Tag: Korea

The architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program Abdul Qadeer Khan claims North Korea paid bribes to senior Pakistani military officials in return for nuclear...

South Korea's military said Wednesday it had arrested a Marine private for allegedly assisting an alcohol-fuelled shooting spree by a colleague that left four...

Pakistan Junior Hockey Team’s chances of winning the third U-18 Junior Asia Cup dashed in when Korea edged into the final beating the Junior...

South Korea’s professional football league on Friday imposed a lifetime ban on 10 players who have been charged with match-fixing schemes, the toughest penalty...

South Korean prosecutors said Thursday they have charged 12 people including 10 players with involvement in match-fixing that has rattled the K-League. The players...

North Korea threatened Thursday to disclose a voice recording of a secret meeting with South Korea, at which it says Seoul “begged” for summit...

China ended its warm-up matches ahead of 2014 World Cup qualifying Wednesday with a 2-0 victory over a seasoned North Korea in a friendly...

A six-member bench of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry delegation under the leadership of LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik Monday left...

North Korea delivered a stinging rejection of the South’s proposal for a series of three presidential summits over the next year, giving a blow-by-blow...

A veteran South Korean player said Friday his teammates had been asked to throw matches for money, as prosecutors expanded a probe into rampant...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied on Tuesday a UN report that Tehran had exchanged missile technology with North Korea, a move which could be a...

North Korea and Iran have shared ballistic missile technology, according to a UN sanctions report which China has sought to block, diplomats said Sunday. A...

Asian Games champions Pakistan came alive in the last 10 minutes of a Sultan Azlan Shah Cup match Friday, defeating former champions South Korea...

SEOUL - South Korea threw its support Tuesday behind Mohammed Bin Hammam in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as the head of world football's governing body FIFA. "We welcome the candidacy of Asian Football Confederation president Mohammed Bin Hammam," declared Chung Mong-Joon, the outgoing FIFA vice president and honorary chairman of the Korea Football Association.
Chung's comment came a day after FIFA confirmed the candidacies of incumbent president Blatter and Bin Hammam. The

SEOUL - South Korea repatriated on Sunday 27 North Koreans whose boat drifted into the South's waters last month, the South's Red Cross said, ending a row which threatened to further damage relations between the two Koreas.
Four North Koreans who had also been aboard the fishing boat decided to stay in the South, prompting the diplomatic dispute. The North Koreans were sent home across the disputed western sea border a day after the first anniversary of the sinking of a South

ROME - More than 6 million people in North Korea urgently need food aid because of substantial falls in domestic production, food imports and international aid, the United Nations said on Friday.
In a report released after a joint mission to the reclusive communist state, where a famine in the 1990s killed an estimated 1 million people, three UN agencies said North Korea's public distribution system would run out of food at the beginning of the lean season that runs between May

HONG KONG - South Korea's finest celebrated after they blitzed the annual Asian Film Awards on Monday, bolstering the country's growing reputation as the pre-eminent force in the region. South Korean movie stars and filmmakers dominated the glitzy ceremony in Hong Kong, now in its fifth year, snapping up awards for best director, best screenplay, best actor, best supporting actress and best editing. Lee Chang-Dong clinched best director for the feature film 'Poetry,' which also won