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Moon stresses China's role in Korea peace process during talks with its foreign minister

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday the Korea peace process has reached a very important stage and asked China to continue its support for progress in efforts for the complete denucleari...

Dec 5, 2019
Foreign Affairs
[News analysis] North Korea has not given up hope for nuclear talks with US yet

Tensions between the US and North Korea have heightened as the two sides exchanged threats and bellicose rhetoric of possible military actions if necessary, amid their stalled nuclear talks. But the...

Dec 5, 2019
North Korea
Edited (for Fri) Number of people paying into state pension falls 150,000 in 2019

Number of people paying into state pension falls 150,000 in 2019 [News Focus] By Kim Yon-se SEJONG -- South Koreans born in 1969 or later cannot enjoy the old-age annuity benefits, paid by the nat...

Dec 5, 2019
Social affairs
Chinese FM Wang Yi hurls thinly veiled criticism at US, defends China's rise

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday made a thinly veiled criticism of the United States over its "Cold War mindset" and "hegemonic acts" while defending China's rise as a "historical inevita...

Dec 5, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Ex-ruling party leader Choo tapped as justice minister

Lawmaker picked to reform prosecution amid power abuse scandal

Dec 5, 2019
Politics
Ruling party accuses prosecution of ‘ulterior motives’ in Blue House probes

The Democratic Party went on the offensive against the prosecution Thursday, characterizing the investigations into alleged abuse of power by the Blue House as an attempt to resist prosecutorial refo...

Dec 5, 2019
Politics
[Newsmaker] 2 military intelligence officers investigated for alleged rape of N. Korean defector

Two Defense Intelligence Command officers are being investigated by the military prosecution for allegedly raping a North Korean defector multiple times, the Defense Ministry confirmed Thursday. The...

Dec 5, 2019
Defense
S. Korea scraps conscription privilege for men from multicultural families

The government has abolished a regulation allowing men of multicultural backgrounds to serve their mandatory military service in the same unit with friends or relatives, citing low demand and its dis...

Dec 5, 2019
Defense
[Newsmaker] Actor Kang Ji-hwan gets suspended prison sentence in rape case

Actor Kang Ji-hwan, who was indicted in July on charges of raping a woman and molesting another at his home, was given a suspended prison sentence by a local court on Thursday. The Seongnam branch o...

Dec 5, 2019
Social affairs
Ruling party lawmaker nominated as new justice minister

Choo Mi-ae, a five-term ruling party lawmaker, has been nominated for the position of justice minister, Cheong Wa Dae announced Thursday amid keen attention to her role in the South Korean government...

Dec 5, 2019
Politics
S. Korea, US end 4th round of talks on defense cost-sharing

WASHINGTON/SEOUL -- South Korea and the United States ended another round of talks Wednesday (US time) on sharing the costs for the upkeep of American troops in the South, with the two sides apart on...

Dec 5, 2019
Foreign Affairs
S. Korea, Japan to hold talks over monthslong trade row

South Korea said Thursday it will hold talks with Japan in Tokyo later this month in the latest attempt to settle their monthslong trade row stemming from shared history. The two countries will hold...

Dec 5, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Europeans again condemn North Korea's missile launches

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Half a dozen European countries on Wednesday again condemned North Korea's 13 "provocative" ballistic missile launches since May, saying they violate UN Security Council resolu...

Dec 5, 2019
North Korea
North Korea warns US against meeting on its human rights

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea warned Wednesday that tensions on the Korean peninsula will increase and the situation "take a turn for the worse again" if the United States goes ahead with a UN S...

Dec 5, 2019
North Korea
US JCS official unaware of discussion of troop drawdown in S. Korea

WASHINGTON -- A US Joint Chiefs of Staff official said Wednesday that he is not aware of any discussion inside the Pentagon of a possible drawdown of American troops in South Korea. Speculation of a...

Dec 5, 2019
Defense

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