The United States will continue to ship to South Korea the remaining elements of a THAAD missile defense battery regardless of the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye, the Department of Defense said Friday."Leaders change over time, that's not new," Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davi
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday rejected calls for opening negotiations with North Korea to defuse escalating tensions, saying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is "not a rational person."Amb. Nikki Haley also turned down China's suggestion that the U.S. halt annual joint
South Korean retail giant Lotte Group faces a slew of difficulties, including economic retaliation by China and a criminal investigation for alleged bribery, as it gets ready to mark the 50th anniversary of its foundation next month.Lotte Confectionery Co., the matrix of Lotte Group, was founded by
The United States has begun the process to deploy an advanced missile defense system known as THAAD to South Korea to better counter growing threats by North Korea, the defense ministry said Tuesday.South Korea and the U.S. have made efforts to carry out their decision to deploy the Terminal High Al
South Korea, the United States and Japan requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss North Korea's latest missile launches, officials said Monday.The council is likely to hold a meeting on Wednesday after British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft returns from a trip, official
Korea and Turkey celebrate Hwangap (the 60th anniversary) of establishment of diplomatic relations this year. On this most auspicious occasion, Ambassador Hakan Okcal of Turkey in Seoul organized a press meeting at the Turkish Embassy in Seoul March 2, 2017 with major media representatives of Korea,
South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party on Monday said it will look into allegations that the nation's spy agency conducted illegal surveillance on the Constitutional Court, which is currently reviewing the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.The move came after a local broadcaster
North Korea on Monday fired four ballistic missiles into the East Sea, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, in an apparent reaction to the ongoing joint military drills between South Korea and the United States.The four projectiles were launched from an area near the North's Dongchang-ri long
Malaysia on Friday released a North Korean man detained over the killing of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother, citing lack of sufficient evidence, foreign media reported.Ri Jong-chol, 46, was the only one taken into custody out of eight North Korean suspects in connection to the
By Qiang Wei from People’s Daily As part of the effort to further open its capital markets to foreign participants, China is discussing measures that would allow foreign corporations to take larger stakes in domestic joint-venture securities and futures brokerages, officials with the top securities
The EU Delegation in Seoul welcomed new Ambassador-designate Michael Reiterer, who arrived in Seoul on Feb. 17, 2017. Ambassador Reiterer, former Principal Advisor for Asia and Pacific at the EU's European External Action Service (EEAS), is an Austrian citizen. Ambassador Reiterer
South Korea and the United States officially kicked off negotiations Thursday to finalize the terms of deploying the advanced American missile defense system THAAD in South Korea, the foreign ministry said."With regard to the provision of land (for the deployment), a request has been filed to open
All indicators point to Pyongyang's responsibility in the killing of the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a former CIA chief said Sunday, after Malaysia determined a banned chemical weapons agent was used in the killing.John Brennan, who served as CIA director until January, made
The recent killing of the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be a key topic when South Korea, the United States and Japan hold trilateral strategy talks on how to deal with Pyongyang, an official said Sunday.Kim Hong-kyun, Seoul's chief negotiator on the North Korean nuclear is
North Korea on Friday launched a vicious personal attack on the South Korean foreign minister, calling him an idiot and traitor who begs for tougher international pressure on its nuclear ambitions.The invective came amid heightening tensions following the North's test of a new ballistic missile
South Korea on Friday called on North Korea to acknowledge that it is behind the killing of its leader's half-brother and cooperate with Malaysia's probe into the case.In its first official response to the death of Kim Jong-nam, North Korea blamed Malaysia for colluding with South Korea in i
U.S. President Donald Trump named Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his new national security adviser Monday, a week after sacking Mike Flynn accused of having inappropriate contact with Russia's ambassador."Gen. H.R. McMaster will become the national security adviser. He's a man of tremend
North Korea's apparent killing of the half brother of leader Kim Jong-un, a glut in coal production and other factors could have led Beijing to suspend coal imports from North Korea, a U.S. expert said Monday.China suspended North Korean coal imports Sunday through the end of the year in accorda
Malaysian police said Sunday that they have identified four more North Koreans as suspects at large in the recent killing of Kim Jong-nam, a half-brother of the North's leader Kim Jong-un.Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who has a different mother from the cu
South Korea's foreign minister met his Russian and Chinese counterparts on Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference amid the controversy over the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system on the Korean Peninsula.South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se met his Ru