Georgy Zinoviev, the top Russian envoy to Seoul, told Yonhap that he met with South Korea’s first vice foreign minister Kim Hong-kyun earlier on the day, according to the news agency. South Korea’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. South Korea’s spy agency said last week that North Korea had […]
Relations between the two Koreas have deteriorated since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in January defined Seoul as his country’s “principal enemy” and said the North was no longer interested in reunification. After months of laying fresh mines and ramping up security on the border, the country this week blew up roads and railways […]
Pyongyang on Tuesday blew up deeply symbolic roads and railways connecting the two Koreas after warning any further drone flights would be considered a declaration of war, and ordered soldiers on the border to prepare to fire. Seoul initially denied sending drones, but Pyongyang claims it has “clear evidence” of official involvement in the campaign, […]
Since leader Kim Jong Un declared the South his country’s “principal enemy” earlier this year, the North has laid fresh mines, erected anti-tank barriers, and deployed missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads along the already heavily fortified border. Seoul’s military said it conducted “counter-fire” operations Tuesday near the heavily fortified border with the North after […]
The agency also sees the prospect of North Korea potentially carrying out a seventh nuclear test after the U.S. presidential election on November 5, Lee Seong-Kwon, who sits on the parliamentary intelligence committee, said. In July, a report by the Federation of American Scientists concluded that Pyongyang may have produced enough fissile material to build […]
Politics cannot function without public trust,” Kishida said in a press conference on Wednesday to announce his decision not to seek re-election as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader. “I will now focus on supporting the newly elected LDP leader as a rank-and-file member of the party,” he said. His decision to quit triggers a […]
South Korea was still analyzing the launch and did not immediately have confirmation whether there were any casualties or damage to North Korean property military spokesperson Lee Sung-joon told a briefing. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff earlier said the North fired a short-range ballistic missile that flew about 600 km (373 miles) and a […]
The Chinese premier met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Seoul with efforts to revitalize three-party free trade agreement negotiations, stalled since 2019, high on the agenda. As the summit opened, Li said the talks were “both a restart and a new beginning” and called for the […]
Pyongyang will make stern and decisive choices to protect its sovereignty and safety in response to Washington using human rights as a tool for invasion and hostile, anti-North Korea behavior, state media KCNA quoted a foreign ministry spokesperson as saying. The spokesperson cited a special envoy on human rights in the administration of President Joe […]
Kim lashed out at Washington in lengthy remarks wrapping up five days of ruling party meetings that set economic, military, and foreign policy goals for the coming year. “Because of reckless moves by the enemies to invade us, it is a fait accompli that a war can break out at any time on the Korean […]
