All posts tagged "peace treaty"

  • KIm Jong-un
    US: North Korea offered peace talks with US, bailed over nukes

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that North Korea sought to discuss a peace treaty but bailed after the U.S. insisted denuclearization be part of the discussions. Spokesman Josh Earnest said the U.S. considered a...

    • Posted February 22, 2016
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  • Barack Obama, Xi Jinping...US President Barack Obama, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, both adjust their suit coats during the start of their bilateral meeting at the US Ambassador's Residence in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, March 24, 2014. Obama is in the Netherlands for the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, which will form the backdrop for an emergency meeting of Group of Seven leaders on Russia's annexation of Crimea. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    US rejects Chinese offer of peace treaty talks with N. Korea

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The United States said Thursday that denuclearization remains its top priority when it comes to North Korea, rejecting a Chinese proposal to begin peace treaty negotiations with Pyongyang in tandem with denuclearization talks. Chinese...

    • Posted February 18, 2016
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  • The North's leader made the H-bomb claims last week, saying the country has become a "powerful nuclear weapons state." (Yonhap)
    N. Korea demands peace treaty for stopping nuke tests

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing a peace treaty with the U.S. and a stop to annual military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea....

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • Senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Jong Tong Hak poses before an interview with APTN in London, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear blackmail“ and respond to Pyongyang's recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving North and South Korea still technically still at war. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
    N. Korea says bold action by US could open path to treaty

    LONDON (AP) — North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear-based threats and blackmail” and respond to the North’s recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • russian
    N. Korea demand for peace treaty worth taking note: Russian envoy

    SEOUL (Yonhap) – Moscow’s top envoy to Seoul said, in clear contrast to the positions of Seoul and Washington, that it is worth taking note of North Korea’s renewed demands for a peace treaty with the United...

    • Posted October 22, 2015
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  • Former U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill (AP Photo)
    US ‘prepared to pursue peace treaty’ with N. Korea given denuclearization

    By Brian Han After a firm rejection of a North Korean proposal for a peace treaty, a former U.S. ambassador says there may be a willingness to negotiate. That possibility only arises if North Korea is ready...

    • Posted October 22, 2015
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  • In this image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's ruling party in Pyongyang, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared Saturday that his country was ready to stand up to any threat posed by the United States as he spoke at a lavish military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the North's ruling party and trumpet his third-generation leadership. (KRT via AP Video)
    N. Korea asks US for peace treaty, US has ‘no interest’

    By Brian Han North Korea expressed a desire to pursue a peace treaty with the U.S. It also wants to be able to freely pursue its nuclear weapons development program simultaneously. For the U.S., the two primary...

    • Posted October 20, 2015
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