Seoul mayor's funeral held despite half a million objections
The funeral service for Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, who took his own life after being accused of sexual harassment, was held Monday despite a petition against the city-run ceremony signed by half a million people. Former human rights lawyer Park was a heavyweight figure in ...
North Korean defectors face wrath of both Seoul and Pyongyang
Two brothers who led defector groups were questioned by police last week, after the government sought to have them prosecuted over leaflets sent over the border.
South Korea shakes up security team after North Korea setbacks
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in shook up his security team and appointed veterans in North Korea relations after Kim Jong Un’s regime blew up a joint liaison office that once served as a symbol of his rapprochement toward Pyongyang. Moon named Park Jie-won as the ...
Top adviser to South Korea's Moon unsure of North's willingness to denuclearize
South Korean President Moon Jae-in's top security adviser has voiced uncertainty over North Korea's willingness to give up its nuclear weapons, saying it ultimately depends on whether the United States offers incentives. "(North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) did really have willingness to denuclearize when ...
South Korean police raid office of anti-North leafleting activist
South Korea police on Friday raided the office of an activist whose anti-Pyongyang leafleting campaign has intensified tensions with North Korea. Police said officers visited the Seoul office of Park Sang-hak to confiscate leaflets, account books and other related materials. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency ...
Kim Jong Un’s erratic behavior shows North Korea is stuck
On Wednesday, Kim continued to surprise, announcing the suspension of newly announced “military action plans” against South Korea. Hours later, Seoul said it observed North Koreans removing loudspeakers that were recently installed.
North Korea's Kim backtracks on military threat, but more surprises likely in store
After weeks of vitriol, leader offers apparent off-ramp for defusing rising tensions with Seoul, one day before the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
Worst North Korea economy in two decades pushing Kim to lash out
After destruction of inter-Korean liaison office, analysts warn of even more provocative behavior over the next year.
South Korea blasts John Bolton's Trump-Kim narrative as 'distorted'
South Korea's presidential office on Monday accused former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton of distorting facts and jeopardizing future negotiations with his scathing account of President Donald Trump's North Korea summit strategy. Bolton's forthcoming memoir "The Room Where it Happened" takes both Trump and ...
South Korea's unification minister quits as tensions with North rise
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 destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the U.S. Kim Yeon-chul, whom ...
North Korea falls back on familiar playbook to ratchet up tensions
North Korea is literally blowing up its relationship with the South. But its bark looks bigger than its bite — at least for now.
North Korea warns of retaliatory actions over defectors in South
The statement came days after South Korea took legal action against defectors who have been sending material such as rice and anti-North leaflets.
