Seoul : North Korea fired a sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, defying warnings from UN chief Ban Ki-moon and South Korea after a flurry of similar tests at the weekend.The latest firing was confirmed by the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), who said it was unclear if the ...

SEOUL : North Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into theEastSea(Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry ...

SEOUL - North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said.US and South Korean forces had been on heightened alert for a medium-range ballistic missile test in recent weeks amid tensions ...

KIRKUKSEOUL (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has pushed out a high-profile military figure who once played a key role under his late father - the latest in a series of top-level personnel changes.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) identified a new figure, Jon Chang-Bok, as first ...

SEOULNorth Korea has yet to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a missile, a senior US official said on Wednesday, contradicting a recent US military intelligence report.The North claimed its third atomic test staged in February involved a "miniaturised and lighter" warhead, prompting ...

SEOUL : South Korea and a US strike force led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz kicked off Monday a joint naval drill slammed by North Korea as a "wanton" provocation and rehearsal for war.The two-day exercise began with the departure of the 97,000-tonne Nimitz, one of the world's ...

BUSAN, South Korea : A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived off South Korea Saturday for drills, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea.The Nimitz Strike Group includes 64 aircraft as well as cruisers and destroyers, said the group’s commander, ...

SEOUL - Korea's Kim Hyung-Sung fired a five-under-par 67 to take a one shot lead after the second round at the OneAsia GS Caltex Maekyung Open near Seoul on Friday. Kim had six birdies and a bogey around the hilly 6,349 metre (6,943 yard) course at the Namseoul Country Club to stand at 10 under for ...

North Korea has taken a major step back from a planned missile test, US officials said, even as Pyongyang and Seoul exchanged fresh threats Tuesday of swift military retaliation to any provocation.A US defence official said two North Korean missiles -- primed for imminent test firing -- had been ...

lahore - Ambassador of South Korea to Pakistan Choong Joo Choi Friday called on Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah at WAPDA House and discussed with him the ways and means to enhance cooperation among Korean firms and WAPDA in water and hydropower ...

  seoul   North Koreasaid Thursday it had sentenced a Korean-American tour operator to 15 years' hard labour for "hostile acts", stoking tensions with theUnited Stateswhich had pleaded for his release. Kim Jong-Un's isolated regime is likely to use the detainee as a bargaining chip, ...

seoul - South Korea's inflation slowed to 1.2 percent on-year in April, reflecting falling oil and vegetable prices, government data showed Wednesday.The inflation rate was 0.1 percentage point down from a 1.3 percent on-year gain in the previous month, Statistics Korea said. It remained at the ...

SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday raided the country’s spy agency as part of a probe into allegations that it meddled in the presidential election in December, a news report said.A team of about 25 prosecutors and investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ ...

    PYONGYANG Metro North Koreais to build a replica of Big Ben in a new theme park opening in its capitalPyongyang. The ‘miniature world’ park will also boast a replica of theEiffelTower. According to reports, the secretive state is opening up its economy with luxury goods ...

SEOUL North Korea appears to be gearing up for a major military exercise, a report said on Sunday, amid tensions over an expected missile test and South Korea’s pullout from a joint industrial complex.Preparations are under way near the North’s western port of Nampo for a combined ...

CONN HALLINANIn the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula the Obama administration is virtually repeating the 2004 Bush playbook, one that derailed a successful diplomatic agreement forged by the Clinton administration to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons? While the acute tensions ...

South Korea said Friday it had decided to withdraw all remaining staff from its joint industrial complex with North Korea for their own safety, after Pyongyang shunned an offer of formal talks.The move comes after months of tension and puts into further doubt the entire future of the Kaesong ...

seoul -  South Korea on Thursday gave North Korea 24 hours to agree to formal talks to restart operations at their joint Kaesong industrial zone, warning of “significant measures” if Pyongyang declines.It was a rare ultimatum from the South, which is more used to being on the ...

SEOUL  - Dealing with monetary policy and interest rates is the Bank of Korea’s main role, but in May it will start hosting weddings - in an auditorium hung with the portraits of former central bank governors.Employees from the Bank of Korea will be allowed to get married inside the ...

SEOUL  - Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ casual style was the subject of criticism in some South Korean media Tuesday after he shook hands with President Park Geun-Hye, with one hand in his pocket.The picture of the meet-and-greet between Gates and Park Monday was splashed on the front ...

SEOUL :  North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, a report said Sunday. Expectations had been high that Pyongyang would carry out a test to coincide with ...

SEOUL North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a US condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss disarmament. North Korea, in a sign of a possible end to weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula, offered the ...

SEOUL North Korea offered talks Thursday with South Korea and the United States, but laid out pre-conditions that Seoul dismissed as “absurd” and analysts said would do little to reduce soaring tensions.The demands laid out by the North’s main military body included the withdrawal ...

SEOUL AFP North Korea barred a delivery of supplies to South Koreans in the closed Kaesong industrial zone Wednesday, as the South's president said it was time to stop rewarding Pyongyang's provocations.A delegation of 10 businessmen representing the 123 South Korean firms in Kaesong had applied to ...

seoul:- AFP A US military helicopter taking part in a joint South Korea-US drill crashed Tuesday near the North Korean border with 21 personnel on board. There were no fatalities. A statement put out by the US Forces in Korea said the CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter had “executed a hard ...

SEOUL North Korea on Tuesday threatened the South with “sledge-hammer” military action over anti-Pyongyang protests in Seoul and rejected the idea of entering into a “humiliating” dialogue with the United States.Both statements came a day after US Secretary of State John ...

CALIFORNIA:-BBCTHE Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been won by author Adam Johnson for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son. Last year, judges failed to select a winner of the award for fiction for the first time in 35 years. Johnson, who teaches creative writing at Stanford ...

TOKYO (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry pushed a message of dialogue with North Korea at the end of an Asia tour on Monday, as Pyongyang kept the world guessing over an expected missile launch.The North has a habit of linking high-profile military tests with key dates, and expectations had ...

TOKYO (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called on Pyongyang to go back to the negotiating table as he told Japan the United States would protect it from North Korea’s threats.Following a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, where Patriot missiles ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States on Friday said China’s currency remains “significantly undervalued” and warned Japan and South Korea against weakening their currencies to gain a trade advantage.In a twice-yearly finding to Congress on exchange-rate policies, the US Treasury ...