SEOUL, Rescue workers retrieved one more body Tuesday after a fire at a lithium battery plant in Hwaseong, south of Seoul, one of the worst chemical plant accidents in the country.
The retrieval increased the death toll to 23 from the fire that gutt…
SEOUL, North Korea launched balloons presumed to be carrying trash toward South Korea late Tuesday, Seoul’s military said, just a day after it sent hundreds of similar balloons across the border.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said an unspecified n…
SEOUL, Surveillance footage from a lithium battery plant where a fire killed 23 people Monday revealed a harrowing timeline: it took just 42 seconds for thick smoke to engulf the facility following an initial battery explosion.
Eight others sustaine…
SEOUL, South Korea and the United States held a new round of negotiations Tuesday on sharing the cost for the upkeep of the 28,500-strong U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), Seoul’s foreign ministry officials said.
The three-day talks in Seoul came about two …
SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol boarded a visiting U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Tuesday ahead of joint drills between South Korea, the United States and Japan aimed at enhancing their responses against rising threats from North Korea.
Yoon v…