Prosecutors said Monday they have launched an investigation into documents purportedly written by the previous Park Geun-hye government regarding the leadership succession of Samsung in connection with the bribery scandal that removed Park from office.On Friday, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae
President Moon Jae-in hailed the scheduled increase in the minimum wage Monday, calling it a great move toward people-oriented growth and the right to live as humans."It will mark a great turning point for opening the era of people-oriented growth by reducing the extreme income gap," he said while
South Korea on Monday proposed holding inter-Korean military talks later this week on reducing tensions along the border, a follow-up to President Moon Jae-in's recent peace overture made in his Berlin speech.Seoul wants to have the rare meeting Friday at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in th
President Moon Jae-in will host a luncheon with the leaders of South Korea's five major political parties next week to discuss key pending issues including national security, his aides said Friday.The meeting, to be held at the presidential compound Cheong Wa Dae on Wednesday, is intended to bri
North Korea is likely developing close-range ballistic missiles with increased accuracy, range and lethality, a U.S. military intelligence report showed Thursday.The report by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center disclosed recent developments in the missile programs of North Korea, Russia,
The United States formally notified South Korea that it wants to start the process of revising the free trade agreement between the two countries, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Wednesday.USTR Robert Lighthizer made the notification in a letter to South Korean Trade Minister Joo Hy
Ahn Cheol-soo, the former presidential candidate of the minor opposition People's Party, broke his silence and apologized Wednesday over a fake tip-off scandal that has sullied its image as a champion of "new clean politics." The apology came hours after his former senior campai
South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed Wednesday to continue joint efforts to put "maximum pressure" on North Korea in order to bring it to the negotiating table.The three countries strongly condemned the North's launch last week of a ballistic missile with intercontinental range duri
Lt. Gen. Thomas Vandal, commander of the Eighth U.S. Army in South Korea, and other participants cut the tape during a ceremony at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on July 11, 2017, to mark the opening of the Eighth Army's headquarters that was relocated from Seoul's Yongsan Gar
North Korea's recently tested intercontinental ballistic missile, if fully developed, would be able to strike the U.S. naval base at San Diego with a nuclear warhead and multiple decoys designed to penetrate missile defenses, a top American missile expert said Monday.John Schilling, an aerospace
South Korea's unification ministry said Monday it will seek inter-Korean talks after gauging North Korea's reaction to President Moon Jae-in's latest proposal to bring peace to the divided peninsula.Moon unveiled his broad vision for improving inter-Korean relations during his speech in
The parliamentary budget committee on Monday tabled a 11.2 trillion-won (US$9.74 billion) extra budget bill for a long-delayed review despite opposition parties' objections.Ruling Democratic Party members pressed ahead with the submission of the bill, aimed mainly at creating jobs in the public
South Korea's parliamentary speaker on Sunday called for efforts to resume dialogue with North Korea, noting sanctions alone cannot ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula."North Korea's continued military provocations are a threat to peace. But to induce North Korea's change, there is as
South Korea has pledged US$10 million to a new global fund aimed at promoting and fostering increased job opportunities for women in developing countries, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Saturday.The pledge was made by President Moon Jae-in at the inaugural meeting of the Women Entreprene
A South Korean judge is set to be elected the head of the management body at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the foreign ministry here said Friday.The ICC's bureau has recently decided to recommend Kwon O-gon, who formerly served as vice president of the International Criminal Tribunal f
Leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States agreed to work together for tougher sanctions by the international community against North Korea for its latest missile provocation that hinted at its ability to target most countries in the world, South Korea's presidential office said Friday.
The leaders of South Korea and Germany agreed to boost their countries' cooperation in ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions, vowing to use all available means, Seoul's presidential office, Cheong Wa Dae, said Thursday.The agreement by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and German Chanc
South Korean President Moon Jae-in departed for Germany on Wednesday for the upcoming Group of 20 summit where he was expected to discuss ways to rein in North Korea's evolving nuclear and missile technologies with other global leaders. His departure came one day after North Korea claime
South Korea and the United States staged a massive combined ballistic missile exercise Wednesday aimed at sending a warning message to North Korea, the South's military said a day after the communist country claimed a successful long-range missile test. The allies fired a barrage of miss
WASHINGTON, July 3 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone separately with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday and discussed growing threats from North Korea, the White House said."President Trump raised the growing threat posed by North Kore