Hostile rhetoric crosses line
More diplomatic approaches needed to ease tensions
In a strongly-worded statement, North Korea is heightening tensions on the Korean Peninsula by issuing threats to occupy South Korea in the event of a war. North Korea…
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) held closed-door consultations on North Korea-related issues on Thursday, sources said, amid tensions heightened by Pyongyang’s recent launch of a claimed hypersonic missile and its hardening rhetoric against Seoul.
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Beyond Utopia,” an Oscar short-listed film on North Korean defectors, will be screened at the U.S. State Department in Washington this week, officials said Thursday, in an apparent move to shine a light on the escapees’ treacherous journey in search …
The fourth edition of the Winter Youth Olympics will open in eastern South Korea on Friday night, as the eyes of the winter sports world once again turn to Gangwon Province six years after the Winter Olympics in the region.
Gangwon Province will ser…
Recent satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site does not suggest imminent preparations for a new nuclear experiment despite apparent maintenance activity related to one of the underground tunnels there, a U.S. monitor said Thur…
From Jamaican bobsledders to Kenyan alpine skiers, more than two dozen athletes from countries with little winter sports tradition will compete at the Winter Youth Olympics in eastern South Korea beginning Friday, thanks to training opportunities pro…
South Korean stocks soared more than 1.3 percent Friday as big-cap chip shares rallied following an overnight tech boost on Wall Street. The local currency edged up against the U.S. dollar.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) jum…
Prosecutors indicted the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) on Friday over the bungled response to the deadly 2022 crowd crush in the district of Itaewon.
The indictment of SMPA chief Kim Kwang-ho came a year and three months after …
South Korea and the United States held a working-level cyber policy meeting Friday to bolster efforts against North Korea’s growing threats in cyberspace, the foreign ministry said.
Lee Dong-ryeol, the South Korean foreign ministry’s ambassador for …
Winter sports stars of the past, the present and the future for South Korea played significant roles in the opening ceremony of the country’s first Winter Youth Olympics here Friday.
The fourth edition of the youth competition kicked off in the east…