss North Korea in a meeting with the South Korean and Japanese foreign ministers on Monday, CNN reported.
- 07:42 03/12/2010
Japan and the United States launched on Friday their biggest ever joint military exercises amid tensions on the Korean peninsula.
- 12:36 02/12/2010
China has reiterated its call for emergency consultations over the standoff on the Korean Peninsula.
- 12:31 01/12/2010 RIA Novosti interview with Konstantin Asmolov
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula recently led to one of the largest armed clashes between North and South Korea in the past 50 years. Will this conflict evolve into something more serious? Can the international community prevent such conflicts in the future? Konstantin Asmolov shares his views on future relations between North and South Korea.
- 12:23 01/12/2010
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula recently led to one of the largest armed clashes between North and South Korea in the past 50 years. Will this conflict evolve into something more serious? Can the international community prevent such conflicts in the future? Konstantin Asmolov, senior researcher at the Center for Korean Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies, shares his views on future relations between North and South Korea.
- 22:07 30/11/2010
The recent clash on the Korean peninsula has seen tensions increase dramatically. Many expect serious measures to be taken by the international community and the UN in particular in response to the North’s attack. In an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concerns about the current situation and shared his vision on the role of China in settlement of the conflict.
- 16:45 30/11/2010
U.S. and South Korean naval forces are conducting joint military exercises in the Yellow Sea off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula.
- 15:55 30/11/2010
South Korea does not have plans to overthrow the North Korean government, the South Korean ambassador to Moscow said on Tuesday.
- 11:39 30/11/2010
Russia has called for a diplomatic solution to tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin said, a week after the North shelled a South Korean island.
- 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.
- 22:07 29/11/2010
The Russian Foreign Ministry urged South Korea on Monday to mitigate tensions on the Korean Peninsula in a meeting with Korean Ambassador to Russia Lee Yun-ho.
- 18:54 29/11/2010
North Korea has more personnel but its troops are mostly equipped with outdated Soviet-made weaponry.
- 15:53 29/11/2010
South Korea continued joint military exercises with the US on Monday, a united show of force nearly a week after an artillery barrage on Yeonpyeong island killed four, including two civilians. North Korea issued a fresh threat to attack South Korea and the United States, calling the allies' joint war drills yet another "grave military provocation".
- 14:34 28/11/2010
Seoul will carefully examine China's call to hold emergency six-party talks on North Korea amid heightened tension on the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
- 10:50 28/11/2010
The chairman of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly will visit China from Tuesday until Saturday amid increased tensions between the two Koreas, the Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
- 08:00 28/11/2010
South Korea and the United States began on Sunday large-scale joint naval exercises in the Yellow Sea just days after North Korea's artillery attack on a S. Korean island that killed four people.
- 04:13 28/11/2010
South Korea and the United States began on Sunday large-scale joint naval exercises in the Yellow Sea just days after North Korea's artillery attack on a South Korean island that killed four people.
- 12:47 27/11/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi discussed on Saturday the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula and the necessity of not allowing it to escalate, according to a Russian ministry statement.
- 08:30 27/11/2010
Philippine President Benigno Aquino has held talks with Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura in Manila on the possible immediate evacuation of some 50,000 Filipinos from South Korea to Japan, NHK television reported on Saturday.
- 15:42 26/11/2010
China strongly opposes any foreign states' military maneuvers in its exclusive economic zone, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said citing the upcoming U.S.-South Korean naval drills in the Yellow Sea.
- 14:48 26/11/2010
North Korean citizens working in Russia's Far East rushed home after the recent military skirmish between North and South Korea, a Russian popular daily said on Friday.
- 05:37 26/11/2010
The South Korean President has appointed his security aide Lee Hee Won as defense minister, Yonhap reported on Friday.
- 15:01 25/11/2010
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young resigned after the handling of the deadly North Korean artillery attack, Yonhap news agency said on Thursday.
