China supports holding a trilateral summit with South Korea and Japan within this year, Beijing’s foreign ministry said Monday, raising prospects of the resumption of three-way summit diplomacy following a recent thaw in long-strained ties between Seo…
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(LEAD) N. Korea holds nuclear counterattack simulation drills; Kim urges perfect readiness: KCNA
North Korea said Monday it conducted drills simulating a tactical nuclear counterattack against its enemies over the weekend, as the United States and South Korea are staging their joint annual military exercise.The North’s leader Kim Jong-un “guided”…
Veteran defender confident S. Korea can end Asian title drought under Klinsmann
If South Korea are to end their long Asian men’s football title drought, center back Kim Young-gwon is confident the team’s new head coach is the one to make it happen.Kim reported to the first training camp under Jurgen Klinsmann on Monday. The Germa…
Unification minister to visit Japan this week to discuss N. Korea
South Korea’s top point man on North Korea will visit Japan this week to discuss Seoul-Tokyo cooperation on Pyongyang and other pending issues, his office said Monday.Unification Minister Kwon Young-se plans to leave for Tokyo on Wednesday for a four-…
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South Korea has expressed regret to Japan over a series of “distorted” reports on last week’s summit between President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and asked that such reports not be repeated, a presidential official said Monday.Japa…
S. Korean forward thrilled with chance to pick legend’s brains
As football coaches go, there may be few better for strikers to learn from than Jurgen Klinsmann, the new bench boss for the South Korean men’s national team.Klinsmann was one of the greatest players of his generation, a striker who led West Germany t…
(LEAD) Seoul shares fall amid global banking system instability
South Korean stocks ended lower Monday, led by big-cap tech losses, on mounting concerns over a global banking crisis despite the takeover of the troubled Credit Suisse. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar.The benchmark Korea Composite Sto…
S. Korea reports additional African swine fever case in one month
South Korea reported another African swine fever case after a one-month hiatus on Monday, and issued a standstill order on pig farms and related facilities in the country’s northern regions, the agriculture ministry said.The animal disease was found a…
Japan invites Yoon to upcoming G-7 summit: report
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida invited South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to a G-7 summit to be held in Hiroshima in May, a news report said Monday.According to Japan’s Kyodo News Agency, Kishida told reporters he invited leaders of South Kor…
Security Council Members, Urging Unity for Addressing Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s New Missile Launch, Argue over How to Defuse Regional Tensions
While urging one another to end their five-year impasse and unite to counter the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s repeated launchings of ballistic missiles, Security Council members argued over the best approach to accomplish that, as a senior …