North Korea has sent officials to Switzerland to scope out venues for a possible second meeting between its leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump, according to a report.
Speaking in Geneva on Thursday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was "deeply concerned" after US President Donald Trump cancelled a widely anticipated nuclear summit next month with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
The news that the US president has accepted an invitation to sit down to talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sparked speculation about where such a meeting could talk place.
North Korean state media praised Saturday’s performance of a united Korean team at the Winter Olympics, currently taking place in South Korea, but failed to mention that the team lost the game 8-0 to Switzerland.
North Korea will send 22 athletes to next month's Winter Games in the South, the International Olympic Committee said in Lausanne, Switzerland on Saturday. The IOC also confirmed that the two nations will march together at the opening ceremony.
A United Nations rights expert in Geneva squared off
with North Korea on Monday, urging the global community to resolve the fate of 200,000 people allegedly abducted by Pyongyang, and to refer perpetrators to the International Criminal Court.
North Korea's foreign minister warned in Geneva on Tuesday that
Pyongyang had the power to conduct a "pre-emptive strike" on the United States, following joint US-South Korea military drills earlier this week.
North Korea must act immediately to halt a litany of abuses and crimes against humanity, diplomats said on Thursday during a UN review in Geneva of the isolated Asian nation's rights record.
North Korea's leaders should be brought before an international court for a litany of crimes against humanity that include exterminating, starving and enslaving its population, a UN team in Geneva said on Monday.
North Korea expressed anger on Saturday after Switzerland earlier blocked a deal to supply key equipment for a ski resort which has been under construction as one of leader Kim Jong-Un's pet projects.
Bern has vetoed a contract by a Saint Gallen company to sell a ski lift system to the North Korean government for a luxury winter resort in the East Asian country.
Representatives of the world's five big nuclear-armed states on Friday voiced concern over North Korea and Iran's nuclear programmes, lamenting the threat to global efforts to avoid proliferation.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that he backed the idea of Switzerland hosting six-nation talks in an effort to defuse tensions over North Korea.
The Swiss luxury hotel chain Kempinski said on Tuesday that it was dropping plans to open a huge pyramid-shaped hotel that has stood half-built for decades in North Korea amid escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Amid mounting military and nuclear tensions with North Korea, an American retiree living in Switzerland has gained rare access to the pariah state to build schools in the usually off-limits countryside.
The 22nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, which opens in Geneva on Monday, is set to discuss the widespread abuses in Mali and North Korea, according to observers.
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday demanded an international probe into the alarming human rights situation in ultra-authoritarian North Korea, decrying more than a half-century of devastating abuses.
<p>The man tipped to be North Korea's next leader was schooled in Switzerland where he was an ambitious pupil who enjoyed basketball and even picked up the local dialect, reports said on Monday.</p>
