Category - north korea

WCC seeks resumption of talks on North Korea nuclear programme

agency reporter — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:04:30 +0000

The World Council of Churches has urged the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to hold bilateral talks within the context of resumed Six-Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme.

Church delegation urges North Korea to meet US 'face to face'

agency reporter — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:00:45 +0100

A delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) visiting Pyongyang, has met with North Korean president Kim Yong-nam. During the meeting it suggested that a significant impetus to solving the nuclear weapons stand-off in the region would be for North Korea and the US to meet.

World churches' leader to make first visit to North Korea

Stephen Brown — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:15:23 +0100

The head of the World Council of Churches is to lead a delegation to North Korea, in the latest of several recent visits from Christian groups to the communist-ruled State.

German Protestant leader encourages North Korean Christians

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:43:38 +0100

Germany's senior Protestant bishop has urged Christians in officially atheist North Korea to obey God "rather than human beings". Issues of nuclear weapons and the division of Korea into north and south face the isolated nation.

South Korean churches push for no-strings aid to the North

Ecumenical News International — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:31:09 +0100

A South Korean grouping of churches is urging its member churches and organizations to join a campaign to give North Korean children milk and bread "without any precondition".

Japanese concerns over possible new North Korea missile test

staff writers — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:33:56 +0100

Japanese sources claim that North Korea may be planning to launch another missile, a day after US President Barack Obama called the country’s recent actions a “grave threat” to international security.

Latest North Korea statement on ‘truce’ adds to weapons tension

staff writers — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:51:07 +0100

The secretive hard-line communist regime in North Korea has reacted angrily to global condemnation of its recent nuclear weapons test, declaring that its ‘truce’ with South Korea may be over and that it will not back down.

North Korea test shows need to abolish all nukes, says world church body

staff writers — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:43 +0100

At a time when the international community is re-kindling the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, the North Korean nuclear test is a source of real concern, says World Council of Churches general secretary Rev Dr Samuel Kobia.

Parliamentarians see golden opportunity to tear down 'Asia's Berlin Wall'

staff writers — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:49:38 +0000

British Parliamentarians have said that the new Obama administration brings with it a golden opportunity for a formal cessation of hostilities and normalisation of relations with North Korea.

British Methodists provide assistance for North Korea

staff writers — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:26:41 +0000

While North Korea and the generally unknown Christians there remain isolated on the world stage, British Methodists are among those who have been developing relations and providing assistance.