U.S. President Donald Trump does not want a nuclear war with North Korea and his administration will do everything to stop it from happening, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday.The assurance comes as Trump has engaged in an escalating war of words with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over
The Korea Post Reporter Kim Sung-min, ASHGABAT, Turkemenisan--Members of the Korean Indoor Martial Arts Team to the Ashgabat 2017 (5th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games) attended a welcome ceremony at the Welcome Ceremony Plaza in the Ashgabat City of Turkmenistan at 11 a.m., Sept. 16, 2017 (local t
A ranking Democratic congressman on Tuesday accused current and past U.S. administrations of holding back on applying real pressure on North Korea to prevent harm to their political interests.Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) issued scathing criticism of U.S. policy toward the regime over the last 20 years d
North Korea on Wednesday condemned new sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) following its sixth nuclear test, vowing to strengthen its nuclear force at a faster pace.North Korea's foreign ministry said that it "categorically" rejected the U.N. sanctions, which it says are aim
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visited on Monday surviving South Korean victims of sexual slavery during World War II, expressing regret over Japan's refusal to apologize for its wartime atrocities.Schroeder arrived at the House of Sharing in the afternoon, a shelter on the outskirts
South Korea's defense ministry said Monday it has launched a special investigation team to look into the 1980 massacre of pro-democracy protests in Gwangju under the junta of Chun Doo-hwan.The special committee will focus on allegations that soldiers were ordered to fire at protesters from helic
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde expected Friday South Korea's economy will continue to grow stably despite security risks stemming from North Korea, the foreign minister here said after their meeting in Seoul.Top diplomat Kang Kyung-wha met Lagarde to discuss the economy of S
The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) on Friday ramped up its claim of a government attempt to control the media, amid a report that the ruling party wrote a plan to oust executives of two broadcasters allegedly in favor of the conservative bloc.The local daily Chosun Ilbo reported that the
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Thursday the deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system was a "difficult yet inevitable decision" aimed at coping with North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.Lee made the remark after the four additional interceptor launchers for the Terminal High Al
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Thursday to push for a new U.N. Security Council resolution with the "strongest" sanctions against North Korea, including cutting off all oil supplies to the impoverished country."Regarding the North's nuclear te
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon abruptly called off a lunch meeting with the press planned to mark his 100th day in office Thursday amid violent clashes between police and villagers in a southeastern town over the deployment of additional launchers for the U.S. THAAD missile defense system.Lee's offi
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for efforts to stop North Korea from making any further provocations Wednesday, calling it the most urgent challenge facing their countries and the rest of the world."President Putin and I agreed that resolving the North
South Korean President Moon Jae-in asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to help tame North Korea, saying the latest nuclear test by the communist North has made global security conditions very serious."The global political situation has become very serious due to North Korea
The United States assured South Korea and Japan on Wednesday of full extended deterrence, based on both its conventional and nuclear arsenal, against North Korea.The U.S. reaffirmed its "ironclad" security commitment for the key regional allies in a working-level video conference on the North'
South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived here Wednesday on a two-day visit for a regional economic forum that will also include a series of summit meetings with Russian and Japanese leaders.Moon's itinerary will begin with a bilateral summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, accordi
Ambassador Alexander Timonin of the Russian Federation in Seoul said that Korean business companies are most welcome in Russia in various areas, especially petrochemistry, shipbuilding, automotive industry, fish- and seafood-processing, medicine, tourism and paper industry.Speaking at a recent inter
Ambassador Christián Guillermet Fernández, Director General of Foreign Policy at Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship, along with representatives of the Embassy of Costa Rica in Korea, participated in the 2017 FEALAC´s Working Group Meetings and Senior Officials
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, Manuel A. González Sanz, and the Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kang Kyung-wha, met bilaterally on August 30th in the framework of the 8th FEALAC Ministerial Meeting held in Busan, Republic of Korea.The meeting allowed both nations to reaffi
Professor Victor Cha of Georgetown University in the United States, 56, has been named next US ambassador to the Republic of Korea (south). This was reported by Reuters yesterday.Quoting a US government official, Reuters reported that the Trump Administration of the US plans to appoint Prof. Cha as
Environment ministers from South Korea, China and Japan on Friday agreed to disclose the upcoming result of a joint study on fine dust pollution which poses increasing health and environmental problems to the region.After a two-day meeting in Suwon, on the outskirts of Seoul, the officials issued a