South Korea

North Korea fires multiple-rocket launcher, South Korea says

North Korea appeared to have fired a short-range multiple rocket launcher on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened military tensions on the peninsula after a spate of larger missile launches by the nuclear-armed North. While they garner much less attention than

March 20, 2022

Asia·Breaking News

Jim Jong Un is Not Dead; South Korea says

South Korea believes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is not dead. After days of speculation and rumours of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s ill health and rumoured death. A South Korean government official has said Kim Jong Un is

April 27, 2020

Breaking News

Emergency measures after rise in coronavirus cases in South Korea

South Korea’s prime minister says the country is facing an “emergency” after another rise in coronavirus cases. Dozens have been linked to a church in the eastern city of Daegu. The government is increasing medical resources to try and stop any further

February 21, 2020

Technology

United States reportedly urges South Korea to reject Huawei products

Seoul – The US government is lobbying South Korea not to use Huawei Technologies Co Ltd products, a South Korean newspaper reported on Thursday, amid a wider push by Washington to get its allies to reject the Chinese tech firm’s goods. In

May 23, 2019

Breaking News

US President Trump praises North Korean statements following Pyongyang summit

United States President Donald Trump deeply expressed excitement after North Korean government’s statements after inter-korean summit in Pyongyang, Sputnik reported. North Korea and South Korea signed a joint statement as well as an agreement in military sector following the results of the

September 19, 2018

Europe·US & Canada·US politics

South Korean envoys visits North Korea for meeting amid stalled denuclearization talks

South Korean envoys arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday in a bid to help break an impasse in North Korea’s nuclear negotiations with the U.S. and plan for President Moon Jae-in’s third summit with North leader Kim Jong Un later this month. South

September 5, 2018

Breaking News

N. Korea’s Leader holds ‘open-hearted’ talks with officials from South

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held an “openhearted talk” with envoys for South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday, the North said Tuesday, the first time South Korean officials have met with the Kim in person since he took power in

March 6, 2018

Africa

North Korean Olympic athletes arrive in South Korea

A figure skating pair are among 10 North Korean athletes who have arrived in South Korea for the Winter Olympics. There are also three alpine skiers, three cross-country skiers and two short-track skaters. After landing at Yangyang International Airport on a rare,

February 1, 2018

Breaking News

North and South Korea’s first formal talks in more than two years begin

North and South Korea began their first official talks in more than two years on Tuesday, focussing on the forthcoming Winter Olympics after months of tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. The talks in Panmunjom, the truce village in the Demilitarized Zone that

January 9, 2018

Breaking News·US & Canada

Donald Trump ‘ready for direct talks with North Korea’

But even as Washington stressed the importance of a negotiated end to the standoff, Kim Jong-un vowed to make his nation “the strongest nuclear power and military power in the world.” President Donald Trump has promised that Kim will not be allowed to complete his effort

December 13, 2017

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