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South Korean court upholds ruling against Mitsubishi Heavy over forced wartime labor in Japan
The Gwangju High Court tells Mitsubishi Heavy to pay a total of 470 million won ($422,000) to South Koreans conscripted as laborers during World War II.
Trump will grant Kim Jong Un's wishes after Pyongyang denuclearizes, Moon says
U.S. President Donald Trump will grant North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un his wishes if he delivers on denuclearization, the South Korean president said Sunday, following talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit. As officials work to arrange a second meeting between Trump and ...
U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed Friday in a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in that he wants a second summit with North Korea's leader, the White House said. Trump and Moon, meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, ...
North Korean soldier defects to South over heavily fortified border
A North Korean soldier fled across a heavily fortified border to defect to South Korea early Saturday, the military in Seoul said, just as the rivals began taking steps to reduce military tensions. South Korean soldiers escorted the defector to safety after finding him moving ...
South Korean conscientious objectors to be paroled after landmark ruling
Dozens of South Korean conscientious objectors are set to be released from jail on parole on Friday after a landmark court decision that conscience is a valid reason to refuse mandatory military service. The Supreme Court, South Korea's top court, overturned earlier in November about ...
South Korea sends trains over border into North for first time in decade
South Korea sent rail cars and dozens of officials to North Korea on Friday for joint surveys on northern sections of railway the countries hope someday to connect with the South. The weeks-long inspections, which will see South Korean cars running on North Korean tracks ...
Breaking down the issue of wartime labor that has rocked Japan-South Korea ties
The diplomatic crisis between Seoul and Tokyo deepened further Thursday as two South Korea courts ordered two Japanese firms to pay compensation to South Korean wartime laborers. Experts and diplomats say there has been a huge gap in perception between the two nations over the ...
Kim Jong Un's gift of two hunting dogs to South Korea in September is starting to bear more fruit, first with a litter of puppies and now with a landmark railway deal. South Korea will send trains across the border to North Korea for the ...
South Korea moves closer to space launch vehicle with successful rocket engine test
South Korea on Wednesday successfully conducted a rocket engine test launch, officials said, paving the way for the development of its own space launch vehicle. Video footage showed the single-stage rocket, propelled by a liquid fuel engine, lift off from the Naro Space Center on ...
North Korea's Kim reportedly open to inspections at main Nyongbyon nuclear complex
Exactly a year since nuclear-armed North Korea last tested a missile — its most powerful to date — news has emerged that leader Kim Jong Un is open to inspections at his country's main nuclear complex. Citing a senior diplomatic source, South Korea's Yonhap news ...
South Korea apologizes over vagrants' kidnapping, abuse and slave labor
South Korea's top public prosecutor on Tuesday apologized over what he described as a botched investigation into the enslavement and mistreatment of thousands of people at a vagrants' facility in the 1970s and 1980s nearly three decades after its owner was acquitted of serious ...
American bombers no longer flying over Korean peninsula, U.S. Pacific Air Forces general says
U.S. bombers are no longer conducting flights over South Korea after Seoul asked for such missions to be paused, a U.S. general said Monday. Gen. Charles Brown, who heads U.S. Pacific Air Forces, told Pentagon reporters that the break was to help create space for ...
