It's the first meeting between the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Around 30,000 North Koreans have successfully defected to the South. But under the reign of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, far fewer people are getting out.

North Korea is in talks with the US and Sweden to release three Americans held in the North, reports said, as diplomatic activities gathered pace ahead of Pyongyang's planned summits with Washington and Seoul. The release of the three Korean-Americans -- all held in the North after being separately charged with unspecified ‘hostile acts’ against the regime -- is under discussion through multiple channels almost two weeks after President Donald Trump agreed to meet the North's Kim Jong Un, reports said.

Kim Jong Un has committed to eventual denuclearization ahead of talks with President Trump in May, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Sunday. "The significance of his word is quite weighty in the sense that this is the first time that the words came directly from the North Korean supreme leader himself, and that has never been done before," Kyung-wha said on CBS News Sunday.

Representatives from the United States and North Korea are reportedly meeting in Finland for “second-tier” talks on denuclearization. Few details are available, but the meeting was confirmed to CNN by the Finnish and South Korean foreign ministries, and the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the North Korean official responsible for US affairs was spotted at the Beijing airport heading to Finland.

North Korea's foreign minister is due to visit Sweden Thursday, a surprise move that can be seen as a first step toward a meeting in the Scandinavian country between U.S. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

A North Korean woman and soldiers look at a Chinese tour boat from the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong,

The president briefly got excited and didn’t know what the policy was or that he’s not really the president.

U.S. President Donald Trump will not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un unless Pyongyang takes “concrete actions,” the White House said on Friday as it faced criticism for agreeing to talks that would boost Kim’s standing. “The president will not have the meeting without seeing concrete steps and concrete actions take place by North Korea, so the president will actually be getting something,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a news briefing.

Using negotiations to divide Washington and Seoul and gain time to continue missile and nuclear development are time-honored DPRK strategies. By Doug Bandow.

President Donald Trump is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May in response to Kim's invitation to hold the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit, a South Korean envoy said, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in the North Korea nuclear standoff.

South Korea approved a plan to use a government fund to financially support North Korea's participation in the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, the unification ministry said Friday. The government deliberative committee for the inter-Korean cooperation fund approved some 130 million won (US$121,370) in spending from the government budget for inter-Korean cooperation to pay the Paralympic bills for Pyongyang, the ministry said.

Kim has also committed to stopping nuclear and missile testing, even during joint military drills in South Korea next month, South Korea’s national security adviser told reporters in Washington.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet by May and Kim has pledged to refrain from further nuclear or missile tests, South Korea's national security chief said on Thursday after briefing White House officials on talks between Seoul and Pyongyang.

Two senior South Korean officials arrived in the United States on Thursday to brief U.S. officials on their meeting this week with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Pyongyang's apparent willingness to discuss denuclearization with Washington.

The North “clearly stated its willingness to denuclearize,” South Korea said after talks in Pyongyang. President Trump welcomed what he called “possible progress.”

North Korea continues unsurprisingly with its nuclear program in reaction to the new US sanctions – and a former senior NSA official claims that cryptocurrencies are to blame.

The regime always meets pressure with pressure of its own.

North Korea is willing to hold talks with the US, South Korea says. The announcement came after Gen Kim Yong-chol met South Korean President Moon Jae-in ahead of the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics. US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka is also attending the ceremony, but US officials have ruled out meeting the North Korean delegation.