By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Feature Editor Kim Tae-moonFive is a lucky number not only in Korea but in various other countries of Asia such as Japan, China and other Chinese character-using countries. This year in 2018, Brazil meets with the lucky number three times, and this was immediately app
South Korea will closely coordinate with the United States as it pursues dialogue with North Korea, Seoul's top envoy to the United Nations has said.On his Facebook page Monday, Amb. Cho Tae-yul said he discussed the recent inter-Korean talks during a speech hosted by the U.N. Association of New
The White House expressed hope Wednesday that North Koreans will get "a small taste of freedom" when they march together with South Koreans at the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.The two Koreas agreed earlier in the day to march under a "unified Korea" flag and field a joint
The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan met to discuss cooperation on North Korea and other issues of mutual concern, including friction over Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, the foreign ministry here said Wednesday.Kang Kyung-wha met with her Japanese counterpart Taro
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday that North Korea will continue to face sanctions until it takes "decisive steps" to abandon its nuclear weapons program.Tillerson was speaking at a foreign ministers' meeting in Vancouver, Canada, that focused on addressing the threat posed by
President Vladimi Putin of the Russian Federation says, “I come from an ordinary family, and this is how I lived for a long time, nearly my whole life. I lived as an average, normal person and I have always maintained that connection. We lived simply, having cabbage soup, cutlets, pancakes, but on S
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday a newspaper misquoted him as saying that he has a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, when in fact he said he "would" have a good relationship with Kim.The Wall Street Journal quoted Trump as saying in an interview Thursday, "I probably
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that he cannot accept South Korean government's announcement that the issue of Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women has not been resolved through a controversial deal reached in 2015, a local news report said.Kyodo News quoted Abe
North Korea has carried out significant tunneling on the west side of its main nuclear test site, indicating the potential for another bomb detonation, a U.S. website said Thursday.38 North, which monitors the reclusive state, said recent satellite imagery of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site shows i
The Republic of Korea (south) and North Korea are coming closer to each other these days mainly thanks to the tireless efforts of President Moon Jae-in to end the status of stand-off between the two Koreas. Especially with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics not very far away, government representatives
President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday urged Japan to accept historical truth and make a heartfelt apology to the victims of its wartime sexual slavery as part of efforts to resolve the longstanding feud over the issue between the two countries.In a nationally televised press conference, Moon reaffirmed
The commanding general of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) on Wednesday remained cautious about North Korea's motivation behind its decision to hold talks with the South as part of its recent peace offensive."The fact that (the inter-Korean talks) happened, I think, is notable, and that such a step has
South Korea said Tuesday that it will not seek renegotiation of a controversial 2015 deal it reached with Japan to settle long-running feud over former comfort women forced into sexual servitude for Japanese troops during World War II.The Seoul government said that it will also set aside its own mon
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence credited President Donald Trump Monday with enabling rare high-level talks between South and North Korea this week, backing Trump's own argument.In an interview on Radio America's "The Dana Show," Pence was asked to assess the U.S. role in bringing the two Ko
The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and Japan agreed on Monday to step up cooperation on efforts to turn the emerging "peace momentum" on the Korean Peninsula into a peaceful resolution of North Korea's nuclear stalemate, the foreign ministry here said.The agreement was made at a meeting in
South Korea's foreign minister expressed hopes Monday that the North's expected participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics will catalyze inter-Korean reconciliation and the resolution of the nuclear standoff."The government is looking beyond North Korea's participation in the Pyeo
USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, is en route to the Western Pacific, the Navy announced Sunday.The nuclear-powered supercarrier, accompanied by several guided-missile destroyers and other warships, left its homeport in San Diego last week for the "regularly scheduled deploymen
South Korea's top nuclear envoy is considering visiting the United States as early as this week to explain the outcome of the planned cross-border dialogue over Pyongyang's possible participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics slated for next month, sources said Sunday.Should he visit Wa
The United States is determined to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program through diplomacy, but it is also prepared to use force if necessary, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency said Sunday.That policy has been consistent under President Donald Trump, unlike in previous administrati
The United States understands that possible talks between South and North Korea would be limited to discussing the upcoming Winter Olympics, not the nuclear weapons program of the communist regime, the State Department said Thursday.South Korea and the U.S. have been in close consultation over the r