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N. Korean Red Cross official expects crop loss due to floods

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, speaks to Kyodo News in Pyongyang on Sept. 13. He says he expects the food shortage in North Korea to worsen after recent floods washed away or submerged 11 percent of the country's farmland.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Photo shows Ryu Song Il (R), chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, in Shenyang, China, on March 20, 2014, after attending informal talks between Japanese and North Korean diplomats on the sidelines of a two-day meeting of the countries' Red Cross societies. At left is Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, arrives at an airport in Shenyang, China, on March 20, 2014, to return home after attending informal talks between Japanese and North Korean diplomats on the sidelines of a two-day meeting of the countries' Red Cross societies.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, emerges after attending a two-day meeting of Japanese and North Korean Red Cross societies in Shenyang, China, on March 20, 2014.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, heads for the second day of a two-day meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 20, 2014.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, heads for the second day of a two-day meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 20, 2014. Government officials from the two countries also attended the meeting.

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Japan, N. Korea officials sit at negotiating table in China

SHENYANG, China - Japanese Red Cross Society officials (R) and their North Korean counterparts hold talks in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on March 19, 2014, in the presence of diplomats from the two countries, including Keiichi Ono (2nd from R), director of the Northeast Asia Division of Japan's Foreign Ministry.

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Japan-N. Korea meeting

SHENYANG, China - Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, is surrounded by reporters after arriving at Shenyang airport in northeastern China on March 19, 2014. He will attend informal talks with Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, on the sidelines of a meeting of the two countries' Red Cross societies in Shenyang.

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Japan-N. Korea meeting

SHENYANG, China - Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, arrives at Shenyang airport in northeastern China on March 19, 2014. He will attend informal talks with Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, on the sidelines of a meeting of the two countries' Red Cross societies in Shenyang.

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Japan-N. Korea meeting

NARITA, Japan - Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, leaves Narita airport near Tokyo on March 19, 2014. He will attend informal talks with Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, on the sidelines of a meeting of the two countries' Red Cross societies in Shenyang, northeastern China.

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Japan-N. Korea informal talks

NARITA, Japan - Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo on March 4, 2014. Ono and Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, held informal talks the previous day in Shenyang, China, on the sidelines of a meeting of the two countries' Red Cross societies.

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Japan-N. Korea informal talks

SHENYANG, China - Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, arrives at an airport in Shenyang on March 4, 2014, en route to Japan. Ono and Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, held informal talks the previous day in the Chinese city on the sidelines of a meeting of the two countries' Red Cross societies.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim (R), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, and Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, are pictured after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim (C), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, and Ryu Song Il (R), chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, attend a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross meeting in China

SHENYANG, China - The Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea hold a meeting in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating. Osamu Tasaka (2nd from R), director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ri Ho Rim (2nd from L), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, attended the meeting.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross meeting in China

SHENYANG, China - Ri Ho Rim (R), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, attends a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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N. Korean diplomat Ryu

SHENYANG, China - Ryu Song Il (R), a North Korean diplomat in charge of Japanese affairs, and Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross, get in a car after arriving in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on March 1, 2014.

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N. Korean diplomat Ryu

SHENYANG, China - Ryu Song Il (R), a North Korean diplomat in charge of Japanese affairs, and Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross, arrive in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on March 1, 2014.

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South Korean soldiers in Yeonpyeong

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - South Korean soldiers receive soup from the Red Cross on Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 27, 2010. Food supply on the South Korean island, which was shelled by North Koreans on Nov. 23, is sometimes insufficient as ships have been unable to sail due to rough sea conditions.

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Two Koreas talk over family reunions

PAJU, South Korea - Red Cross officials from South Korea finish a discussion with North Korean counterparts over temporary reunions of separated families at an office in Paju on Sept. 17, 2010. The two sides agreed to meet again Sept. 24 to try to fix the date and venue.

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Two Koreas talk over family reunions

PAJU, South Korea - Red Cross officials from South Korea talk to reporters after meeting with North Korean counterparts over temporary reunions of separated families at an office in Paju on Sept. 17, 2010. The two sides agreed to meet again Sept. 24 to try to fix the date and venue.

