SEOUL — A prominent North Korean defector was tapped to head the presidential advisory council on unification, and an engineering professor was named the new science minister, the presidential office said Thursday. President Yoon Suk Yeol has tapped T…
Read MoreSEOUL — South Korea has imposed independent sanctions on a Hong Kong shipping company and a North Korean cargo ship for engaging in the illegal transfer of North Korean coal in violation of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, Seoul’s foreign min…
Read MoreSEOUL — The funeral for a sexual abuse victim, whose case caused public outrage over the military’s mishandling, began Thursday, over three years after the noncommissioned officer took her own life. Lee Ye-ram, a then 23-year-old female master sergean…
Read MoreSEOUL — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Thursday he is not concerned about the impact Donald Trump’s potential reelection as U.S. president could have on South Korea-U.S. relations, given the American people’s strong support for the alliance. Han mad…
Read MoreSEOUL — North Korea has again launched balloons presumed to be carrying trash toward South Korea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday. The JCS stated that the balloons appeared to be traveling toward the northern part of Gyeonggi Province th…
Read MoreSEOUL — North Korea appears to have “significantly increased” the amount of water discharged from the upstream of a dam near the inter-Korean border Thursday amid heavy rain, the environment ministry said. Satellite imagery taken at 3 a.m. showed that…
Read MoreSEOUL — South Korea’s recent win of a multimillion-dollar nuclear power project in the Czech Republic will rejuvenate the domestic nuclear industry, which has struggled under the previous administration’s phase-out policy, the industry minister said T…
Read MoreSEOUL — Top diplomats of South Korea and Canada held talks Thursday to discuss ways to expand cooperation in regional security, the economy, technology, and other areas, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and his Canadian coun…
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