South Korea has announced plans to change its top negotiator on North Korean nuclear disarmament, appointing the incumbent to a senior post in the intelligence agency. There was no immediate word on who would replace Kim Sook as envoy to the currently stalled disarmament talks grouping the United States, Japan, China, Russia and the two Koreas. Sources quoted by Yonhap ...

South Korea is willing to give the North unconditional food aid but the communist state must fundamentally change its system to end massive long-term malnutrition, a senior official said Friday. Chief nuclear negotiator Kim Sook also said a decade of engagement under previous liberal Seoul governments had largely been a failure. Kim was speaking a day after the North threatened ...