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In an announcement at the White House Thursday night, South Korean National Security Director Chung Eui-yong confirmed that the North Korean dictator has extended an invitation to President Donald Trump to meet “as soon as possible,” and that Trump has accepted.

In a comment the South Korean government later insisted was meant as a joke, Defense Minister Song Young-moo told U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Scott Swift that American nuclear submarines were no longer needed to protect South Korea against North Korea, now that the North has opened up and offered to begin denuclearization talks.

A day after dictator Kim Jong-un allegedly claimed that his father’s “dying wish” was to see the end of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun published a commentary insisting that Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons “reliably guaranteed” world peace.

North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un will visit South Korea for bilateral talks, in an unprecedented act of diplomacy between the two nations still technically at war.

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“It’s a very tenuous situation. It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens,” President Trump said about North Korea’s denuclearization possibilities.

North Korea’s state media outlets do not appear to have softened their tone towards the United States despite reports Tuesday that dictator Kim Jong-un would be open to discussing denuclearization with the Trump administration.

South Korean officials confirmed on Monday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is personally hosting a dinner reception for special envoys sent by Seoul to discuss stabilizing bilateral relations, among other concerns.

A top U.S. diplomat to North Korea has unexpectedly announced his retirement days after President Donald Trump expressed a willingness to open talks with the rogue communist state.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and vital Asian allies are reportedly working on coordinating an unprecedented crackdown on ships suspected of evading sanctions on the murderous North Korean regime led by dictator Kim Jong-un.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday urged the United States and North Korea to lower their conditions for negotiations to take place.

It has been almost a half-century since the technology first made its appearance in 1969, but the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has become a necessary part of life for people on the go in need of instant cash.

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First daughter Ivanka Trump is cheering on Team USA athletes in Pyeongchang, South Korea for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, hanging out with athletes and even the South Korean First Lady, Kim Jung-sook.

North Korea has opened talks with South Korea over the possibility of their participation in the upcoming Paralympic Games, officials in Seoul have revealed.

A Dutch speed skater was forced to apologize to the South Korean people for saying that Koreans need to treat their canines better, reports say.

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North Korea’s Olympic “charm offensive” came to an end on Thursday as officials announced Pyongyang’s delegation to the closing ceremony would include Kim Yong-chol, who is currently vice chairman of the Workers’ Party Central Committee but formerly chief of the North Korean military intelligence agency blamed for the 2010 torpedo attack on the South Korean corvette Cheonan.

OXON HILL, Maryland — CPAC attendees raucously cheered Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday when he harshly rebuked positive media coverage of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un’s sister at the Olympics.

The sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is reportedly pregnant with her second child.

The White House and State Department revealed on Tuesday that North Korean officials offered to meet with Vice President Mike Pence during the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but retracted their offer at the last minute after Pence condemned North Korea’s human rights violations.

Politics are in the spotlight again at the 2018 Olympics in South Korea as Ivanka Trump attends the closing ceremony of the games on Sunday.

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A North Korean official on Tuesday floated the possibility of co-hosting the 2021 Asian Winter Games with South Korea and using North Korea’s Masikryong ski resort for the event.

In a rare interview with Margaret Brennan of CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he has been working to convince China that North Korea is a “serious threat” to its interests.

A sports writer for USA Today thinks that Norway has been successful at the Winter Olympics because their athletes are friendly, and they have nationalized healthcare.

The friendly competition for medals between athletes and nations are usually the focus of the Olympic games. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea proved otherwise.

The South Korean government is debating a proposal to bill South Korean taxpayers almost $3 million to cover the cost of North Korea’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

President Donald Trump’s self-described unpredictability is “one of the most powerful assets in negotiation” in dealing with North Korea, said Michael Malice on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

Trump said he was concerned about foreign countries like China dumping cheap steel on the United States, hurting the country’s steel industry.

In an extremely rare display of effusive praise, North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted dictator Kim Jong-un on Tuesday lauding South Korea’s treatment of a Pyongyang delegation to the Winter Olympics as “very impressive” and expressing gratitude that

South Korean politicians and analysts are divided over North Korea’s proposal for a summit between dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang. Some are supportive of the idea or, at least, think it is worth a few days of President Moon’s time, while others believe the summit could be counterproductive or even dangerous.

Vice President Mike Pence said diplomacy with North Korea is possible, but a “maximum pressure campaign” would remain in place.

Kim Yo-jong, North Korea’s head of Propaganda and Agitation and sister of Kim Jong-un, invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the “earliest date” to visit Pyongyang at her brother’s request.

U.S. figure skater Mirai Nagasu made history at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, by successfully performing the first ever triple axel performed by an American woman at the Winter Games.

CNN ran a Trump and Pence-bashing piece on Monday morning sourced entirely to “a senior diplomatic source close to North Korea.”