South Korean President Park Geun-hye will convene an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s surprising announcement of a successful hydrogen bomb test.
South Korea and the United States plan to maintain a close cooperation after the fourth nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
In August 1910, the Empire of Japan formally annexed what had once been the sovereign nation of Korea. It is only now, over a century later, that Japan and Korea have formally reconciled one of the darkest legacies of that era: the 1930s and '40s recruitment of Korean women and girls as sex slaves known as "comfort women."
South Korea and Japan reached a final, irreversible agreement on Japan's wartime sex slavery of Korean women, but complaints remained as Seoul failed to extract Tokyo's acknowledgement of "legal" responsibility for the war crime.
Senior diplomats of South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Sunday to discuss Japan's wartime sex slavery of Korean women, a long-running issue which has prevented the bilateral ties from improving.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) walked a tightrope from the beginning of this year, although signs of thawing in inter-Korean relations emerged toward the year-end.
A South Korean court on Thursday acquitted a Japanese journalist of a criminal charge of defaming President Park Geun-hye.
North Korea has warned the United States of "unimaginable consequences" from its "hostile" policy towards the nuclear armed state, urging Washington to accept its long-standing demand for a peace treaty.
South Korea's government said Thursday that the U.S. Federal Reserve's first rate hike in almost a decade would have only a limited impact on the South Korean economy.
Prime Minister of South Korea Hwang Kyo-ahn is paying an official visit to Laos from Sunday to Tuesday, agreeing on a framework to continue assisting Laos in socio-economic development.
South Korea's Unification Ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs said Monday that it is anticipating the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s positive response to its expected dialogue offer, though it has no detailed plan yet for such dialogue proposal.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) resumed their vice ministers' talks on Saturday, the second day of such meeting that kicked off on Friday morning.
South Korea and Japan will hold a director general-level meeting next week in Tokyo to discuss issues on Japan's sex enslavement of Korean women during World War II, Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday began a vice ministerial-level meeting in the DPRK's border city of Kaesong.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to hold a vice ministerial-level meeting next month in the DPRK's border city of Kaesong, Seoul's unification ministry said on Friday.
South Korea's military on Monday staged its maritime firing exercises in northwestern islands near the sea boundary with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Seoul's defense ministry said.
South Korean victims of Japan's forced labor during World War II on Tuesday held a rally in central Seoul, calling for the rapid opening of the trial against Japan's "war criminal" companies.
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