Tag: South Korea

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking before leaving for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, said on Friday he wanted to convey to the world...

SEOUL: A delegation of North Korean skiers and skaters arrived in the South on Thursday to take part in the Winter Olympics later this...

MELBOURNE: History-making Chung Hyeon became the first South Korean to reach a Grand Slam semi-final and the lowest-ranked player in 14 years to get...

SEOUL: Seoul’s presidential Blue House rejected criticism on Tuesday that next month’s Winter Games had been hijacked by North Korea, saying the event will...

ISLAMABAD: A press release issued by the Foreign Office (FO) said on Tuesday that Pakistan hoped that the recent talks between  North Korea and South...

BEIJING: North Korea's International Olympic Committee representative says his country is likely to compete in figure skating in next month's Winter Olympics in South...

SEOUL: North and South Korea will hold official talks next week for the first time in more than two years after Pyongyang accepted Seoul’s...

SEOUL: South Korea on Tuesday offered talks with North Korea amid a standoff over its weapons programs, a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong...

SEOUL: South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs...

SEOUL: Emblazoned with a tiger and a bear -- the mascots of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics -- a blue and white high-speed...

South Korean President Moon Jae-In hopes to “normalise” ties with giant neighbour China on his first state visit to the country this week, his...

SEOUL/BEIJING: The United States and South Korea went ahead with large-scale joint aerial drills on Monday, a move North Korea had said would push...

  North Korea has fired an unidentified ballistic missile, South Korean military's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday night. The missile flew eastward from South...

SEOUL: Two former heads of South Korea’s spy agency were arrested Friday on suspicion of paying millions of dollars in bribes to aides of ousted...

SEOUL: A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side Monday while defecting to South Korea at the truce village of...

PYONGYANG: United States (US) President Donald Trump was due to land in Hanoi on Saturday, as North Korea slammed his “warmonger” Asia tour, saying...

SEOUL: South Korea will join three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups in a joint drill scheduled for Nov. 11 to 14, the South’s military...