South Korea

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korea announced new unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang — the first under President Moon Jae-In on Monday, a day before US President Donald Trump arrives in Seoul on an Asian tour dominated by the North’s nuclear programme.A total of 18 North Korean bankers stationed in China, Russia …

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korea’s president says his country will never “develop or own” atomic weapons but will also never recognize North Korea as a nuclear state.A push by North Korea to become a nuclear state cannot be accepted or tolerated,said President Moon Jae-in in an address to the South …

SEOUL (Web Desk) South Korea and China will push to normalise ties that were badly strained over the deployment of a contentious United States (US) missile defence system in the South, both countries announced Tuesday, with Seoul saying their leaders are set to hold summit talks next week.South Korea allowed …

SEOUL: (Web Desk) Thousands of South Koreans have taken to the streets of the capital to protest against joint Washington-Seoul military drills as well as the deployment of a controversial US missile system amid tensions with the neighboring North. An estimated 10,000 protesters packed the streets around Seoul Square on …