Kaesong, North Korea News Archives

Hyundai pays for detention North Korea presented South Korea with a hotel bill for US$16,000 after detaining and interrogating one of its citizens in an inn for 137 days, an official said yesterday.

As tens of thousands gather in Seoul to mourn the death of the former president, his 'Sunshine policy' is breathing life into fresh North-South talks.

On August 23, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met with a DPRK delegation at the presidential Blue House during their visit to mourn South Korean former president Kim Dae-jung. The delegation conveyed a message from DPRK leader Kim Jong-il to the South Korean president, expressing the intention to develop a DPRK-South Korea cooperative ...

Hyundai Asan Corp. is seeking to resume tours to North Korea's Kaesong and Mount Kumgang next month.

North Korea on Tuesday agreed to talks between the Red Cross agencies of the two sides to discuss a resumption of reunions of families separated by the Korean War.

The Solidarity for Progress of south Korea issued a statement on August 18 lashing out at the south Korean puppet authorities for their confrontation with the DPRK.

With the death Tuesday of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, the world has lost a true statesman, a man who worked tirelessly for peace and democracy in a very troubled part of the world.

Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun, during her recent visit to North Korea, won a five-point agreement from North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, promising to resume package tours to Mt.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said Thursday the inter-Korean economic negotiation office in Kaesong will be reopened, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

The presidential office on Tuesday said it "would not oppose" it if North Korea wants to send a delegation expressing the regime's condolences on the death of former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung. "If North Korea sends a condolence delegation, there will be no reason to oppose it," Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that information her husband brought back from North Korea has been "extremely helpful" by providing a window into what's happening in the reclusive country.

The Japanese imperialists pillaged excellent assets that the Korean people had created and preserved for thousands of years, exhumed over 200 mausoleums of successive kings and more than 11,000 underground ancient tombs and destroyed everything that they could not carry away during their 40-odd-year-long colonial fascist rule over Korea.

North Korea is to ease border restrictions with South Korea to allow for more travel tours and family reunions , according to the Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea on Thursday released a South Korean employee of Hyundai Asan Corp., the North Korea business arm of the Hyundai Group, who had been detained since March at a joint industrial park in the North Korean border town Kaesong, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

Yoo Seong-jin , a worker who was detained by North Korea, speaks to the media upon his arrival at the South Korean Customs, Immigration and Quarantine office, south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, August 13, 2009, after he crossed the border.

SOUTH Korean relatives and politicians urged North Korea Friday to release South Korean detainees, after the communist state handed two Americans over to former president Bill Clinton.

SOUTH Korean relatives and politicians urged North Korea Friday to release South Korean detainees, after the communist state handed two Americans over to former president Bill Clinton.

SOUTH Korean relatives and politicians urged North Korea Friday to release South Korean detainees, after the communist state handed two Americans over to former president Bill Clinton.

Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-eun went to Pyongyang on a quasi-official mission Monday afternoon to win the release of a South Korean employee who has been held incommunicado in the North for 134 days.

Hyun Jeong-eun, chairwoman of Hyundai Group, is scheduled to visit North Korea today to negotiate the release of a Hyundai Asan employee who has been detained there since March 30, sources said yesterday.

SOUTH Korean relatives and politicians urged North Korea Friday to release South Korean detainees, after the communist state handed two Americans over to former president Bill Clinton.

South Korea and India wrapped up their three-and-a-half-year-long bilateral trade talks on Friday, signing the so-called Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement which calls for tariff reduction in auto and other manufacturing sectors in both countries.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton urged North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and other officials there to free South Korean and Japanese detainees, CBS quoted a U.S. government official as saying.

The South Korea government was still reeling Wednesday after former U.S. President Bill Clinton's surprise visit to North Korea.