Tag: South Korea

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to students and audience after his lecture at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 4, 2014. With a single meeting Thursday, the leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the U.S. and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Xi rebukes Japan for brutality in China, Koreas

HyungJin Kim · July 4, 2014 11:46 am

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive to hold their press conference at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 3, 2014. With a single meeting Thursday, the leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the U.S. and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)

China leader snubs North Korea in visit to Seoul

Foster Klug · July 3, 2014 1:01 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping greets children during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 3, 2014. Xi's choice to meet with South Korean President Park Geun-hye over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un upends the practice since Beijing and Seoul forged diplomatic ties in 1992 of Chinese presidents choosing to make Pyongyang their first official destination on the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-ji, Pool)

China, South Korea agree to boost economic ties

Youkyung Lee · July 3, 2014 11:23 am

North Korean ship symbolizes hopes for Japan ties

Eric Talmadge · July 3, 2014 4:44 am

People watch a TV news program showing a file footage of a missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. North Korea on Wednesday fired two short-range projectiles into waters off its east coast, South Korean officials said, on the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping's talks in Seoul expected to focus on the North's nuclear weapons program.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

N. Korea fires projectiles before Xi’s Seoul visit

HyungJin Kim · July 2, 2014 4:26 am

People watch a TV news program showing the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 29, 2014. North Korea fired two short-range missiles into its eastern waters Sunday, a South Korean official said, an apparent test fire that comes just days after the country tested what it called new precision-guided missiles. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

National Security

N. Korea wants cancellation of S. Korea-US drills

HyungJin Kim · June 30, 2014 5:25 am

People watch a TV news program showing the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 29, 2014. North Korea fired two short-range missiles into its eastern waters Sunday, a South Korean official said, an apparent test fire that comes just days after the country tested what it called new precision-guided missiles. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Seoul: North Korea fires more short-range missiles

JungYoon Choi · June 29, 2014 5:26 am

A man watches a TV news program showing the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, June 26, 2014. North Korea fired three short-range projectiles Thursday into the waters off its east coast, a South Korean defense official said. The move was most likely a routine test-firing, but the official said it could also be meant to stoke tensions with Seoul. The writing on tje screen reads "The missiles were launched to alert and express its internal solidarity." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea tests new precision-guided missiles

HyungJin Kim · June 27, 2014 4:32 am

In this Wednesday, June 25, 2014, South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won arrives to attend a ceremony to mark the 64rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War in Seoul, South Korea. South Koreaâs president Park Geun-hye has decided to retain the current prime minister after her two consecutive choices for the job voluntarily abandoned nominations over past controversial behaviors on Thursday, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

S. Korea’s No. 2 to stay on after others pull out

HyungJin Kim · June 26, 2014 6:22 am

U.S. veteran Fred R. Liberhan from Brooklyn, N.Y., left, shakes hands with South Korean war veteran Lee Gang-sung during a ceremony to mark the 64th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. The three year Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, when Soviet tank-led North Koreans invaded South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Rival nations mark 64th anniversary of Korean War

Washington Examiner · June 25, 2014 1:10 pm

Newly-nominated South Korean Prime Minister Moon Chang-keuk bows to the nation during a news conference about his resignation at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Moon has withdrawn from consideration following mounting criticism over his alleged pro-Japanese remarks in the past.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

S. Korea’s prime minister-nominee withdraws

HyungJin Kim · June 24, 2014 2:45 am

A wounded South Korean soldier who killed five comrades in a shooting incident on a stretcher is carried from an ambulance upon arrival at a hospital in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, June 23, 2014. The South Korean army captured the soldier Monday who it says killed five comrades and then fled into the forest where he holed up with a rifle for two days before shooting himself as pursuers closed in. The massive manhunt ended when the 22-year-old sergeant, surnamed Yim, shot himself in the upper left chest as his father and brother approached, pleading with him to surrender, a Defense Ministry official said. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Sang-hack) KOREA OUT

South Korea captures soldier accused of killing 5

HyungJin Kim · June 23, 2014 10:33 am