Topic: Panmunjom

S. Korea seeks talks with N. Korea next month

South Korea on Wednesday proposed holding working-level military talks with North Korea next month, in what would be their first dialogue since the North's deadly bombardment last November.The defence ministry said it sent a message to the North suggesting a ...
North Korea and the US-led United Nations Command on Tuesday failed to reach an agreement on holding high-level talks on the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Command said.Tuesday's meeting, the sixth since June, took place at the joint ...

South Korea arrests pastor after rare border handover

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean pastor who spent nearly 70 days in North Korea on an unauthorized visit was detained on Friday after returning home in a rare crossing at their heavily armed border.Rev. Han Sang-ryol, a pro-unification activist, was taken ...
A South Korean pro-unification pastor on Friday crossed the tense inter-Korean border from the North to face arrest after visiting Pyongyang without Seoul's permission, a witness said.Reverend Han Sang-Ryol, who travelled to the North on June 12 on an unauthorised ...
North Korea said Saturday a pro-unification activist who visited Pyongyang without Seoul's permission would return home in the coming week, an event likely to deepen inter-Korean tensions.Reverend Han Sang-Ryol will walk across the border to the South on Friday, five ...

North Korea to conduct rare border handover

PANMUNJOM, Korean Peninsula (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it would return a South Korean pastor, who visited Pyongyang illegally, to his homeland through a rare crossing at a truce village that straddles the border.The North's state-run KCNA news agency ...

Joint Security Area

Establishment Among the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement signed July 27, 1953, to bring a cease-fire in the Korean War, was establishment of the Military Armistice Commission (MAC), an agency to supervise implementation of the truce terms. Meetings of MAC representatives ...
Military officers from North Korea and the US-led United Nations Command held their third round of talks Friday on the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship that was blamed on the North.Colonels from the two sides met at the border ...

N.Korea holds more talks with US military

North Korea and the US-led United Nations Command held military talks Friday, a Command spokesman said, the third round since the sinking of a South Korean warship that was blamed on the North.Colonels from the two sides met at the border ...
North Korea has postponed talks scheduled for Tuesday with the US-led United Nations Command about the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Command said.Its army representatives requested a delay "for administrative reasons", the Command said in a statement, adding that ...