Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Saturday that Japan's recent export restrictions, including its removal of South Korea from a list of trusted trade partners, could pose a "serious threat" to regional prosperity.Kang made the remarks during a meeting with her counterparts from five countri
The United States is aware of North Korea's latest "missile" launches and is closely consulting with South Korea and Japan, a senior U.S. government official said Thursday. South Korea's military said North Korea fired unidentified short-range projectiles off its east coast early Friday (S
The top diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan were set to meet trilaterally in Thailand on Friday, as Tokyo's push to strip Seoul of a preferential trade status casts a pall over three-way security cooperation despite Pyongyang's saber-rattling. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wh
Japan's Cabinet is widely expected to approve a proposal to remove South Korea from a list of trusted trading partners on Friday in a move sure to deal yet another heavy blow to already badly frayed relations between the two countries. It would be the second retaliatory measure Tokyo has taken i
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Wednesday that North Korea's missile launches this week do not represent a violation of leader Kim Jong-un's promise not to conduct long-range missile tests. Bolton, however, questioned the regime's seriousness about resuming denuclearizati
South Korea and Japan failed to defuse a deepening trade and diplomatic row on Thursday, the eve of Tokyo's widely expected decision to strip Seoul of a preferential trade status in a move sure to aggravate the already high tensions. After the talks with her Japanese counterpart, Taro Kono, in T
The United States is aware of reports of a missile launch from North Korea and will continue to monitor the situation, a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday ahead of the expected resumption of denuclearization negotiations with the regime. The response comes after South Korea's Joint Chie
North Korea on Wednesday fired multiple unidentified projectiles off its east coast, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, the second such launch in less than a week. The projectiles were launched from the Hodo peninsula in South Hamgyong Province on the country's east coast, the JCS said, adding that
South Korea's team of rescue and recovery workers dispatched to Hungary in May to cope with a tourist boat disaster will wrap up its monthslong operations this week, the foreign ministry said Monday. Seoul also decided to disband its disaster management headquarters for the boat sinking on Tuesd
The United States on Monday sanctioned a Vietnam-based North Korean on suspicion of supporting North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program in violation of U.N. sanctions. The U.S. Treasury Department announced the measure on its website, saying the individual, Kim Su-il, is tied to the Nor
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that countries around the world will join a U.S.-led maritime force off the coast of Iran, after a South Korean newspaper reported that the Asian country plans to send a naval unit to the Strait of Hormuz. Pompeo did not mention any countries by name i
Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Reporter Paul KimFor the first time in a long, long time, the President of the Republic of Korea cancelled his summer vacation due to the pressing need to handle a critical situation surrounding the country. President Moon Jae-in has cancelled his five-day scheduled summ
President Moon Jae-in said his government will push for talks with North Korea on excavating troop remains in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which bisects the peninsula. In a message to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement that put a de facto end to the Korean War, Moon stresse
Two South Korean fishermen returned home unharmed Sunday, 11 days after they were detained by North Korea on a Russian fishing ship, the Ministry of Unification said. They were on board the 300-ton crab-catching vessel, the Xiang Hai Lin 8, along with 15 Russian crew members, when it was detained by
Diplomats from South Korea and Vietnam have held a meeting in Vietnam to discuss ways to prevent violence against marriage immigrants in Korea, Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday. South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister for Overseas Koreans and Consular Affairs Lee Sang-jin and Vu Viet Anh, direc
On July 19, the 5G communication network was officially launched by the President of Latvia, Egils Levits. Since September 2018, when the first 5G Tech Forum (5G Techritory) was held in Latvia, the 5G network has been in “test mode”. It is now available to anyone with a device supporting 5G technolo
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha will use a series of multilateral talks in Thailand next week to step up diplomacy to reverse Japan's recent export control measure against South Korea, a foreign ministry official here said Thursday. Kang is set to attend the annual ministerial gatherings, involv
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that he expects working-level talks with North Korea to resume in a couple of weeks despite the regime's missile launches earlier the same day. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Pompeo downplayed the two short-range ballistic missile lau
[코리아포스트 손다솜 기자] 주한 라트비아 대사관은 7월 19일 에길스 레비츠 라트비아 대통령에 의해 5세대 이동통신(5G) 서비스를 공식적으로 라트비아에서 시작했다고 24일 밝혔다.라트비아에서 최초의 5G 기술 포럼 (5G Techritory)이 개최된 2018년 9월 이후로 5G 네트워크는 "테스트 모드"에 있었으나, 이제 5G 기술을 지원하는 장치를 가진 사람이라면 누구나 사용할 수 있다.라트비아의 이동 통신 사업자인 “라트비아 모바일 텔레폰”(LMT)과 TELE2는 5G 네트워크에 대한 완전한 서비스 접속을 제공하는 반면
South Korea's deputy trade minister attending a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting has slammed Japan's export curbs as a "diplomatic retaliation," as Seoul sought to draw international support in its trade feud with the neighboring country. After raising the Japanese export curbs at th