Now that Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn is out of the Presidential race, who has grabbed the 10 to 15 percent popularity rating he used to enjoy?Governor Hong Jun-pyo of Gyeongsangnam-do Province got the lion’s share of Hwang’s votes. Here are the latest poll results disclosed by the CBS Radio this mo

The ongoing deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea is a self-defense measure aimed solely at North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, a senior foreign ministry official here said Wednesday.South Korea and the U.S. recently started the process of installing a Terminal High A

North Korea's foreign earnings are expected to be curtailed by 20 percent in 2017 from three years ago due largely to the ongoing U.N. sanctions, a U.S. broadcaster said Wednesday."The North, which earned US$3.6-4.0 billion in 2014, is likely to see about $8-billion loss this year due to sancti

South Korean prosecutors summoned ex-President Park Geun-hye to undergo questioning early next week, a prosecution official said Wednesday, as she was removed from office over a string of corruption allegations."The prosecution team has sent a summons to former President Park Geun-hye's legal r

South Korea's top economic policymaker will participate in the upcoming Group of 20 finance ministers' meeting later this week to discuss ways to improve international policy coordination with world leaders, his office here said Wednesday.Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho, who doubles as the deputy

Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn is expected to announce this afternoon that May 9, 2017 will be the Presidential election day.Reports inidcate competent government authorities have already begun preparations with May 9 in mind as the election day.

Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn will announce his decision not to run in the presidential election slated for May during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, a source said.The Cabinet meeting will be held at 2 p.m. at the central government complex in Seoul, the source said.Hwang has long

South Korea's presidential security advisor said Wednesday he will hold talks with his U.S. counterpart this week over North Korea's growing military threats and ways to further strengthen the Seoul-Washington alliance.Kim Kwan-jin, the chief of the National Security Office, made the remarks

Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Wednesday renewed his appeal for national unity at a time the country is reeling from the dismissal of President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal.During a ceremony marking the 57th anniversary of a historic pro-democracy uprising, Hwang als

Former President Park Geun-hye's legal representative said Wednesday she will fully cooperate with the investigation, as prosecutors summoned her over multiple corruption allegations that led to her ouster last week.A prosecution team looking into the influence-peddling scandal centered on Park

South Korean prosecutors summoned ex-President Park Geun-hye to undergo questioning on Tuesday, a prosecution official said, as she was removed from office over a string of corruption allegations.Park, the country's first democratically elected leader to be ousted, has been named a criminal susp

Drizzle and strong winds greeted reporters as they stepped onto the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier Tuesday to cover the ongoing joint exercises by South Korea and the United States.Ninety minutes of flight aboard a C-2A Greyhound cargo plane brought them from Osan Air Base, a U.

The State Department on Tuesday urged North Korea to free an American college student detained in the communist nation for more than a year.The University of Virginia student, Otto Warmbier, was arrested in January 2016 while on trip to the North for allegedly stealing a political propaganda sign fr

The United States should not rush to re-designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism because the move could deteriorate the already-high tensions on the Korean Peninsula to spin out of control, a former senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday.Calls for adding Pyongyang back to the State Departmen

A high-profile North Korean defector here said Tuesday that an upcoming massive nuclear test by the North could bring about environmental catastrophe and the subsequent collapse of its regime if it fails."A nuclear test which the North is trying to conduct at the Punggye-ri test site will break the

More than seven in 10 North Korean defectors stayed in Thailand en route to South Korea, a poll released by Seoul's unification ministry showed Tuesday, with over half of the defectors citing economic hardships as the top reason to flee the North.In the survey of graduates of a resettlement educ

Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to summon former President Park Geun-hye this week for questioning over a corruption scandal.Park will be summoned as a suspect over allegations she colluded with her friend Choi Soon-sil to extort money from Samsung Group."We will decide tomorrow when to summon f

South Korea's presidential national security adviser will visit the United States this week for talks with his counterpart on North Korea, the presidential office here said Tuesday.Kim Kwan-jin, chief of the National Security Office, will head to Washington Wednesday to meet with H.R. McMaster,

Defusing tensions over North Korea and the deployment of a THAAD missile defense battery will be key topics when U.S. President Donald Trump holds a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the White House said Monday.White House press secretary Sean Spicer made the remark in response to news repor

The government is close to fixing the date of the presidential election to May 9, a senior official said Monday, in the wake of the ouster of President Park Geun-hye.Park was removed from office Friday after a court ruled to uphold her impeachment over a corruption scandal.By law, South Korea is req