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Park Chan-Kyong

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) hugs North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un after their second summit at the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on May 26, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Dong-A Ilbo)
May 27, 2018, 3:27 am
Korean leaders seek to salvage Trump-Kim summit
Despite summit cancellation, Kim resolved to meet US president, state media says
By Jerome TAYLOR and Park Chan-Kyong
US President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 24, 2018. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
May 24, 2018, 9:17 pm
After cancelling summit, Trump warns North Korea against ‘foolish acts’
Pompeo says North Koreans provided ‘no response’ to US inquiries; cancellation comes after North Korea calls Pence ‘ignorant and stupid’
By Jerome Cartillier and Park Chan-Kyong
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) shakes hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) at the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries ahead of their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / Korea Summit Press Pool / Korea Summit Press Pool)
April 28, 2018, 12:33 pm
North Korea says historic summit opens ‘new era for peace’
Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in confirm common goal of ‘realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula’
By Park Chan-Kyong
This file photo taken on April 15, 2017, shows an unidentified missile and mobile launcher making its way through Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang. (AFP Photo/Ed Jones)
February 8, 2018, 11:32 am
North Korea stages military parade before delegation flies south for Olympics
Western journalists kept away, no live coverage of Pyongyang spectacle, as highest-level mission from Korea’s north prepares to leave for Pyeongchang on Friday
By Park Chan-Kyong
United Nations Command spokesman Col. Chad G. Carroll shows surveillance TV footage containing the moment of defection of a North Korean soldier, during a press briefing at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, on November 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)
November 22, 2017, 10:53 am
Dramatic footage shows North Korean defector’s border dash
Soldier shot four times in mad run to freedom, before South Korean troops crawl to him and drag him to safety
By Park Chan-Kyong
Illustrative: A US Air Force B-1B bomber, left, flies with a South Korean fighter jet F-15K over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea, Sunday, July 30, 2017 (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)
July 31, 2017, 5:44 am
US says time for talk on N. Korea ‘is over’ after second ICBM test
UN envoy Haley says tough sanctions needed to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions, as Washington and Seoul make show of force in South
By Olivia Hampton and Park Chan-Kyong
US President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 26, 2017. (AFP/SAUL LOEB)
July 30, 2017, 11:16 pm
US successfully tests missile defense in message to N. Korea
Bilateral mission also flies over Korean Peninsula after Pyongyang launches a ballistic missile it boasts can reach the US
By Olivia Hampton and Park Chan-Kyong
In this Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, photo distributed on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, by the North Korean government, 'Pukguksong-2' is launched at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
April 5, 2017, 3:00 am
North Korea fires ballistic missile into Sea of Japan
South Korea condemns ‘threat to peace and stability of the whole world’; launch posed no threat to North America, US military says
By Park Chan-Kyong
File: Travelers walk past a television screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's New Year speech, at a railroad station in Seoul on January 1, 2015. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)
January 10, 2016, 5:43 am
N. Korean leader defends ‘hydrogen bomb’ test
Citing the fall of nuke-lacking dictators Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, Kim calls detonation ‘self-defensive’
By Park Chan-Kyong
In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 file photo, what appears to be a new missile is carried during a mass military parade at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country's founding father Kim Il Sung. (photo credit: AP/Ng Han Guan, File)
May 20, 2015, 11:12 am
North Korea cancels on the UN, claims nuclear jump
Pyongyang says it has the tech to build atomic warheads, advance its ballistic missile program
By Park Chan-Kyong
Coast guard members search for passengers near a South Korean ferry that capsized on its way to Jeju island from Incheon, at sea some 20 kilometers off the island of Byungpoong in Jindo on April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ ED JONES)
April 19, 2014, 4:03 am
S. Korea ferry captain arrested as bodies glimpsed
Rescue divers reach submerged vessel, briefly see what they believe to be corpses; 273 people still missing
By Park Chan-Kyong
Coast guard members search for passengers near a South Korean ferry that capsized on its way to Jeju island from Incheon, at sea some 20 kilometers off the island of Byungpoong in Jindo on April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ ED JONES)
April 18, 2014, 6:45 am
Captain was not at helm of capsized ferry, investigators say
Death toll reaches 25 as South Koreans grow increasingly frustrated with government rescue effort
By Park Chan-Kyong
Coast guard members search for passengers near a South Korean ferry that capsized on its way to Jeju island from Incheon, at sea some 20 kilometers off the island of Byungpoong in Jindo on April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ ED JONES)
April 17, 2014, 8:05 am
Death toll rises as search for Korean ferry passengers restarts
Nine people killed and nearly 300 feared missing after ship carrying high school students capsizes; PM attacked over response
By Park Chan-Kyong
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