Japan and South Korea responded positively to the new sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday. The South Korean government said that Pyongyang should realize that 'recklessly challenging international peace' will only lead to further punitive measures.
The US rocket defense system THAAD in South Korea was further expanded on Thursday. Despite protests by hundreds of inhabitants, the Americans according to South Korean media transported another four rocket launchers to a base in Seongju, about three hundred kilometers south of Seoul.
Nice, an adventure abroad. But what if you threaten a temporary neighbor with a nuclear war? Mark Balneger, 27, has a company in South Korea, and is not going to sell Kim Jong-un but remains threatened.
US President Trump has, in principle, granted South Korea permission to buy more weapons. Seoul and Washington can therefore strengthen joint forces in the Korean region.
China has fought North Korea to stop its 'wrong' actions and adhere to resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. The Beijing Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday after North Korea had informed a successful trial of a hydrogen bomb. The nuclear weapon would be suitable for being placed on an intercontinental missile.
The supreme US military, chairman of the Joint Chief of Defense, General Joseph Dunford, said Monday that his country has left all military options against North Korea open. This in case the diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Asian country fail.
German air force jetists have seized a Korean Air Boeing 777 on Saturday night and forced to land at Stuttgart Airport. The aircraft was in transit with 211 passengers from Seoul to Zurich, Switzerland, when the radio contact was suddenly discontinued, a spokesperson said. After the plane landed, a technical defect was detected, police said.
North Korea has one last chance to enter into dialogue with the international community. That said South Korean President Moon Jae-Monday in a conversation with former US President Barack Obama, who is due to a conference in Seoul.
The North Korean drone who discovered South Korea last week appears to have taken photographs of the US rocket defense system THAAD that has built the United States. On the way back to North Korea, the unmanned plane collapsed in mountainous areas in eastern South Korea, not far from the border between the two countries.
The new South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, indignated on Tuesday to investigate the arrival of additional American air defense. He did not know anything about the coming. Moon was shocked when he heard from security chief Cheong Wa-days that four rocket installations were being placed under the United States defense shield against North Korea, Yonhap press office reported.
In the court of Seoul, Tuesday began the process against South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. They are being prosecuted for office abuse and putting pressure on businesses to pay millions of euros to bribes. She can disappear behind bars for more than ten years if she is found guilty.
The new South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has a summit with Washington's president Donald Trump in late June. That's what Moon's spokesperson told the South Korean press office Yonhap.
North Korea is prepared to speak with the United States under the right circumstances. This said a North Korean top diplomat, Choe Son-hui, Saturday in Beijing according to the South Korean press office Yonhap.
The National Security Advisor of President Donald Trump has assured South Korea that the country does not have to pay on the THAAD anti-missile system. That made the South Korean authorities known Sunday, reports Yonhap press office.
South Korea is in a state of readiness in the run-up to another major celebration in North Korea, the 85th anniversary of the establishment of the national army next Tuesday. It comes after the recently held military parades. On both sides of the border there are high concentrations of military equipment while there is great concern about a new nuclear test by Pyongyang.
The United States is not surprised by the missile test by North Korea held Sunday. They see no reason as to further respond.
A North Korean attempt to launch a ballistic missile, seems to have ended in failure. 'The projectile exploded almost immediately,' said a US military spokesman Saturday (local time). 'There is still selected for some type of missile it went.'
North Korea celebrates Saturday under great tension with the US that the founder of the Stalinist dynasty, Kim Il-sung, was born on April 15, 1912. The current dictator in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-un, is a grandson of the founder, who came to power in 1949 and died in 1994.
A gigantic fireworks has Sunday night, controls the air above Jamsil, in the southeast of Seoul. It was aimed at the opening of the Lotte World Tower, with 555 meters to set the fifth tallest building in the world, in the spotlight.
South Korea has stepped into the World Trade Organization because of a conflict with China. Beijing would tackle companies in the neighboring country because of the row over the US missile defense system THAAD.
The ousted President Park Geun-hye of South Korea will leave the presidential residence in Seoul before 18:00 local time. Which announced the South Korean Yonhap news agency Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans are Saturday took to the streets to celebrate President Park Geun-hye a day earlier was put in office by the Constitutional Court, reports The Korea Herald.
South Korea will be held no later than May 9 presidential election to choose a successor to the deposed Park Geun-hye. The elections will be free and fair, said the chairman of the electoral commission Saturday.
The South Korean intelligence claim that the murder of Kim Jong-nam has been planned by the North Korean Ministries of State Security and Foreign Affairs. They have briefed MPs in Seoul about their findings.
The United States along with Japan and South Korea requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. This response to the North Korean launch of a medium range. The meeting, according to a US UN envoy to take place sometime on Monday.
The United States and South Korea have agreed on the deployment of a US missile shield in the country. The missile defense system is aimed against the threat of North Korea said the South Korean defense minister Friday.
The new US Secretary of Defense James Mattis first travels after his appointment to the distant ally South Korea. The 66-year-old former general arrives to speak Thursday in Seoul about the relationship between the two countries and the security situation in the region.
Against the vice president of technology group Samsung has issued an arrest warrant.
A top executive of Samsung questioned in Seoul 22 hours due to a corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye of South Korea. Vice President Jay Y. Lee is suspected of bribery, reported South Korean media.
A Buddhist monk has burned in Seoul in protest against President Park Geun-hye of South Korea. The 64-year-old monk is incorporated in extremely critical condition in a hospital. In a note he left behind, he accused the president of 'incitement to rebellion'.
