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North Korea responded to an unusually harsh verbal attack by South Korea’s president against the North’s leader and its recent nuclear test and rocket launch with a characteristically colorful invective of its own Saturday, calling her policy traitorous and adding that Washington’s newly enacted sanctions are “laughable.”
Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement on the “comfort women” issue that has made a lot of people uncomfortable.
Thousands of South Koreans, many wearing masks, marched in Seoul on Saturday against conservative President Park Geun-hye, who had compared masked protesters to terrorists after clashes with police broke out at a rally last month.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday as they clashed with anti-government demonstrators who marched through Seoul in the largest protest in South Korea’s capital in more than seven years, leaving a protester critically injured.
The United States is ready to negotiate with longtime adversary North Korea as it has with Iran, but Pyongyang has to be serious about abandoning nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama said Friday.
After an avalanche of data breaches, South Korea’s national identity card system has been raided so thoroughly by thieves that the government says it might have to issue new ID numbers to every citizen over 17 at a possible cost of billions of dollars.
South Korea’s president is cracking down on rumors in cyberspace in a campaign that threatens the popularity of Kakao Talk, the leading social media service in a country with ambitions to become a global technology leader.
One focus for the government of Park Geun-hye, the first female president of South Korea, is a ready-to-be-launched real estate policy.
South Korean presidential candidate, Park Geun-hye, apologized for her father’s repressive policies and human rights violations when he ruled the country until the late 1970s.
Park Geun Hye, the daughter of a former South Korean authoritarian president, was nominated as the ruling party’s presidential candidate on Monday, becoming the first woman in the country to be chosen to run for president.
