SEOUL, South Korea * North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in anannual New Year's speech Friday...Tonghyung, Kim
Tokyo? Japan’s nationalist prime minister denied Thursday that the country’s military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology and jeopardizing a fragile detente with his Asian neighbors. The comments by Shinzo Abe, a member of a group o...
The Ukrainian delegation later met separately with Yoon’s national security advisor, Shin Won-sik, and Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun. During the meetings, Umerov briefed the South Korean officials on the status of theRussia-Ukraine warand expressed hope that Kyiv ...
He said further discussions would take place next month, during his visits to Seoul and Tokyo. The South Korean president stressed the importance of a united response to North Korea, but also called on the North to choose a peaceful path. “I sincerely hope that this meeting will offer a ...
Lee was stabbed in his left neck by a man in his 60s during a visit to the southeastern port city of Busan on Jan. 2. He was transferred by helicopter to the hospital in Seoul for surgery after receiving an emergency treatment in Busan.■ ...
unreasonable idea of reunification" when he addressed inter-Korean relations, as he called for ramping up the war-fighting capabilities during an inspection trip to the headquarters of the 2nd Corps of the Korean People's Army on Thursday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported ...
South Korea’s constitution allows a president to impose military rule during “wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states.” But a president can’t maintain martial law if parliament opposes it with a majority vote. That’s what happened Wednesday. And it’s why...
During the visit, Kim denied claims by South Korean media that 1,000 to 1,500 North Koreans would have died from the floods and that multiple helicopters might have crashed during the emergency response. He described the reports as a “vicious smear campaign” by the South. Kim labeled Sout...
After the Korean War, South Korean politics was dominated by national security concerns. Reversing Carl von Clausewitz's well-known dictum, in South Korea, "politics is the continuation of war by other means." Until the late 1980s, polit... IJ Chung - 《Contributions to Conflict Management ...
South Korea’s constitution allows a president to impose military rule during “wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states.” But a president can't maintain martial law if parliament opposes it with a majority vote. ...