Five North Korean fishermen rescued in the South earlier this week will be repatriated to their country, the unification ministry said Friday.The fishermen were found on Monday drifting in the East Sea on a boat that experienced serious engine problems. Rescued by South Korea's maritime police,
North Korean athletes and officials taking part in the upcoming Asian Winter Games arrived in the Japanese host city of Sapporo on Friday, with the country in the international spotlight over the murder of its leader's half-brother.The delegation was led by Chang Ung, the lone North Korean membe
South Koreans' calls for the renegotiation of a 2015 Seoul-Tokyo deal on Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II have been rising amid the rekindling of a row between the two countries over symbols of the victims, according to poll results released by Gallup Korea on F
A Seoul court on Thursday refused to allow special prosecutors to search the presidential office, casting a cloud over an ongoing corruption probe of President Park Geun-hye and her associates.The special counsel filed the lawsuit with the Seoul Administrative Court last Friday after its attempt to
The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea's top spy agency, has seen the number of women joining increase sharply and expand the scope of operations since the North's spy bodies were integrated into the bureau in 2009, a U.S. broadcaster said Thursday.A North Korean defector, who was fo
Malaysian police on Thursday arrested another female suspect in connection with the latest killing of the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a Malaysian news report said.Police detained a second woman who was allegedly involved in the death of Kim Jong-nam following the previous day
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday called emphatically for NATO members to meet their defense spending obligations, warning that the U.S. could "moderate its commitment to this alliance" unless they do so."No longer can the American taxpayer carry a disproportionate share of the defen
The chief of South Korea's spy agency on Wednesday confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother was murdered with poison in Malaysia.National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director Lee Byong-ho told lawmakers that for the past five years Pyongyang has been attempting to assassi
South Korea's state-run nuclear watchdog on Tuesday appealed a recent court's order to cancel its decision to extend the operation of a nuclear reactor that was originally planned to go offline in 2012, legal sources said.Last week, the Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of a group of
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he will deal with North Korea "very strongly," calling the communist regime a "big, big problem" after Pyongyang carried out the latest ballistic missile launch."Obviously North Korea is a big, big problem and we will deal with that very strongly," Trump
South Korea will join a multinational maritime military exercise led by the United States and Thailand in the Southeast Asian country this week, the Navy said Monday.In the annual Cobra Gold drills, headed by the U.S. Pacific Command and the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters, the combined forces
South Koreans were found to be the top seafood consumers among 24 countries with high demand for the products, a report showed Monday.Statistics contained in "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture" from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) showed that South Koreans consumed an averag
South Korea's central bank will likely cut the key rate to a record low of 0.5 percent this year as a way to boost the economy amid the U.S. Federal Reserve's tightening stance, global financial service firm Morgan Stanley said Monday. It expected that the Bank of Korea (BOK) will slash the
The South Korean economy has been facing heightened internal and external uncertainties on par with those in 2011, when the world was hit hard by the European fiscal crisis, a report said Sunday."Along with the local political turmoil, South Korea will likely struggle with intensified uncertainties
South Korea's mechanized troops staged a large-scale river crossing drill to highlight their ability to strike the North even under adverse weather conditions, the Army said Sunday.Units of the 11th mechanized division conducted a frozen fording exercise near Hongcheon, 102 kilometers east of Se
North Korea on Sunday fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the East Sea in an apparent provocation to boast its military readiness and test the response from the new Donald Trump administration, the South Korean military said."The missile appears to be a Rodong or a modified version of the m
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday the United States stands behind Japan "100 percent" in a previously unscheduled joint news conference he held with Japan's prime minister after North Korea conducted a surprise ballistic missile launch.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe opened the brief
The United Nations' working group on enforced disappearances said Friday that its search list for South Koreans believed to have been abducted by North Korea has been growing.At a press conference in Seoul, the international panel said the reclusive country remains steadfastly unresponsive to re
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier made a port call in Guam on Friday in what could be a preparation to take part in an annual joint military drill between South Korea and the United States slated for March, a military source said.A possible mobilization of the nuclear-powered carrier for the upco
Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Friday directed his government to consider mobilizing troops to help contain the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) that has been rapidly spreading across the country since the first outbreak earlier this week.During a daily meeting of senior officials