The talks – delayed by nearly two hours – follow months of friction and threats of war by Pyongyang after its February nuclear test attracted tougher UN sanctions, further squeezing its struggling economy. Kaesong was the most high-profile casualty of …

The cold war, those-tensions, thick enough to cut with a hack saw. My God why do … It is bad enough to suggest the return of the Zim dollar at this present moment in time but foolish to the point of insanity to suggest in this century a bullion …

Last month the North requested talks with the South on opening Gaeseong, scrapped the offer over a protocol dispute, then less than a week later suggested high-level talks with the U.S. on a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War. Any talks …

As Putin has stressed in several speeches, he believes that the Soviet Union, by focusing on an economically ruinous arms race with the US, fought the wrong battle against the West during the Cold War. In Putin's view, the Soviet Union collapsed under …

The talks – delayed by nearly two hours – follow months of friction and threats of war by Pyongyang after its February nuclear test attracted tougher UN sanctions, further squeezing its struggling economy. Kaesong was the most high-profile casualty of …

Germany said that “Cold War” tactics will not support trade discussions. Secretary of State John Kerry defended the NSA … The euro zone is in its longest recession ever. Reports indicate that the single currency area shrank for the seventh …

The currency crashed, the shops had no food. The abrupt change from command economy to free market capitalism plunged vast swathes of the population into sudden, … This stinging judgment echoes ominously for the future of Bulgarian statehood – it …

Its permanent closure would not only deprive North Korea of an important source of badly needed hard currency but also could scare away foreign investors its young leader, Kim Jong-un, wanted to attract. The conservative government in Seoul, whose …

Until it was shut down amid high military tensions, the industrial park, a valuable source of hard currency for the impoverished North, had proved remarkably resilient to the regular upheavals in inter-Korean relations. Saturday's talks follow months …