A man in the audience of President Park Geun-hye's impeachment hearing Monday was ordered to leave the courtroom after welcoming a justice's remarks with applause.The man, appearing to be in his 50s, clapped during the 15th hearing at the Constitutional Court in response to acting Chief Just

South Korea's Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Monday said it appears "certain" that North Korea is behind last week's murder of the estranged half brother of its leader Kim Jong-un.During a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC)'s Standing Committee, Hwang

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother was murdered with poison in Malaysia, multiple sources including South Korea's spy agency said Wednesday, with the local police tracking down two women and four men who may be implicated in the crime. Kim Jong-nam, 46, was at the

Most North Koreans are unaware that the head of the country's spy agency has been sacked, a U.S.-based media outlet said Sunday. Citing Japan's media outlet Asia Press that claimed to have contacted four North Koreans to check if Kim Won-hong's fall from grace has reached ordinary people

South Korea's Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Sunday said Seoul is doing its best to carry out a "corresponding" response to punish Pyongyang for its latest missile launch. The communist state launched a ballistic missile at around 7:55 a.m. toward the East

North Korea on Sunday fired a ballistic missile into the East Sea in show of force against the Donald Trump government's hard-line stance toward the communist state, the South Korean military said.It is the first test-firing of a North Korean missile since Trump became U.S. president on Jan. 20.

Chances are low that the ballistic missile recently test-fired by Iran could have been North Korea's Musudan intermediate range ballistic missile, a defense expert said.Iran launched the missile on Jan. 29, which flew about 1,000 kilometers. Media reports have since surfaced suggesting that the

North Korea is expected to watch closely how the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump responds to Iran's missile launch and what policy the new administration puts together on Pyongyang before it carries out its threatened missile test, a U.S. expert said Sunday. "It has been m

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's recent sacking of the chief of the country's spy agency is likely to aggravate the sense of instability among the North Korean elite class, a report by the state-run Institute for National Security said Sunday. South Korea's Ministry of Unification said

North Korea's black economy, which is believed to have grown as a market force in recent years, helped the isolated country weather international sanctions last year, according to a researcher at South Korea's state-run think tank on Sunday.North Korea, which has been under layers of interna

Feb. 51893 -- The royal authorities of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) decide to establish the nation's first naval academy on Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul. Faced with growing pressure from foreign countries' military vessels that frequently appeared around the peninsula, the authorities pla

The special counsel investigating an influence-peddling scandal centered on President Park Geun-hye is seeking to have a face-to-face interrogation with her this week. It will be the first-ever prosecution enquiry of a sitting South Korean president if it is carried out as planned, officials said Su

People in South Korea took to the streets in central Seoul on Saturday calling for President Park Geun-hye's immediate resignation over an influence-peddling scandal involving her longtime friend. This massive rally marked the 14th candlelight vigil that has been held almost every weekend since

United States Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has proposed maintaining around-the-clock communication with South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo in a bid to tighten the countries' alliance further against North Korea, a military source said Sunday."Secretary Mattis suggested to Minister Han (t

North Korea has unilaterally sold rice cookers produced in the now-defunct inter-Korean industrial zone in Kaesong, a U.S. media outlet reported Saturday. A source in China told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that North Koreans took several hundred electronic rice cookers from Kaesong in mid-D

Former U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday renounced his Presidential ambitions in a surprise decision likely to strengthen the frontrunner position of the current opposition Presidential hopeful and frustrate those yearning for change in feud-laden politics. "I will give up my pure aspirat

SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Yonhap) -- One out of every 10 imports in the Chinese markets came from South Korea last year, data showed Tuesday, in the latest sign of deepening economic ties between the two neighbors.China imported South Korean goods worth US$158.9 billion last year, the Korea International Trad

Special prosecutors announced Monday that they would seek another arrest warrant against Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of President Park Geun-hye and a primary suspect in a high-profile corruption scandal, after she had refused to undergo questioning over bribery allegations.Choi rejected the question

BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korean officials turned out in force for the Lunar New Year reception at the Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang last week, diplomatic sources in Beijing said Monday.According to insiders that cited the homepage of China's Embassy in North Korea, some 70 senior offici

SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea looks set to launch a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) instead of a long-range one as it still has to master the related technologies, military officials said Monday. "There are no signs of an imminent test firing of an interc