5개 대북지원 국제기구 업무를 총괄하는 유엔 상주 조정관이 수해 지원을 위해 북한으로 복귀할 준비가 돼 있다고 밝혔습니다. 국제적십자연맹도 국제 지원들의 북한 복귀를 기대하고 있다고 밝혔습니다.
South Korea sees an end-of-war declaration as key to restarting nuclear talks with its northern neighbor, which have been stalled for 2 years
Beijing could use North Korea as leverage to counter Washington's positions, including its goal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, analysts say
As Pyongyang rejects talks with the US, the State Department says it hopes the locked-down country accepts international aid
Pope Francis willing to visit North Korea at request of South Korean President Moon Jae-in if Pyongyang issues invitation
Experts fear North Korea could be using its tough anti-virus measures to gain tighter centralized control over its people by prioritizing regime stability over public health.
WASHINGTON - North Korea needs to publicly admit there is a coronavirus outbreak inside its borders and officially ask the international community for help fighting COVID-19 before any sanctions are lifted, experts said.
President Donald Trump's attempt to reengage North Korea through "anti-epidemic" help offered through a letter sent to the country's leader Kim Jong Un is an effort to show the U.S. remains open to dialogue even amid the coronavirus pandemic, experts said.
In recent tests, North Korea has been improving the firepower of its missiles that can target South Korea, making them ready to deploy on a battlefield, experts said.
A former World Health Organization official with extensive experience in Pyongyang is calling for the international community to grant "temporary" sanctions relief to North Korea to help the country fight the coronavirus that has triggered health emergencies in neighboring China and South Korea.
North Korea made up nearly $2 billion of revenue it lost from sanctions by conducting cyberthefts from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges, an expert said.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump is shifting his priorities away from North Korea in his run up to the presidential election this year, experts said, after fruitless efforts at denuclearization talks that remain deadlocked.
Russia has been dodging U.N. sanctions and hiring North Korean workers to push back against the U.S.-led maximum-pressure policy, while supplementing the shrinking labor supply in its Far East, experts say.
As North Korea returns to self-reliance to maintain its faltering state-run economy, experts said sanctioning the financial lifelines of regime leaders might put added pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program.
