China, Japan, South Korean diplomats agree on trilateral leaders' summit
SEOUL, South Korea — The chief diplomats from China, Japan and South Korea agreed Sunday to hold a trilateral summit of their three leaders, but did not specify a time frame for the meeting that will...
View ArticleSouth Korea, Saudi Arabia in down-to-the-wire duel for right to host 2030...
SEOUL, South Korea — A series of last-minute events are underwriting Busan’s bid as the South Korean port city awaits a Tuesday vote to decide the host of the 2030 World Expo.Representatives of the 168...
View ArticleKim Jong-un threatens 'more offensive actions' against U.S. after watching...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatened “more offensive actions” to repel what he called increasing U.S.-led military threats after he supervised the third test of his country’s...
View ArticleMore than a test: North Koreans add skills drills to latest missile launch
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View ArticleLee Sun-kyun death triggers introspection on South Korea suicide trend
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, known for his role in the smash hit movie “Parasite” but recently hit with drug allegations, died Wednesday in an apparent suicide.In a country...
View ArticleS. Korea's top court orders a 3rd Japanese company to compensate workers for...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a third Japanese company to compensate some of its former wartime Korean employees for forced labor, the second such ruling in a...
View ArticleSeoul, South Korea records most snowfall on single day in December for 40 years
SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean capital, Seoul, received the biggest single-day snowfall recorded in December for more than 40 years on Saturday but there have been no reports of any...
View ArticleLee Jae-myung, South Korean opposition leader, stabbed in neck by...
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View ArticleSouth Korea, North conduct provocative drills along their tense sea boundary,...
SEOUL, South Korea — The rival Koreas fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary Friday, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean...
View ArticleNorth Korea shows off its military muscle near and far
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea showcased its military might on opposite sides of the world this week, as firing drills drove residents of a South Korean border island into shelters Friday a day after...
View ArticleSouth Korea says North Korea firing artillery into sea for 3rd straight day,...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea accused North Korea of firing artillery shells near their tense sea boundary for a third straight day on Sunday, as the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim...
View ArticleNorth Korea claims test of hypersonic weapon on missile
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Monday said it flight-tested a new solid-fuel intermediate-range missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead as it pursues more powerful, harder-to-detect weapons...
View ArticleNorth Korea suspected of launching ballistic missile able to reach distant...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, two months after the North claimed to have tested engines...
View ArticleNorth Korea scraps agencies managing relations with South as Kim Jong-un...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has abolished key government organizations tasked with managing relations with South Korea, state media said Tuesday, as authoritarian leader Kim Jong-un said he would...
View ArticlePutin hosts North Korean foreign minister at Kremlin in latest sign of...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this week, signaling the deepening cooperation between the two U.S. adversaries as...
View ArticleU.S., South Korea and Japan conduct naval drills in a show of strength...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States, South Korea and Japan conducted perhaps their biggest-ever combined naval exercises in a show of strength against nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korea’s...
View ArticleSouth Korean adoptions examined as country grants extension of truth commission
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to extend its term by a year through late-May 2025....
View ArticleFears mount that North Korea is done with diplomacy and is girding for conflict
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s artillery salvo off the flashpoint Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea this month preempted a South Korean gunnery drill, a South Korean academic said Thursday,...
View ArticleAs Kim's arsenal grows, options for dealing with North Korea shrink
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View ArticleIn Japan, reports of a new data hack accelerate the tilt against China
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