Bloomberg North Korea is ruling out more talks with the US, saying the American authorities are using the idea as a mere political tool. “We do not feel any need to sit face-to-face with the US,” North Korea Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday. The US does not consider ...

Bloomberg Portugal protested the UK requirement that British travellers self-isolate when they return to England from the Iberian nation as “profoundly unfair.” It’s “absurd,” Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on RTP3 television station. “When a country that has 28 times more deaths from Covid-19 than Portugal wants to impose quarantine rules to passengers from Portugal, I would say that ...

Bloomberg US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, the Trump administration’s main representative for North Korea, will visit South Korea on Tuesday before heading to Japan, Yonhap reported Saturday, citing unidentified diplomatic sources. Biegun will visit Seoul on July 7, where he is likely to meet South Korean counterpart Lee Do-hoon along with diplomatic officials at the foreign ministry and ...