New envoy briefs FM before heading to North Korea

TEHRAN – The newly appointed Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to North Korea, Abbas Talebifar, met with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi ahead of his departure for Pyongyang.

By Mahnaz Abdi

North Korean Embassy in Tehran marks 80th anniversary of Workers' Party founding

TEHRAN – The Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Tehran hosted a ceremony on Wednesday evening to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.

North Korea’s leader says open to US talks if denuclearization demands dropped

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged the US to drop its demand the North surrender its nukes as a precondition for resuming long-stalled diplomacy, AP reported.

US forces killed North Korean civilians in failed 2019 spy mission: NYT

A newly revealed U.S. military operation in North Korea in early 2019 ended in failure and the deaths of local civilians, raising questions about Washington’s credibility during a period of high-stakes diplomacy.

John Delury

South Korea’s new president could transform the Korean Peninsula

How Lee Jae-myung Can Push Trump and Kim Back to Real Diplomacy

The debilitating political vacuum that has reigned in Seoul since South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment on December 14 has finally ended. On June 3, Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s presidential election by a decisive margin. Lee, a liberal who narrowly lost the country’s last election to Yoon, has promised to fix both his society’s broken politics and its mounting economic problems with a domestic agenda that includes improving conditions for workers, shoring up the public sector, and boosting growth in strategic areas such as AI and defense.