South Korea

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korea on Tuesday dismantled huge loudspeakers used to blare anti-Pyongyang broadcasts and K-pop songs from its border with North Korea, as the South’s president asked the United Nations to observe the North’s planned closing of its nuclear testing site.The dismantling of dozens of South Korean loudspeakers …

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has asked the United Nations (UN) to help verify the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear power plant.South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday that Moon had made the request in a phone call with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the …

PYONGYANG (Web Desk) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history Friday by crossing over the world’s most heavily armed border to greet South Korean President Moon Jae-in for talks on nuclear disarmament. Kim then invited Moon to cross briefly back into the north with him before they returned to …

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korea’s disgraced former president Park Geun-hye was jailed for 24 years Friday for corruption, closing out a dramatic fall from grace for the country’s first woman leader, who became a figure of public fury and ridicule.The sentence followed a trial lasting more than 10 months which …

WASHINGTON DC (Web Desk) President Donald Trump has agreed to a historic first meeting with Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America’s high-stakes nuclear standoff with North Korea. Standing in front of the White House, South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong announced the first ever meeting between a …

PAYONGYANG (Web Desk) North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has met with a high-level delegation from the South, saying he firmly wishes to “vigorously advance” bilateral ties between the two Koreas.In a four-hour “openhearted talk” over dinner in Pyongyang on Monday,Kim “made an exchange of in-depth views on the issues for …

OHANNESBURG (Web Desk) Jacob Zuma resigned as President of South Africa, reluctantly heeding orders by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to bring an end to his nine scandal-plagued years in power.In a 30-minute farewell address to the nation, 75-year-old Zuma said he disagreed with the way the ANC had …

JOHANNESBURG (Web Desk) The ANC has decided to sack Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa, a senior official said on Tuesday, after a marathon meeting to determine the fate of a leader whose scandal-plagued years in power darkened and divided Nelson Mandela’s ‘Rainbow Nation.The decision by the ruling party’s …

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers North Korean hackers could have been behind the $530 million theft of virtual coins from a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange last month, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.The people, who had knowledge of parliament’s intelligence committee proceedings, told Reuters …

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korean officials rushed to identify 37 victims of a hospital blaze and pinpoint the cause on Saturday as President Moon Jae-in visited the burnt-out building and decried “one tragedy after another” to strike the country.Flames and toxic smoke swept through the Sejong Hospital in the southern …