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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to nominate former Air Force Gen. David Stilwell to be the State Department's top diplomat for East Asia, a post that has remained unfilled for more than a year despite major challenges in the region. A White House statement on ...
Tourists may soon get to walk across the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea
Instgramming tourists may soon get the chance to re-enact one of Asia's most iconic moments in recent memory: April's embrace between the leaders of the two Koreas. Visitors to the Joint Security Area — where soldiers from the two sides have stood face to face ...
Two Koreas and U.N. Command hold first talks on disarming border
North Korea, South Korea and the United Nations Command (UNC) held their first three-way talks on Tuesday to discuss demilitarizing the border as the two Koreas push for peace, Seoul's Defense Ministry said. The two Koreas agreed during last month's summit in Pyongyang to form ...
South Korean president lobbies for Kim Jong Un on Europe tour
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that world powers needed to reassure North Korea's Kim Jong Un that he had taken the right decision in committing to scrap his nuclear weapons program. Moon, who has met Kim three times this year, is on a ...
Koreas agree on host of plans, including one to connect railways, roads between North and South
North and South Korea continued their push for peace Monday with high-level talks that saw a host of agreements, including a plan by the rivals for a groundbreaking ceremony this year on an ambitious project to connect their railways and roads. The agreements come amid ...
Five South Korean climbers and their four Nepali guides have been killed after their base camp in the Himalayas was ravaged by a storm, local police and hiking officials said Sunday. The disaster, which claimed the life of record-breaking Korean climber Kim Chang-ho, is the ...
Snowstorm kills at least eight South Korean climbers in Nepal
At least eight climbers from a South Korean expedition have died on Nepal's Mount Gurja after their camp was devastated by a violent snowstorm, officials said Saturday. The bodies of eight climbers — four South Koreans and four Nepali guides — were spotted among the ...
North Korea's economy grew 3.7% in 2017, Pyongyang professor estimates
North Korea's economy grew 3.7 percent in 2017, a professor of a think tank in Pyongyang said in brushing aside the view that the country has faced an economic contraction against a backdrop of international sanctions. Ri Gi Song, a professor of the Institute of ...
South Korea's Moon urges U.S. to move toward formally ending Korean War
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called on the United States to move toward the nuclear-armed North's demands for a declaration the Korean War is over, as the allies pursue increasingly different approaches towards Pyongyang. Washington has shied away from a formal announcement that the ...
Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak appeals 15-year prison term for corruption
Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will appeal a court verdict that last week sentenced him to 15 years in prison for corruption, his lawyer said Friday. Lee was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement charges — becoming the latest of the country's former leaders ...
North and South Korea will hold high-level talks on Monday at the border village of Panmunjom to discuss follow-up steps to their recent summit, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Friday. At their third summit in Pyongyang last month, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and North ...
Pope visit to North Korea feasible if well-prepared, could lead to pacification: South Korean bishop
A trip by Pope Francis to North Korea is "a dream that can be realized" and would be a gigantic step towards peace on the Korean peninsula, a senior South Korean bishop said on Thursday. The bishop, Lazarus You Heung-sik of Daejeon, spoke ahead of ...
