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South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak said on Monday he felt it was his duty and his mission to deliver the 2018 Winter Olympics to...

Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Pakistan Choongjo Choi called on Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at Chief Minister’s House on Monday to...

A Korean firm named Lotia, which has so far invested around $10 billion in India, is willing to transfer its investment there to Pakistan,...

Chinese and South Korean leaders chatted with evacuees and tasted local produce in Japan’s battered northeast on Saturday, in a show of support for...

The Sindh province possesses many natural resources, including vast coal reserves in Thar, which are being utilised for development and progress, and the Korean...

Good People International (GPI), a South Korean NGO, in collaboration with Pak Fellowship, a local civil society organisation, distributed uniforms among 300 primary students...

SEOUL - A North Korean crossed the tense Yellow Sea border by boat on Saturday in an apparent defection to South Korea. Yonhap news agency said the man arrived on the frontline island of Baengnyeong in the morning after drifting at sea on a unpowered barge.
The agency quoted island residents as saying the 200-ton barge is believed to be a sand carrier. A joint team of police and military officials was to interrogate the man. Baengnyeong and four other islands near the disputed

BEIJING - China on Saturday called the situation on the Korean peninsula "extremely precarious" and urged more talks to ease tensions, the Xinhua news agency reported, as Seoul prepared for a live-fire drill.
Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said Beijing was "deeply concerned and worried" about the situation on the peninsula, which is seeing its worst crisis in years, sparked by the North's shelling of a South Korean island last month.
Zhang on Friday summoned Seoul's

MOSCOW: North Korea's foreign minister held rare talks in Russia on Monday amid a flurry of diplomatic attempts to ease tensions following Pyongyang's deadly attack on a South Korean island last month.
Pak Ui-Chun is on a visit to Russia until Wednesday and was in talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on a number of issues, a spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said.
"The talks are ongoing," the spokesman told AFP, saying it would be premature to comment

KARACHI: A Korean dog has kept officials from the intelligence agencies and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on the runaround since Thursday - first to locate him and then to feed him.
"The dog, Mind Reader, travelled all the way from Seoul Korea, landed in Afghanistan, and then arrived in Karachi on Thursday," sources privy to the matter told Pakistan Today. A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft had been chartered by NATO forces to transport a unit of the South Korea

PARIS: A former Iranian diplomat who defected to the West said Tuesday he had regularly seen North Korean technicians at Tehran airport between 2002 and 2007.
Western intelligence agencies suspect North Korea may be helping Iran to develop long-range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons technology. Tehran insists it simply wants to develop civilian nuclear power. Mohammed Reza Heydari, Iran's former consul general in Norway, defected amid protests in his homeland over Iranian

SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday warned of unpredictable consequences if the United States and South Korea go ahead with naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, days after launching a deadly attack on the South.
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier and its battle group were planning four days of exercises with South Korea from Sunday as a show of force after Pyongyang stunned the world with its artillery strike. The planned drill has also heightened tensions
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BEIJING: China warned Friday against military activity in its exclusive economic zone, ahead of weekend US-South Korean exercises intended as a show of force against Beijing's ally North Korea.
"We hold a consistent and clear-cut stance on the issue. We oppose any party to take any military actions in our exclusive economic zone without permission," foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement. Beijing said Thursday it opposed the war games, which come after North

HONG KONG: The Korean crisis and global economic woes jolted Asian stock markets on Wednesday although Hong Kong and Shanghai revived somewhat after sharp losses in the previous session.
Tokyo's Nikkei index was down 0.75 percent by lunch following sharp losses early in the day, while Sydney's S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.26 percent in the afternoon.
Seoul's Kospi index was off by 0.64 percent after initially falling 2.33 percent in its first reaction to Tuesday's outbreak

SEOUL: North Korea fired a deadly barrage of artillery shells onto a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers in one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-53 war, inciting global condemnation.
South Korea's military went on top alert, its troops fired back with cannon and the government met in an underground war room, officials said, in response to what Seoul called an atrocity against civilians.
North Korea's supreme command, however,

LAHORE: In a bid to bail out Pakistan Railways (PR) from prevailing engine shortage crisis, Korean Railways (Korail) has offered PR authorities cooperation in the field of locomotives.
The general manager (Operations) PR disclosed this during a media briefing about the outcomes of a meeting with a nine-member delegation of Korean Railway (Korail) here at railway Headquarters on Monday. Ashfaq Ahmad Khatak told the media persons that Korean railways was ready to help out PR in the