- 07:51 29/09/2010
South Korea and North Korea will hold military talks on Thursday, the first in about two years, the Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 14:25 24/07/2010
Russian experts, who assessed an international probe into the sinking of a South Korean warship in June, are still unable to give any decisive answers, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said on Saturday.
- 17:15 23/07/2010
The United States is prepared to hold naval drills near the Korean Peninsula again to ensure security of South Korea, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
- 10:53 15/07/2010
The first meeting between North Korean military officials and representatives of the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) on the sinking of South Korea's Cheonan corvette was held on Thursday, Yonhap said.
- 16:07 14/07/2010
Negotiators from the six party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament should avoid the escalation of emotions in the wake of South Korea's Cheonan warship sinking, the Russian foreign minister said on Wednesday.
- 06:37 13/07/2010
Pyongyang has delayed indefinitely talks with the U.S military to discuss South Korea's Cheonan warship sinking blamed on the North, Yonhap said on Tuesday.
- 06:04 11/07/2010
The UN Security Council condemned the sinking of a South Korean corvette Cheonan and stressed the need to prevent similar attacks in the region.
- 04:43 21/06/2010
Representatives of South Korean Christian churches and communities issued a joint address to the government to lift its blockade of the North, citing the possibility of another devastating famine in the isolated Communist state.
- 08:50 18/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged a thorough investigation of the sinking of a South Korean corvette Cheonan before taking any action against North Korea, blamed by Seoul for the attack.
- 21:19 16/06/2010
Russia and South Korea are resolved to work to alleviate tensions on the Korean Peninsula using diplomatic methods in the interest of peace, the countries' foreign ministers said on Wednesday.
- 20:41 16/06/2010
The Japanese government on Wednesday decided to tighten financial sanctions against North Korea starting July 6 in relation with the South Korean Cheonan corvette sinking.
- 22:10 15/06/2010
North Korea will retaliate militarily to any condemnation of Pyongyang by the UN Security Council over the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, North Korea’s representative to the UN said on Tuesday.
- 20:12 15/06/2010
North Korea will retaliate militarily to any condemnation of Pyongyang by the UN Security Council over the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, North Korea's representative to the UN said on Tuesday.
- 05:50 15/06/2010
North Korea proposed at a UN Security Council session sending its own group of experts to South Korea to inquire in Seoul's investigation concerning the sinking of the Cheonan warship.
- 19:14 09/06/2010
Russia is ready to hold impartial consultations at the UN on the sinking of South Korea's Cheonan warship, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 16:33 09/06/2010
North Korea warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday of "serious consequences" if the international community accepts the South Korean version of the Cheonan sinking.
- 15:37 09/06/2010
The Russian Defense Ministry will release a report on the sinking of a South Korean vessel in July, a senior defense official said on Wednesday
- 12:21 09/06/2010
The report on the sinking of S. Korea's Cheonan corvette with the claim that the tragedy had been caused by a torpedo fired by a N. Korean submarine caused further escalation on the Korean Peninsula.
- 19:52 08/06/2010
The South Korean Defense Ministry has given materials on the sinking of the Cheonan warship to Russian experts for further investigations, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 01:09 08/06/2010
The conclusions of Russian experts on the sinking of South Korea's Cheonan corvette will be reported to the Defense Ministry in two to three days, a top ministry official said.
- 09:31 07/06/2010
A group of Russian Navy experts left Seoul on Monday after completing their assessment of the investigation that found North Korea was responsible for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
- 17:43 04/06/2010
South Korea appealed to the United Nations Security Council on Friday over North Korea's alleged attack on the Cheonan warship, Yonhap news agency said, citing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
- 17:05 04/06/2010
Russia and China will try to prevent a conflict breaking out on the Korean Peninsula, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 17:02 04/06/2010
South Korea turned to the United Nations Security Council over North Korea's alleged attack on the Cheonan warship, South Korean news agency Yonhap said citing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
- 16:36 04/06/2010
Seoul is counting on Russia's support for a UN resolution on North Korea over the sinking of the Cheonan warship, South Korea's envoy to Moscow said on Friday.
