Tag: South Korea

Nurses wear masks as a precaution against the MERS virus as they attend an International Conference of Nurses in Seoul, South Korea. (Baek Seng-ryul/Yonhap via AP)

MERS spreads to Thailand

Robert King · June 19, 2015 3:48 pm

Workers wearing masks and goggles, spray disinfectant as a precaution against the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

No need for travel bans due to MERS: World Health Org.

Robert King · June 17, 2015 3:04 pm

President Obama signed off on the agreement last week after speaking to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who was supposed to visit this week but had to cancel. (Wikimedia Commons)

White House sends Congress South Korea nuke cooperation deal

Nicole Duran · June 16, 2015 5:24 pm

North Korean soldiers stand guard on the demarcation line of the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two halves of the Korean peninsula at Panmunjom, North Korea. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

North Korean soldier defects by walking across border to South Korea

Kelly Cohen · June 15, 2015 12:26 pm

South Korean President Park Geun-hyeÂ was supposed to visit President Obama in Washington next week. (AP Photo)

South Korea inks nuclear deal with U.S. but cancels trip

Susan Crabtree · June 12, 2015 1:23 pm

Passengers flying from Busan, South Korea, receive temperature checks for MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) as they arrive at Hong Kong Airport, Friday, June 5, 2015. The current frenzy in South Korea over MERS brings to mind the other menacing diseases to hit Asia over the last decade -- SARS, which killed hundreds, and bird flu. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

World health group to help South Korea contain disease

Robert King · June 5, 2015 9:55 pm

Suspect anthrax sent to 52 labs, 18 states; number likely to rise

National Security

Suspect anthrax sent to 52 labs, 18 states; number likely to rise

Tara Copp · June 4, 2015 8:31 pm

Dugway Proving Ground military base, about 85 miles southwest Salt Lake City, Utah. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Suspect anthrax samples turn up in Australia

Robert King · May 29, 2015 3:44 pm

(Photo Credit: CDC, via Wikimedia Commons)

National Security

Pentagon, CDC search for answers after anthrax foul-up

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 5:08 pm

The samples were supposed to have been inert for medical training but were discovered to potentially be live samples.Â

22 military personnel in South Korea possibly exposed to anthrax

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 2:54 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, right, hold a joint press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul, Korea, Monday, May 18, 2015. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

John Kerry: North Korea ‘not even close’ to rolling back nuclear program

Kelly Cohen · May 18, 2015 1:47 pm

A South Korean man watches a TV news program showing an image published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-oon)

National Security

North Korea says it successfully fired missile from submarine

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 2:57 pm