North Koreans back in contact office
seoul March 25, 2019 07:32North Korean officials returned to the liaison office on Monday where they usually meet with South Korean colleagues. Last week the North Koreans pulled themselves...
North Korean officials returned to the liaison office on Monday where they usually meet with South Korean colleagues. Last week the North Koreans pulled themselves...
The South Korean police have arrested two men who filmed illegal hotel guests and broadcast it directly over the internet. According to the police, images of around 1,600 came as a result...
School students from all over the world have skipped school to demand that governments take more action against climate change. Worldwide more than 2000 protests were scheduled in…
The South Korean intelligence service NIS has indications that Pyongyang is in the process of restoring part of the dismantled missile launch base Dongchang-ri. It looks like there is another...
The United States and South Korea stop two large joint military exercises. The countries say they have jointly decided to carry out the annual Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises...
He had hoped for it- South Korean president Moon Jae-in- is perhaps the biggest loser of the Vietnam summit. Moon hoped fiercely that Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un would make peace...
South Korea wants to work together with the United States and North Korea to reach an agreement on denuclearization. That is what the South Korean president Moon Jae-in said a day after the...
It will be a 'busy day', as US President Trump announced, when he went to dinner with Kim Jong-un for dinner, Wednesday evening. The two men already had a good conversation from...
There is probably no one who hopes for peace more than Kim Ryen-hui (49). She sold her sewing machine last year, she was convinced that she could finally return to North Korea...
A thoughtful mother gave 200 goodiebags to her fellow passengers during a ten-hour flight from Seoul to San Francisco in case her four-month-old baby crying...
South Korea thinks Vietnam is a good location for the second summit meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. That country was in the second half of the last century the scene of the bloody...
The North Korean ambassador in Italy applied for asylum in Rome in an unnamed Western country. The family of 48-year-old top graduate Jo Song Gil is in the meantime under...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wants to hold more summits next year with South Korean President Moon Jae-in to meet the goal of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
The personal data of nearly a thousand North Koreans who defected to the south have been leaked. The South Korean Ministry of Unification reported that the computer of an institute...
In a next step to rapprochement, South and North Korea have symbolically begun to restore their rail and road connections in the border area. Both countries held a ceremony on Wednesday...
Fans of a Korean pop group became so hysterical when they suddenly came face to face with their heroes aboard their plane, that the plane had to be evacuated.
A high-speed train was derailed on its way to the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday. All ten of the train sets derailed, but of the approximately two hundred passengers, only fourteen were injured, Yonhap news agency reported.
South Korea will release 58 people who have refused military service on the grounds of conscientious objection. The step comes after earlier this month the Supreme Court recognized conscientious objection as a legitimate reason to refuse service. For nearly fifty years, conscientious objectors in South Korea could count on imprisonment up to three years.
The South Korean Supreme Court has ordered the Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay compensation to former Korean forced laborers. They had to work without payment in the company's factories during the Second World War, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
Many South Koreans want the sanctions against North Korea to be relaxed to restart talks about the phasing out of the nuclear program there. This is shown by a survey conducted by the National Reunification Office.
The director of a South Korean television channel resigns because his daughter terrorized her driver. In the media, a recording had appeared that showed how the 10-year-old kid scolded the man and threatened to have him sacked, reports South Korean media.
An influential clergyman who sexually abused his female followers has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in South Korea. The victims of Lee Jae rock saw him as someone close to god and did not dare to resist, reports South Korean media.
North Korea is about to release an American who was arrested last month. That was reported by American and South Korean media on Saturday.
In a fire in a budget hotel in the South Korean capital of Seoul, at least six people were killed and twelve injured on Friday. According to local media, the authorities take into account that the number of victims continues to increase.
North Korean women are powerless against sexual violence by government officials. Unwanted sexual behavior occurs even so often that it is seen as a normal phenomenon in daily life in the isolated dictatorship, concludes Human Rights Watch after talks with dozens of displaced North Koreans.
North and South Korea have made new agreements to further reduce the tension between the two countries. For example, both countries will dismantle eleven border posts before the end of next month and form a military team that will investigate further measures.
The South Korean authorities have rejected the asylum application from hundreds of Yemeni asylum seekers. They had traveled to the popular Jeju island because they could go there without a visa. That measure was actually intended to attract more vacationers.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a brief visit to Pyongyang, worked out Kim Jong-un with 'options' for a new summit between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader. Washington called it a constructive conversation in which, among other things, the location and the date were discussed. It is 'another step forward', the American department reported without going into details.
Former president Lee Myung-bak of South Korea was sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption on Friday. He must also pay a fine of approximately 8.5 million euros. The court in Seoul ruled that Lee was guilty of, among other things, abuse of power and taking bribes from companies.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has left for the United States. He will personally discuss President Donald Trump about his recent summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, news agency Yonhap. The South Korean will also address the UN General Assembly.