Lee Jae-myung faces an emboldened, nuclear North Korea and an uncooperative US; to succeed, Seoul must shift from denuclearization demands toward arms control and independent, multilateral diplomacy.

Lee Jae-myung’s cabinet appointments reflect a desire for renewed dialogue with North Korea, but with Pyongyang emboldened by Russia and disinterested in reunification, diplomacy faces steep ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Friday pledged to make peace, but many details in their joint declaration have yet to be worked out. That’s because the ...

South Korea’s presidential national security council said it has decided to suspend a 2018 inter-Korean agreement aimed at easing animosities, until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored.

“In order for the peace treaty to be an effective safeguard that can prevent U.S. military action against North Korea, there needs to be more than a two-party deal,” Jeong Se Hyun, South Korea ...

North Korea desires a peace treaty “to set those dominoes in motion.” In the lead-up to this week’s summit between North and South Korea, however, reports indicated that Kim Jong Un, ...

SEOUL — South Korea would consider negotiating an end to the decades-old Korean War if North Korea commits to denuclearization, a Seoul official said Wednesday. South Korea’s national security ...

North and South Korea sign a pact calling for a new peace treaty that would formally end the Korean War, and replace an armistice signed more than 50 years ago. It is the climax of a three-day ...

South Korea is seeking U.S. help in renewed efforts to repair troubled ties with North Korea, after the reclusive authoritarian state debuted a powerful new weapon at a military parade less than a ...

The current South Korean administration, led by President Moon Jae-in, has been supportive of a peace declaration between the U.S. and the North as an incentive for North Korea to denuclearize .

While the Trump-era dialogue never panned out, Moon has continued to pursue efforts to reverse the backslide toward tensions with North Korea and restart peace talks. The North-South commitment to ...

North Korea has long sought a peace treaty with the United States to formally end the war. Some South Koreans fear that the North could use such a treaty as a pretext for demanding the withdrawal ...