There seems to be a curse on the presidency of South Korea. Former leader Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in jail and a mega fine because of large-scale corruption. She is certainly not the first head of state in Seoul with whom it ends badly.
Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye (66) has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. The court ruled, among other things, that Park had conspired with its confidant Choi Soon-sil to get money from companies.
North and South Korea are considering establishing a direct hotline between the leaders of the countries. That should enable dictator Kim Jong-un and President Moon Jae-in to 'regularly' consult, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.
The armed forces of the United States and South Korea started Sunday's joint spring exercise. The starting time was postponed due to the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang in February. This was done in order not to thwart the cautious rapprochement between North and South Korea.
For the first time in thirteen years, South Korean pop stars are performing again in North Korea. A 120-member delegation from South Korea arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Saturday. Among the delegation members are pop star Cho Yong pill and the girl group Red Velvet.
A South Korean is suspected of having killed his new bride by injecting her liquid nicotine. The 22-year-old man and his 19-year-old wife were on their honeymoon in Japan when he injected her well. The police suspect him that he wanted to claim her life insurance of 114,000 euros.
North and South Korea held a summit meeting for the first time in more than ten years on 27 April. South Korean officials said that after negotiations with senior officials from Pyongyang.
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, paid an unofficial visit to China from Sunday to Wednesday. There the North Korean leader met with the Chinese president Xi Jinping. This is confirmed by the Chinese state press agency Xinhua and the North Korean news agency KCNA.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has traveled to China according to the American news agency Bloomberg. Bloomberg relies on three sources that are not mentioned by name.
Rescue workers, according to South Korean media, get passengers from a ship that has walked on the rocks. The boat ran on the rocks off the southwest of the peninsula when it was tried to avoid a collision with a fishing boat. At the time of the ship's accident, 187 passengers and five crew members were on board.
They are known as singers of one of the best K-pop bands that exist, but their fame will soon rise to a much higher level. Seoul hopes that a performance by Red Velvet will help to revive the talks with North Korea.
South Korean artists will spend a four-day visit to Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 31, to improve the relationship between the two countries.
The US and South Korea start their annual military exercises in South Korea on April 1st. This has been announced by the US Department of Defense. The timing is remarkable, because at the end of that month a summit is planned between the South Korean president Moon Jae-in and his North Korean colleague Kim Jong-un. North Korea traditionally sees military exercises as a provocation.
A North Korean top diplomat has left for Finland for interviews with American former diplomats and South Koreans. The North Korean Choe Kang-il, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, was spotted in Beijing, where he boarded a plane to the northern European country.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has conveyed his congratulations to the re-elected Chinese president Xi Jinping. He did so on Sunday through the North Korean state press agency KCNA.
South Korea wants to work on planning a summit between President Moon Jae-in and dictator Kim Jong-un. Seoul wants top officials from the neighboring countries to sit around the table later this month to prepare the talks between the leaders, news agency Yonhap.
Not only for America and North Korea the planned meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is of historical interest, also for South Korea there is a lot at stake. President Moon Jae-in is praised for his role as a mediator, but now the work really starts for him.
The South Korean government sends special envoys to Japan and China. The leaders of these countries are being updated on the outcome of the recent talks with North Korea, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.
Moon Jae stood in the water a few months ago. The president of South Korea was squeezed between Donald Trump, who threatened more and more, and his own people whom he had promised to approach North Korea peacefully. He did not seem to get out of it anymore.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in believes that the planned summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump could lead to the complete dismantling of the North Korean nuclear program.
North and South Korea do not form one Korean team on Friday at the opening of the Paralympic Games. Initially it was the intention that the two countries, together with the recent Winter Games, would jointly make their appearance. However, according to the South Korean Paralympic Committee that comes later with a statement, news agency Yonhap reports.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is willing to sit down with the US and talk about reducing nuclear weapons. Kim has said this to ambassadors of South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The envoys returned to Seoul on Tuesday after a two-day visit to North Korea, reported news agency Yonhap.
At the end of April the leaders of South and North Korea meet at a summit. President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met at the Panmunjeom border crossing, said a special adviser to Moon, Chung Eui-yong, after returning from his two-day trip to North Korea.
For the first time Kim Jong-un met with officials from the 'hostile' South Korea. The dictator sat at the table with representatives from Seoul on Monday, to carefully pave the way for further talks in which America should also join.
A group of special envoys travels to North Korea on behalf of South Korea with the aim of making progress in improving the relations between the two countries that have been in a state of war since the 1930s.
South Korea and the United States held a joint military exercise in early April that had been postponed due to the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games. That's what a security advisor from the South Korean president told Yonhap news agency.
In the trial of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye, prosecutors demanded 30 years' imprisonment for corruption on Tuesday. Park would also have to pay a fine of 90 million euros.
The United States should weaken their conditions for bilateral consultations with North Korea. That said the South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who called Pyongyang to show willingness to reduce the nuclear program.
North Korea is willing to talk with the US. That's what the delegation told at the Winter Games to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
The man in North Korea responsible for (possible) contacts with the US, has come along with the high delegation of that country attending the closure of the Winter Games Sunday. This will increase the expectation that the North Koreans will have a meeting with the Americans in South Korea.
