THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea. People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a DPRK missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, March 5, 2022. /CFP Yoon said on Thursday that he will deal "sternly" with the threat posed by...
This file photo taken on May 10, 2022 shows Yoon Suk-yeol swearing in as South Korea's president during the inaugural ceremony in the National Assembly plaza in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's parliament on Saturday failed to pass President Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment motion as most of r...
Under South Korea's constitution, the president can declare martial law during "wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states" that require the use of military force to maintain peace and order. It was questionable whether South Korea is currently in such a state. Whe...
Yoon Suk-yeol is sworn in as South Korea's president during the inaugural ceremony in the National Assembly plaza in Seoul, South Korea, May 10, 2022. (Photo by James Lee/Xinhua) SEOUL, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Yoon Suk-yeol of the biggest conservative People Power Party on Tuesday was swor...
South Korea's new President Yoon Suk Yeol waves from a car after the Presidential Inauguration outside the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.Lee Jin-man/APSEOUL, South Korea -- The inauguration of Yoon Suk-yeol as the 20th president of South Korea took place...
The United States is South Korea's key security ally, with Washington stationing about 27,000 troops in the country tohelp counter nuclear-armed North Korea. Yoon, a former prosecutor, has made what analysts describe as a string of unforced errors during his first months in office, which ...
South Korea, succeeding Hwang Kyo-ahn. He left office as governor of the South Jeolla Province on the same day. He is seen as having close ties with key Japanese politicians, having served many years as a senior officer in the Korea-Japan Parliamentarians' Union. Lee speaks fluent Japanese...
17, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol promised toexpand the government's support for surging defense exportsand bolster the country's nascent space industrial base.Arms exports topped $17.3 billion for South Korea in 2022,smashing the previous record of $7 billion, set a year prior. Now,...
South Korean President Moon Jae-in (L) and President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol hold an official meeting at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, March 28, 2022. /CFP Nineteen days after the presidential election, Moon and Yoon held their first meeting. However, in previous years, t...
Voter casts a vote pick South Korea's new president in Seoul, South Korea on March 9, 2022. (Photo by James Lee/Xinhua) The election to select the next president will last from 6:00 a.m. local time (2100 GMT Tuesday) to 6:00 p.m. (0900 GMT Wednesday) at 14,464 polling station...