- 16:30 04/06/2010
Pyongyang and Seoul are on the verge of a military crisis but Russia and China will try to prevent conflict breaking out on the Korean Peninsula, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 13:40 04/06/2010
A rally in support of North Korea was held on Friday outside the South Korean consulate in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
- 01:17 04/06/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Friday to discuss tensions between the two Koreas following the Cheonan warship sinking.
- 22:40 03/06/2010
South Korea officially informed Russia that it will submit to the United Nations Security Council a request for a resolution against North Korea over its alleged attack on the Cheonan warship, Yonhap South Korean news agency said.
- 22:02 03/06/2010
South Korea's Defense Ministry showed a RIA Novosti journalist on Thursday parts of the North Korean torpedo, which is believed to have sunk the Cheonan warship in late March.
- 17:53 03/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday he hopes to see a peaceful settlement of the situation on the Korean peninsula, worsened recently by the sinking of a South Korean warship in an alleged attack by the North.
- 13:44 03/06/2010
Russian military experts have inspected the wreckage of a South Korean warship that sank in the Yellow Sea in March following an alleged attack by North Korea, a South Korean military official said on Thursday
- 04:34 03/06/2010
Seoul has not decided yet when to send an official request for a UN resolution in response to the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean submarine.
- 17:51 02/06/2010
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is explosive and dialogue on North Korea's nuclear program should be continued, the Russian foreign minister said Wednesday
- 16:35 02/06/2010
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is explosive and dialogue on North Korea's nuclear program should be continued, the Russian foreign minister said Wednesday
- 14:19 02/06/2010
Talks between the Russia and South Korean deputy foreign ministers on the sinking of the South Korean Cheovan corvette will be held in Moscow on Thursday, a source at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Asia department said.
- 12:16 02/06/2010
Seoul is seeking an agreement from Russia to take the Cheonan issue to the UN Security Council, a high-ranking diplomat in Seoul said prior to leaving for talks in Moscow.
- 07:59 02/06/2010
The U.S. and South Korea will hold large-scale naval exercises in the Yellow Sea next week to send a "strong signal" to Pyongyang.
- 19:28 01/06/2010
A senior South Korean diplomat will arrive in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss rising tensions on the Korean peninsula following the sinking of the Cheonan corvette in the Yellow Sea
- 11:09 01/06/2010
China will not take sides in the current crisis over the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean submarine, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday
- 09:01 31/05/2010
A group of specialists from the Russian Navy arrived in Seoul on Monday to examine the results of an investigation that concluded a South Korean warship was sunk by North Korea
- 16:26 28/05/2010
Beijing condemns any actions undermining stability on the Korean Peninsula, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported.
- 07:56 28/05/2010
The South Korean Navy on Thursday started large-scale anti-submarine drills in the Yellow Sea as part of measures to counter any further attacks by North Korea.
- 00:34 28/05/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey on June 8 to attend the third summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
- 17:57 27/05/2010
Russian experts do not expect the sinking of a South Korean warship to provoke a new war and say the investigation into the incident has not been provided with enough evidence.
- 14:10 27/05/2010
A leading Russian expert on North Korea said on Thursday he had serious doubts about Pyongyang's involvement into the sinking of South Korea's Cheonan warship.
- 12:32 27/05/2010
China, North Korea's most important ally, on Thursday reiterated its reluctance in joining the U.S. and South Korean claim that Pyongyang was behind the sinking of the Cheonan warship.
- 11:32 27/05/2010
North Korea has threatened to block South Korean access to a joint industrial zone on the border between the two countries, Yonhap news agency said, quoting a North Korean military commander.
- 07:40 27/05/2010
Moscow has the right to conduct its own investigation into the recent sinking of a South Korean warship as Russia along with China plays a considerable role in the settlement of the situation on the Korean peninsula, the U.S. Department of State said.
