South Korea's parliament on Saturday passed an 11.03 trillion won (US$9.8 billion) extra budget bill after marathon negotiations over what President Moon Jae-in has promoted as a vital tool to create jobs and prop up economic growth. The National Assembly held a floor vote to endo
Maj. Gen. Scott Mcqueen (L), the new commander of the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division, and his predecessor, Maj. Gen. Theodore Martin, pose for a photo during a ceremony at Camp Casey in the city of Dongducheon, north of Seoul, on July 18, 2017, to mark the division chief's inauguration and Martin
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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
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
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
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
Outspoken Hong Joon-pyo, former governor of pro-conservative Southeastern province of Gyeongsangnam-do won a landslide victory at the national convention of the pro-west, conservative Liberty Korea Party national convention at Namyangju city today. Hong and his followers all but took over all the su
President Moon Jae-in returned Sunday from the United States where he had a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump on North Korea, alliance and trade issues.Upon arrival, he issued a statement to the nation stressing the summit has set the stage for South Korea to play a bigger role in resolving No
The United States blacklisted a Chinese bank as a "primary money laundering concern" Thursday for helping North Korea access the U.S. and the international financial system, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.The designation of the Bank of Dandong can have powerful effects in efforts to cut th
President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday called for efforts to upgrade the economic ties between South Korea and the United States to a "strategic partnership" that seeks to jointly develop new global markets for their products and services."I hope economic cooperation between South Korea and the Unite
“By now, you must be aware that the parents of President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea were among the 14,000 refugees who boarded the SS Meredith Victory of the United States Navy,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Madam Kang Kyung-wha to men and officers of the 2nd US Infantry Division on Ju
Thousands of members of an estimated total of over radical groups, including Minju Nochong (Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) and Chamyeo Yeondae (People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy), gathered at the Gwanghwamun Square in front of the Capitol Building in Seoul on June 24, 2017, and
Former U.S. Congressman Mike Honda was awarded a state medal from South Korea's government Monday for his efforts to help improve Korea-U.S. relations and heal the wounds of Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery.Honda, who served as a House member representing California from 2001
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have called on President Donald Trump to use the upcoming summit with South Korea President Moon Jae-in to reaffirm the firmness of the alliance and to expedite a full deployment of the THAAD missile defense system.A total of 18 senators, led by Sens. Cory Gardner
U.S. President Donald Trump will do "whatever it takes to protect America" from North Korean threats if Chinese efforts to rein in the provocative regime don't work, the White House said Thursday.Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders made the remark during a press gaggle in response to a questi