South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North blew up a liaison office to ramp up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration.
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A man was shot Monday night as protesters in Albuquerque tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the Albuquerque Museum.
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North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a choreographed display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
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North Korea said it was cutting off all communication channels with South Korea on Tuesday, a move experts say could signal Pyongyang has grown frustrated that Seoul has failed to revive lucrative inter-Korean economic projects and persuade the United States to ease sanctions.
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China and South Korea, which had early, intense outbreaks of the coronavirus, together reported only four new infections Tuesday among their 1.4 billion residents and were slowly resuming public events after months of containment efforts.
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North and South Korean troops exchanged fire along their tense border Sunday, the South’s military said, the first such incident since they took unprecedented steps to lower frontline animosities in late 2018.
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South Korea on Thursday reported no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases for the first time since the disease was detected in the country more than two months ago.
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The South Korean government said Tuesday no unusual activity has been detected in North Korea after unconfirmed reports described leader Kim Jong Un as in fragile condition after heart surgery.
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The Navajo Nation is ordering all people on the tribe’s sprawling reservation to wear protective masks when out in public to help fight the spread of the coronavirus.
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South Korea’s Supreme Court said Friday it will re-open a case related to the enslavement and abuse of thousands of people at a vagrants’ facility in the 1970s and 1980s, more than three decades after its owner was acquitted of serious charges. A finding that the government failed to protect the constitutional rights of former inmates could boost their push for compensation.
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South Korean firms will make their first shipment of coronavirus tests to the United States this week after a request by President Trump, Yonhap news agency reported Monday.
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South Korea says at least 74 people who had been diagnosed as recovered from the new coronavirus tested positive for the second time after they were released from hospitals.
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The “nut rage” heiress who forced a plane to turn back over her macadamias is fighting a bitter battle — with activist shareholder support — against her brother for control of the family airline, highlighting resistance to reform in South Korea’s chaebols.
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A South Korean hospital has introduced phone booth-style coronavirus testing facilities that allow medical staff to examine patients from behind the safety of a plastic panel, the latest innovation in the country’s drive to track down infections.
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South Korea, once grappling with the largest coronavirus outbreak outside China, saw its newly recovered patients exceed fresh infections for the first time Friday, and reported the lowest number of new cases in three weeks.
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South Korea struggled to find enough beds for its sick, Italy grappled with a rising number of deaths and concern grew over an expanding outbreak in the United States on Wednesday as the coronavirus that tormented China expanded elsewhere.
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South Korea’s birth rate hit a new low Wednesday as authorities announced barely 300,000 babies were born last year in the nation of 51 million people.
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The U.S. and South Korean militaries, used to being on guard for threats from North Korea, face a new and formidable enemy that could hurt battle readiness: the new Chinese coronavirus that has infected more than 1,200 people in South Korea.
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South Korea reported another large jump in new virus cases Monday a day after the president called for “unprecedented, powerful” steps to combat the outbreak that is confounding attempts to stop the spread.
Read moreSouth Korea’s president said Sunday that he was putting his country on its highest alert for infectious diseases, ordering officials to take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a soaring viral outbreak, while a continent away in Italy, authorities battled to contain Europe’s first major outbreak of the virus.
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