South Korean President Park Geun-hye's former chief of staff bore the brunt of criticism from lawmakers at the second round of parliamentary hearings Wednesday on a corruption case which threatens to end her presidency.
The figure-skating icon was supposedly blacklisted for not taking part in a bizarre calisthenics event, while swimmer Park Tae-hwan says he was blackmailed ahead of Rio Olympics
S. Korean figure skating icon shrugs off rumors about being blacklistedSouth Korean figure skating icon Kim Yu-na on Wednesday shrugged off rumors that she has been blacklisted by the country's top government officials for her actions towards President Park Geun-hye.
North Korean people celebrated Mother's Day, designated in 2012 following a launch of the Kim Jong Un-led government, on Nov. 16, 2016.
DPRK leader Kim Jong-un has inspected an artillery unit stationed on an island bordering South Korea and ordered a firing drill on the spot, the North's state-run newswire reported Friday.
Jim Yong Kim was appointed for another five-year term as World Bank president, maintaining continuity at the development bank amid a growing debate about how fairly globalization’s benefits are being shared.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has decided to rename its Youth League as the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League, the official KCNA news agency reported Monday.
A major South Korean opposition lawmaker said it is possible to impeach President Park Geun-hye over her turning a blind eye to growing public opposition over the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) on the country's soil.
Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), presided over a meeting on Aug. 2-3 for exemplary commanding officers and servicemen in a mass movement in the army, stressing the ruling party's leadership over the military.
Former DPRK leader Kim Jong-il's fourth wife Kim Ok was purged and sent to a prison camp less than a year after her stepson Kim Jong-un took power, Radio Free Asia reported Tuesday.
DPRK, one of the last bastions of free, unhindered smoking, a country where just about every adult male can and does light up almost anywhere he pleases and where leader Kim Jong-un is hardly ever seen without a lit cigarette in his hand, is now officially trying to get its people to kick the habit.
According to Xinhua News Agency,the U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and other top officials over alleged human rights abuses.
After South Korea's spy agency briefed politicians about DPRK leader Kim Jong-un's rapid weight gain, prompting speculation he suffered from paranoia-induced insomnia, the BBC's Stephen Evans reflects on the value of such observations.
The DPRK's regime is making maximum propaganda capital out of a bland message from Chinese President Xi Jinping to suggest its international isolation is less than total.
Hoping to show the world his country is doing just fine despite sanctions and outside pressure over its nuclear weapons programme, DPRK leader Kim Jong-un has put his soldier-builders to work on yet another major project – a series of apartments and high-rises that are once again changing the Pyongyang skyline.
A DPRK’s anti-smoking campaign has apparently failed to persuade young leader Kim Jong-un to quit, despite his late father’s warning that “a cigarette is like a gun aiming at your heart”.
DPRK's leader Kim Jong-un's aunt has come out of hiding in the U.S. to speak about her famous nephew for the first time.
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