投稿者: Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies in Seoul
Koreans hope politics can return to a focus on record high youth unemployment and a cost of living crisis after impeachment dramaAfter the unprecedented turmoil of the past six months, South Koreans could be forgiven for breathing a collective sigh of …
Analysis: Congress gathering ends with Kim taking symbolic post of general secretary and a warning the US needs a fresh strategyA rare meeting of North Korea’s ruling party has ended with a symbolically important new title for the country’s leader, Kim…
Japan denounces ruling as ‘unacceptable’ as row over sexual enslavement of women in the second world war enters new chapterJapan has denounced as “utterly unacceptable” a South Korean court ruling ordering it to pay damages to women who were sexually e…
Destroyer moves into region one day after Revolutionary Guards seize a South Korean tankerSouth Korean forces have arrived in waters near the strait of Hormuz as pressure builds on Iran to free a South Korean tanker it seized along with its crew on Mon…
Kim Jong-un unexpectedly vetoes the idea to redeploy troops to the border amid rising tensions between the two countriesKim Jong-un has suspended plans to increase military pressure on South Korea, in a surprise move that comes after weeks of mounting …
Kim Yeon-chul, who did not meet any officials from Pyongyang in his 14-month tenure, takes responsibility for deterioration in relations South Korea’s minister in charge of relations with North Korea has resigned to take responsibility for a rapid dete…
Pyongyang news agency steps up war of words against Seoul as Kim Jong-un’s sister says South’s president has put his neck in ‘noose of US flunkyism’North Korea has accused South Korea of behaving like a “mongrel dog” bent on confrontation in a state me…
Voters reward Moon Jae-in for response to pandemic with biggest majority since transition to democracy in 1987Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea’s ruling party has won a landslide victory in national assembly electi…