Tag: South Korea

In this June 5, 2014 file photo, Park Won-soon, candidate for Seoul city mayor of the main opposition party New Politics Alliance for Democracy celebrates his victory in the Seoul mayoral election at his office in Seoul, South Korea. Police say on Thursday, July 9, 2020, the mayor of South Korean capital Seoul has been reported missing and search operations are underway.

‘Sorry to all people’: Authorities reveal note Seoul mayor wrote before his mysterious death

Zach Halaschak · July 10, 2020 6:32 pm

In this June 5, 2014 file photo, Park Won-soon, candidate for Seoul city mayor of the main opposition party New Politics Alliance for Democracy celebrates his victory in the Seoul mayoral election at his office in Seoul, South Korea. Police say on Thursday, July 9, 2020, the mayor of South Korean capital Seoul has been reported missing and search operations are underway.

Body of missing Seoul mayor discovered after massive search

Zach Halaschak · July 9, 2020 4:39 pm

In this June 5, 2014 file photo, Park Won-soon, candidate for Seoul city mayor of the main opposition party New Politics Alliance for Democracy celebrates his victory in the Seoul mayoral election at his office in Seoul, South Korea. Police say on Thursday, July 9, 2020, the mayor of South Korean capital Seoul has been reported missing and search operations are underway.

Search underway for Seoul mayor who left ‘will-like’ message to daughter before disappearing

Zach Halaschak · July 9, 2020 2:09 pm

North Korea says it must ‘counter nuclear with nuclear’ regarding US

Zach Halaschak · June 25, 2020 7:01 pm

North Korea backs away from military action plans against South Korea

Zach Halaschak · June 24, 2020 4:58 pm

in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, ahead of Monday's Nuclear Security Summit.

North Korea says it will send ‘leaflets of punishment’ across the border into South Korea as tensions remain

Zach Halaschak · June 20, 2020 5:14 pm

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Trump’s North Korea gambit flounders

Jamie McIntyre · June 19, 2020 3:00 am

—œI believe that the foundation for anything that comes next is what we’re doing right now,—? Army Gen. Vincent Brooks said. (AP Photo/Kim Kyung-hoon, Pool, File)

National Security

Former US Forces Korea commander: North Korea needs to be ‘agitated’ right now

Abraham Mahshie · June 17, 2020 5:02 pm

Smoke raising in the North Korean border town of Kaesong is seen from Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just inside its border in an act Tuesday that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy with the United States.

National Security

North Korea rejects South Korean offer to send envoys, further escalating tensions

Zach Halaschak · June 17, 2020 12:16 am

In this June 14, 2020 photo, U.S. flag flutters next to a giant Black Lives Matter banner at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.

US Embassy removes Black Lives Matter banner it hung amid George Floyd protests

Zach Halaschak · June 16, 2020 7:36 pm

Smoke raising in the North Korean border town of Kaesong is seen from Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just inside its border in an act Tuesday that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy with the United States.

National Security

North Korea bombs inter-Korean liasion office near southern border

Mike Brest · June 16, 2020 11:46 am

‘Front line into a fortress’: North Korean military threatens to move into demilitarized zone

Zach Halaschak · June 15, 2020 9:53 pm