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North, South Koreans arrange reunion on television screens

SEOUL, South Korea - North and South Korean families separated as a result of Korean War (1950-1953) talk to each other on television screens (North Koreans on the right screen) on March 27, the first day of a three-day online reunion program arranged by the Red Cross societies of North and South Korea. Sixty families each from the North and the South are scheduled to take part in the program.

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154 confirmed dead in N. Korean train blast

SEOUL, South Korea - Lee Yoon Gu, president of the Korean National Red Cross, speaks with reporters on arrival at Inchon airport from a visit to North Korea on April 24. He said that North Korea has officially requested aid supplies from South Korea for the victims of the April 22 train explosion.

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Roh's wife visits welfare home in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kwon Yang Suk, the wife of South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, holds a child during a visit to an infant welfare home run by the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward June 7, the second day of a four-day state visit by her husband.

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N. Korean Red Cross officials leave Japan

NARITA, Japan - Ri Ho Rim (R), deputy general secretary of North Korea's Red Cross Society, and his colleague, Pak Yong Nam (L), are surrounded by reporters before their departure from Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Nov. 9. They accompanied five Japanese abductees on their homecoming visit.

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N. Korean Red Cross officials criticize Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Ri Ho Rim, deputy general secretary of North Korea's Red Cross Society, speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel before leaving Japan on Nov. 9. Ri, who accompanied five Japanese abductees on a homecoming visit, said he and his colleague, Pak Yong Nam, were completely unable to contact the five in their hometowns in Fukui and Niigata prefectures. ''As we can't contact the five, it is impossible to believe media reports that they are changing their minds (about a permanent return),'' Ri said.

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Japan, N. Korea end 1st day of resumed talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The delegation from the Japanese Red Cross Society (L) and its North Korean counterparts hold a first-day session of their two-day talks at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Aug. 18.

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Japan, N. Korea start Red Cross talks in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hiroshi Higashiura (L), who heads the delegation from the Japanese Red Cross Society, speaks during a meeting with the North Korean Red Cross Society at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Aug. 18. At right is North Korean delegation leader Ri Ho Rim. The Red Cross societies from Japan and North Korea began a two-day meeting to mark the start of a series of dialogues between the two countries this month.

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Japan Red Cross team arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A Japanese Red Cross Society delegation, headed by the society's international relations department chief Hiroshi Higashiura, arrives at Pyongyang airport on Aug. 17. The Japanese team will hold talks with its North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on Aug. 18-19.

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Red Cross team leaves Japan for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Hiroshi Higashiura, who heads a Japanese Red Cross Society delegation, leaves Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 15 for talks with its North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on Aug. 18 and 19.

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(1)Japan, N. Korea to hold next Red Cross talks around June

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura (L), head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Shigekazu Sato (R), deputy director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, give a news conference in Beijing on April 30 at the end of two days of talks between Japanese and North Korean Red Cross delegations. Both sides agreed to hold their next talks around June.

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross talks open in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura, head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society (2nd from right), and Ri Ho Rim, deputy secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, shake hands at Japan-North Korea Red Cross talks in Beijing on April 29. The two-day meeting will discuss humanitarian issues such as Tokyo's allegations that North Korea abducted Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Japan regrets N. Korea's decision to halt search

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka answers reporters' questions Dec. 18 in Tokyo. She said that if confirmed, the North Korean Red Cross Society's decision Dec. 17 to suspend efforts to locate Japanese citizens Tokyo believes were abducted to N. Korea is ''extremely regrettable.''

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Japan, N. Korea Red Cross societies agree on food aid

BEIJING, China - Tadateru Konoe (R), vice president of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ho Hae Ryong, vice chairman of the North Korean Red Cross Society, shake hands after exchanging a joint statement on humanitarian issues in Beijing on Dec. 21. The statement paves the way for the governments of the two countries to resume talks for normalizing diplomatic ties. Red Cross officials agreed to ask Tokyo to resume food aid to the North at a ''possible early date.''

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Japan, N. Korea reach accord in Red Cross talks

BEIJING, China - Tadateru Konoe (L), vice president of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ho Hae Ryong, vice chairman of the North Korean Red Cross Society, exchange a joint statement on humanitarian issues at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on Dec. 21, paving the way for resumption of working-level talks between their two governments.

