投稿者: Reuters in Seoul
New York Times says Trump authorized mission to plant listening device; team killed fishers they encounteredUS Navy Seals shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-arme…
World’s lowest fertility rate leaves Seoul 50,000 troops short of maintaining defence readiness, report warnsSouth Korea’s military has shrunk by 20% in the past six years, largely due to a sharp decrease in the population of men of enlistment age for …
Politician spent 52 days in jail after being charged with insurrection but was released four months agoFormer South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol returned to jail on Thursday after a court approved a warrant sought by prosecutors investigating his att…
All 176 people onboard escaped safely after blaze began inside Airbus jet preparing to take off from Gimhae airportAn Airbus plane belonging to South Korean carrier Air Busan has caught fire on a runway at Gimhae international airport in the country’s …
Recording of flight data ceased four minutes before Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people, says transport ministryFlight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people, stopped recordi…
Recording of flight data ceased four minutes before Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people, says transport ministryFlight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people, stopped recordi…
Request comes after attempts to detain Yoon Suk Yeol were thwarted by presidential security service guards last weekSouth Korea’s investigating authorities have requested an extension of a warrant to arrest the country’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Y…
Pyongyang calls large-scale ‘Freedom Edge’ drills involving fighter jets and nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier ‘provocative’North Korea has criticised a joint military exercise by South Korea, Japan and the US held this month, state media has said, s…
Kremlin says gift was chosen as Kim liked the car when Putin showed it to him in Russia last yearVladimir Putin gave Kim Jong-un a luxury Russian Aurus limousine as a gift because the North Korean leader liked the car when the Russian president showed …
Bodies recovered from underpass as downpours trigger landslides and force evacuation of thousandsRescuers in South Korea are battling to reach people trapped in a flooded tunnel, while at least 37 people have died after heavy rains caused flooding and …
Rafael Grossi met with protests in Seoul during visit to try to calm fears over radioactive water dischargeProtesters have confronted the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog during a visit to South Korea in an attempt to calm fears over Japan’s…
Man identified locally as George King-Thompson, who was previously jailed after free-climbing London’s ShardA British man, previously jailed after free-climbing the Shard in London, has reportedly been arrested in South Korea after attempting to climb …
Strategic cruise missiles hit a target after travelling 2,000km, says state media, to demonstrate ‘war posture’ of nuclear forceNorth Korea test-fired four strategic cruise missiles during a drill designed to demonstrate its ability to conduct a nuclea…
State media dismissed ‘rumour of arms dealings’ and said the nation had no plans for exports of weaponsNorth Korea has claimed it has never supplied weapons or ammunition to Russia, and does not plan to do so, adding that “reckless” US reports of weapo…
Rising water levels on the Imjin River caused by suspected release prompts holidaymakers and residents to leaveNorth Korea appears to have released water from a dam near its border with South Korea, prompting vacationers in the neighbouring country to …