- 22:22 26/05/2010
President Dmitry Medvedev will send a group of Russian experts to South Korea to examine the results of a probe into the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
- 20:48 26/05/2010
President Dmitry Medvedev will send a group of Russian experts to South Korea to examine the results of a probe into the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
- 10:45 26/05/2010
Troops in the Russian Far East have not been put on high alert following the brewing crisis between North and South Korea, several military officials said on Wednesday
- 04:15 26/05/2010
The U.S. Department of State hopes to "influence" North Korea and prevent escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula after a dispute over the sinking of the South's warship.
- 19:52 25/05/2010
The most remarkable thing about the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan is that nobody wants to talk about it. Let's look back at the international responses to the catastrophe: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak reported that he would submit the case to the UN Security Council. His American counterpart Barack Obama described this reaction as fully adequate. Others issued statements and condemnations. And that was it, strictly speaking, although 46 sailors died in this disaster.
- 18:58 25/05/2010
Pyongyang has announced it will sever all relations with Seoul, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
- 16:00 25/05/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Tuesday on his South Korean counterpart to show restraint and not allow the situation on the Korean peninsula to escalate
- 23:41 24/05/2010
The United States and South Korea will hold joint military drills to practice the interception of submarines "in the near future," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said on Monday.
- 22:45 24/05/2010
Canada has imposed sanctions on North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship, the CBC said on its website, quoting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
- 20:45 24/05/2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope on Monday that the Security Council would take prompt actions against Pyongyang in the wake of a probe that found North Korea had sunk a South Korean warship.
- 19:54 24/05/2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope on Monday that the Security Council would take prompt actions against Pyongyang in the wake of a probe that found North Korea had sunk a South Korean warship.
- 16:40 24/05/2010
South Korea has begun mass production of Red Shark torpedoes, designed for destroying hostile submarines, a Russian business daily quoted the South Korean Navy as saying on Monday.
- 11:23 24/05/2010
North Korea threatened in a statement on Monday to deliver surgical strikes on the South Korean loudspeakers in the demilitarized zone between the two countries, saying they create "psychological pressure."
- 13:45 23/05/2010
South Korea will take the case of its sunken naval ship to the UN Security Council, the presidential administration said on Sunday.
- 05:34 22/05/2010
North Korea accused the U.S. of trying to prevent the resumption of six-party talks on on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue after Washington condemned the North for sinking a South Korean warship.
- 19:12 21/05/2010
North Korea will withdraw from the nonaggression pact with South Korea if Seoul continues to accuse Pyongyang of sinking one of its warships, the country's news agency said citing a statement from a government committee
- 05:39 21/05/2010
The U.S. will continue discussions on a South Korean warship which was sunk by a North Korean submarine in March with its partners in the six-nation talks, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department has said.
- 20:04 20/05/2010
Russia called on Thursday for North and South Korea to exercise restraint in reacting to an investigation that concluded a South Korean warship was sunk by a North Korean submarine in March.
- 12:49 20/05/2010
China has urged North and South Korea to avoid escalating tensions caused by the sinking of a South Korean warship near the disputed sea border between the two states, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said on Thursday
- 08:55 20/05/2010
The White House said on Thursday evidence indicates North Korea was responsible for the sinking of the South Korean Cheonan Navy ship and described the act as a challenge to international peace and security.
- 06:12 20/05/2010
Seoul announced on Thursday that a North Korean submarine sank a South Korean warship in March.
- 20:42 17/04/2010
North Korea denied on Saturday it was involved in the sinking of a South Korean warship near the two countries' disputed sea border last month
- 03:14 04/04/2010
South Korea has called off a rescue operation for more than 40 sailors who remain unaccounted for since a warship sank last week in the Yellow Sea.
- 07:44 27/03/2010
South Korea is continuing the rescue operation on its naval ship that sunk in the Yellow Sea near the border with North Korea late on Friday, with 46 sailors still missing, the Yonhap news agency reported Saturday.
- 04:43 27/03/2010
A South Korean naval ship sank in the Yellow Sea near the border with North Korea late on Friday, and more than 40 sailors are missing while 58 were rescued, local media reported.
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