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North Korea blamed Washington and its allies for prolonging the Ukrainian war, in a statement by an unnamed foreign ministry spokesperson.

WORLD

Dec 19, 2024

North Korean troops suffer 100 deaths as they struggle in drone warfare, South Korea says

Neither North Korea nor Russia have officially acknowledged the troop deployment or the weapons supply.

Patients wait for medical treatment in Incheon, South Korea, on April 23.

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Sep 3, 2024

South Korea denies hospital emergency rooms collapsing as army doctors deployed

The government will send 15 military doctors to hard-hit emergency rooms and rotate 235 military and community doctors into troubled hospitals starting Sept. 9.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at a recent meeting at the Blue House in Seoul on May 27

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Jul 8, 2024

South Korea's Yoon to discuss Pyongyang's 'distinct threat' to Europe at NATO meet

Yoon, who became the first South Korean leader to attend a NATO summit in 2022, was to take part in his third such meeting later this week.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 10th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang in this photo released on Tuesday.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jul 2, 2024

North Korea says it tested ballistic missile capable of carrying super-large warhead

The country will conduct another launch of the same type of missile in July to test the "explosion power" of the super-large warhead, according to its state news agency.

South Korea's government and international rights organizations have said defectors who are deported back to the North face harsh punishment.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Oct 13, 2023

South Korea protests to China over suspected North Korea repatriations

South Korea had been unable to determine the number of people involved and whether there were defectors among them.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Nov 29, 2022

China can and should deter North Korea from nuclear aims, says South Korea's Yoon

Not doing do so would lead to an influx of military assets to the region, Yoon said, including higher defense spending in Japan and more deployments of American warplanes and ships.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 30, 2021

South Korea presidential candidate pushes for nuclear-powered submarines

Lee Jae-myung also pledged to put aside 'strategic ambiguity' in the face of an intensifying Sino-U.S. rivalry, vowing pragmatic diplomacy instead.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Dec 6, 2016

U.N. chief Ban may be unwitting loser in South Korean presidential scandal

Besides South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the biggest casualty of the country's mushrooming political corruption scandal may be the presidential aspirations of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS

Nov 23, 2016

As Park fights for survival, power vacuum weighs on South Korea

As the chorus grows louder for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to resign over a corruption scandal, a power vacuum is weighing on her administration, leaving her political survival in doubt and the vulnerable economy exposed to political shocks.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS

Apr 16, 2016

North Korea likelier to try another nuclear test following failed missile launch, experts say

The likelihood of North Korea conducting a fifth nuclear test, possibly within weeks, has increased because of its failed missile launch on Friday, which was an embarrassing setback for leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean officials and international experts said.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS

Apr 13, 2016

North Korea lifts veil on arms program to impress enemies and its own people

Ahead of a rare congress of the ruling party next month, secretive North Korea is revealing details of its weapons development program for the first time, showcasing its push to develop long-range nuclear missiles despite international sanctions.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

Mar 31, 2016

North Korea in 'top-speed dash' for May congress, Kim's nuclear policy

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is poised to declare his signature ruling policy during a rare party congress in May and, despite tough new U.N. sanctions, it is likely to be the twin pursuit of nuclear prowess and economic development.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Aug 26, 2015

Korean peace meeting was a summit by proxy

The leaders of North and South Korea have not met for the last eight years, but the marathon 44-hour talks that brought the bitter rivals back from the brink of conflict was effectively a summit by proxy.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

May 31, 2015

Drought-hit North Korea seen as staving off food crisis

North Korea has updated farming methods and switched crops that could help soften the blow of drought and avert a disastrous food shortage, an aid worker and an analyst said Sunday, after a U.N. official warned of another "huge food deficit."

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS

May 22, 2014

North Korean nuclear missiles 'imminent,' some experts fear

North Korea, which this month threatened to carry out a fourth nuclear test, may be closer than previously thought to mounting a nuclear warhead on a missile, some experts say, making a mockery of years of U.N. sanctions aimed at curbing its efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Yasuyuki Yoshida stirs a brew in a fermentation tank at his brewery in Hakusan.

The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition

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