- 14:19 25/11/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed hope the United Nations Security Council in the near future will make a statement on the armed conflict between North and South Korea.
- 07:45 25/11/2010
A top U.S. military official linked the armed conflict between the two Koreas to the expected handing down of power in North Korea from Kim Jong-il to his son Kim Jong-un.
- 17:54 24/11/2010
China on Wednesday expressed regret over the artillery exchange between North and South Korea and called on both countries to show restraint and start talks as soon as possible.
- 15:58 24/11/2010
The biggest armed incident in the past 50 years on the Korean Peninsula occurred on November 23 on Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea near a disputed maritime demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea.
- 11:58 24/11/2010
Two civilian victims of Tuesday's artillery skirmish between North and South Korea were found on the attacked Yeonpyeong Island, Yonhap news agency said on Wednesday.
- 09:45 24/11/2010
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak agreed on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation in the wake of a military skirmish between the two Koreas, Kyodo news agency said.
- 08:14 24/11/2010
A U.S. naval task force led by the George Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will join South Korean warships in naval exercises on November 28 - December 1, Yonhap news agency said Wednesday.
- 04:54 24/11/2010
A recent military skirmish between South and North Koreas has not affected the situation on the Russian - North Korean border.
- 21:53 23/11/2010 RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik
The recent clash in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea is among the worst in the last fifty years.
- 19:18 23/11/2010
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday ordered to punish North Korea's shelling of one of the South's border islands "through action," in a bid to prevent further provocation.
- 18:39 23/11/2010
The Korean conflict has flared up once again. On November 23, North Korea fired artillery shells at South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, further straining relations between the two Korean states. Authorities in Seoul said the attack could have been provoked by South Korean war games held off the island, and put their armed forces on red alert.
- 15:25 23/11/2010
World powers condemned North Korea's deadly attack on a South Korean island on Tuesday, whilst Pyongyang said it had been responding to Seoul's aggression.
- 14:37 23/11/2010
North Korea fired artillery barrages onto a South Korean island near their disputed border on Tuesday, setting buildings alight and prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets.
- 14:20 23/11/2010
North Korea opened artillery fire at a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing one soldier and provoking a retaliatory attack from the South, Seoul's YTN television reported.
- 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.
- 12:27 23/11/2010
Korea fact box: sixty five years of conflict between North and South Korea.
- 11:56 23/11/2010
North Korea launched artillery fire at the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong in the Yellow Sea at 5:30 a.m. GMT
- 11:21 23/11/2010
North Korea opened artillery fire at a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing one soldier and provoking a retaliatory attack from the South, Seoul's YTN television reported.
- 11:11 23/11/2010
Kim Jong-un, son of and heir-apparent to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is one of the world's least well known national political figures. Even his exact date of birth is not known for sure, with North Korea first saying 1983, then 1982.
- 11:05 23/11/2010
South Korea will not seek the return of U.S. tactical nuclear missiles over fears that the move could scupper international efforts to persuade North Korea to halt its nuclear program, the South Korean deputy defense minister said on Tuesday.
- 10:54 23/11/2010
North Korea’s artillery attack on a South Korean island earlier on Tuesday may have been triggered by military exercises being held in the area, a spokesman for the South Korean presidential administration said.
- 10:50 23/11/2010
At least one South Korean serviceman was killed and another three seriously injured when North Korea attacked a South Korean island on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency said.
- 10:12 23/11/2010
North Korea launched artillery fire at a South Korean island on Tuesday, injuring four soldiers and provoking a retaliatory attack from the South, Seoul's YTN television reported.
- 09:45 23/11/2010
North Korea launched artillery fire at a South Korean island on Tuesday, injuring four soldiers and provoking a retaliatory attack from the South, Seoul’s YTN television reported.
- 09:29 23/11/2010
North Korea reportedly opened artillery fire on a South Korean island on Tuesday, the South Korean YTN channel said.
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