Seoul - The fate of two US journalists detained by North Korea was still unclear on Friday, a US envoy said.
"We are still trying to get a sense of exactly what the situation is and what happened," said US Ambassador Kathleen Stephens after a meeting with diplomats in Seoul.
The US government and US diplomats were trying to secure the release of the two women, "who do seem to be held in some way," Stephens said. "So we will hope for the best."
Seoul - North Korea on Friday again stopped border traffic, denying South Koreans access to the Kaesong industrial complex, sparking fears over the future of the joint project.
South Koreans were denied access even after a joint US-South Korean military exercise ended, the Defence Ministry in Seoul said. Pyongyang had originally cut border traffic during the annual military exercise which ended earlier on Friday.
Seoul - North Korea's newly elected parliament is to hold its first session on April 9, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Friday, publishing a date that comes shortly after a planned launch eyed with concern by the West.
In March 8 elections, which were widely regarded as a farce by Western powers, 686 candidates handpicked by the ruling communist Workers' Party of Korea were elected, among them North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who reportedly received 100 per cent of the vote.
Seoul - North Korea said Monday that it would allow hundreds of South Koreans stranded at a joint industrial park for three days to leave the country.
But Pyongyang was still balking at allowing South Korean commuters to travel back and forth over the heavily guarded inter-Korean border to the park at Kaesong, the Unification Ministry in Seoul said.
Seoul - South Korea warned North Korea Friday that it risked "countermeasures" from the United Nations if it goes ahead with a planned rocket launch.
Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan said in Seoul that it did not matter whether the launch was of satellite, as North Korea has claimed, or an intercontinental ballistic missile, as its neighbours and the United States fear, because either way the matter would be taken before the UN Security Council.
Seoul - The fate of two US journalists detained by North Korea was still unclear on Friday, a US envoy said.
Seoul - North Korea's newly elected parliament is to hold its first session on April 9, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Friday, publishing a date that comes shortly after a planned launch eyed with concern by the West.
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Seoul - North Korea said Monday that it would allow hundreds of South Koreans stranded at a joint industrial park for three days to leave the country.
