South Korea's trade ministry said Thursday it will hold working-level talks with its Japanese counterpart this week to discuss Tokyo's latest trade restrictions on key industrial materials. The talks in Tokyo on Friday will be the first of their kind since Japan implemented strict regulation
North Korea has revised its constitution to stipulate that leader Kim Jong-un is the official head of state, according to a state media outlet. The new constitution, revised in April's Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) session, states that the chairman of the State Affairs Commission (SAC), th
An opposition lawmaker claimed Thursday he has identified data from a Japanese agency showing that Japanese firms allegedly smuggled strategic items to North Korea that include hydrogen fluoride, a material subject to Tokyo's export curbs on South Korea. The revelation came in an apparent bid to
The United States has offered to hold trilateral high-level talks with South Korea and Japan to resolve a growing trade spat between the Asian nations, but Tokyo has yet to respond, a top South Korean presidential official said Thursday. Kim Hyun-chong, deputy chief of Cheong Wa Dae's National S
The United States wants to see the complete elimination of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction that begins with a freeze on their production, the State Department said Tuesday. The comment comes ahead of the expected resumption of negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear weapons prog
President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday ratcheted up the pressure on Japan to stop heading toward a "dead end" with "politically motivated" export restrictions against South Korea. Speaking at a meeting with dozens of local business leaders at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, he stressed that the government i
The top diplomats of South Korea and the United States have held phone talks to discuss Tokyo's recent export control measure against Seoul and diplomacy for North Korea's denuclearization, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday. During the 15-minute talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mi
The labor and business sectors entered the final stretch of talks to set the minimum wage for next year on Wednesday, as labor representatives ended a boycott of a meeting over the business circle's demand for a cut in the hourly pay. Initially, the labor sector proposed 10,000 won (US$8.47) for
The French Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with the French Embassy in Korea and the Cultural Institute will host their annual Bastille Day event Friday, July 12th, 2019, at Floating Island near Banpo Bridge on the Han River in Seoul.Bastille Day, France’s national day, commemorates
203rd Anniversary of the Independence of the Argentine Republic was held at Lotte Hotel, Seoul on July 9, 2019. Among the guests in attendance were Mr. Yoon Soon-Gu Deputy Minister for Political Affairs, Mr. Kim Jae-Kyung President of the Korea-Argentina Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group at the N
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun has no plans to meet with North Korean officials during his trip to Europe this week, the State Department said Tuesday. Negotiations on North Korea's denuclearization are expected to resume in the coming days after U.S. President Donald
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is extending his trip to Japan to resolve any potential fallout from the neighboring country's tough regulations for shipments of key materials used for chip and display productions, industry sources Tuesday. Lee, the de factor leader of the South K
South Korea on Tuesday rebutted the possibility that a key Japanese industrial material has been shipped to North Korea in breach of international sanctions against Pyongyang as alleged by Japan. Tokyo has claimed that its strict regulations of shipments of key materials to South Korea are due in pa
The latest encounter between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the inter-Korean border was a meeting, not a summit or a negotiation, the State Department said Tuesday. The impromptu meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30 had raised questions about whether it wa
North Korea's trade with Russia's Far Eastern region nearly tripled in the first quarter from a year earlier, data showed Tuesday, amid intensifying efforts by the two neighbors to strengthen bilateral relations. According to the data by South Korea's Consulate General in Vladivostok, th
Japan has restricted exports of high-tech materials to South Korea due to a "collapse" of mutual trust, Tokyo's ambassador to Seoul was quoted as saying Monday. Ambassador Yasumasa Nakamine, however, said his country is not seeking the suspension of exports beyond the removal of preferential t
A North Korean media outlet Monday slammed Japan's recent restriction on high-tech exports to South Korea, calling the measure a "shameless" act that indicates a lack of remorse for Tokyo's historical wrong-doings against the Korean people. Japan began to tighten regulations last week on s
President Moon Jae-in called on Japan on Monday to withdraw its recent export control against South Korean firms, describing it as an attempt to limit trade for a political purpose. Breaking his strategic reticence on the sensitive issue, Moon said his administration will first make "calm" efforts
Top U.S. nuclear envoy Stephen Biegun will travel to Europe this week to meet with European officials and his South Korean counterpart to discuss ways to achieve North Korea's denuclearization, the U.S. government has said. Biegun will visit Brussels on Monday and Tuesday and Berlin on Wednesday
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong traveled to Japan on Sunday, apparently to meet with local business leaders and discuss Seoul's response to Tokyo's retaliatory limits on exports of high-tech materials.Japan said last week it would tighten regulations on exports of materials us