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Red Cross talks between Japan, N. Korea begin in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Delegates from the Japanese and North Korean Red Cross societies begin two days of discussions in Beijing on Dec. 19 on humanitarian issues as part of stepped-up efforts to normalize bilateral ties. They are expected to discuss such issues as missing Japanese nationals and Japan's food aid to North Korea in the first set of meetings at the Japanese Embassy. The Japanese society's Vice President Tadateru Konoe is second from R, while his North Korean counterpart Ho Hae Ryong is second from L.

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Japan's Red Cross mission heads for talks with N. Korea

NARITA, Japan - Members of the Japanese Red Cross Society leaves Narita airport for Beijing on Dec. 18 for talks with their North Korean counterparts over humanitarian issues, such as missing Japanese nationals. The delegation, headed by the society's Vice President Tadateru Konoe (C), will meet with representatives from North Korea's Red Cross Society, led by its Vice Chairman Ho Hae Ryong, on Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 at the Japanese and North Korean embassies in the Chinese capital.

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Red Cross sends back corpses killed in flood to N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean Red Cross Society sends home the bodies on Aug. 16 of three dead North Koreans who apparently were killed in torrential rains in late July. The three bodies, which were carried across the border into South Korea by flood waters, were sent to the North through the border village of Panmunjom.

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Japan regrets N. Korea's decision to halt search

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka answers reporters' questions Dec. 18 in Tokyo. She said that if confirmed, the North Korean Red Cross Society's decision Dec. 17 to suspend efforts to locate Japanese citizens Tokyo believes were abducted to N. Korea is ''extremely regrettable.''

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Two Koreas working to secure family reunions

Three Red Cross officials from South Korea speak to reporters in Seoul on Sept. 7, 2015, before departing for a meeting with their North Korean counterparts concerning the possible reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. The meeting came on the heels of a recent deal that averted a military confrontation between the two nations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emigrant to N. Korea yearns for improved bilateral ties

Yoshie Arai, a 82-year-old Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960, is set to be interviewed by Kyodo News in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on April 16, 2015. Arai is one of about 1,800 Japanese women who accompanied their ethnic Korean husbands to North Korea in a 1959-1984 repatriation program managed by the Red Cross societies of the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emigrant to N. Korea yearns for improved bilateral ties

Yoshie Arai, a 82-year-old Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on April 16, 2015. Arai is one of about 1,800 Japanese women who accompanied their ethnic Korean husbands to North Korea in a 1959-1984 repatriation program managed by the Red Cross societies of the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emigrant to N. Korea yearns for improved bilateral ties

Yoshie Arai, a 82-year-old Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on April 16, 2015. Arai is one of about 1,800 Japanese women who accompanied their ethnic Korean husbands to North Korea in a 1959-1984 repatriation program managed by the Red Cross societies of the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea's Moon warns N. Korea not to cross "red line"

South Korean President Moon Jae In, seen in this file photo, warned North Korea on July 4, 2017, not to cross a "red line," after Pyongyang claimed its first successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Two Koreas agree to hold family reunion

Lee Duk Haeng, an executive committee member of South Korea's Red Cross, meets the press after talks with North Korean Red Cross officials in Seoul on Sept. 8, 2015. The two sides agreed to hold a family reunion in October for people separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Two Koreas agree to hold family reunion

Lee Duk Haeng, an executive committee member of South Korea's Red Cross, meets the press after talks with North Korean Red Cross officials in Seoul on Sept. 8, 2015. The two sides agreed to hold a family reunion in October for people separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross talks open in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Higashiura, head of the international relations department of the Japanese Red Cross Society (2nd from right), and Ri Ho Rim, deputy secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, shake hands at Japan-North Korea Red Cross talks in Beijing on April 29. The two-day meeting will discuss humanitarian issues such as Tokyo's allegations that North Korea abducted Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

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N. Korean Red Cross official expects crop loss due to floods

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, speaks to Kyodo News in Pyongyang on Sept. 13. He says he expects the food shortage in North Korea to worsen after recent floods washed away or submerged 11 percent of the country's farmland. (Kyodo)