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April 12, 2019

Asian stocks mostly higher after mixed Wall Street day

Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday after a mixed Wall Street close on listless trading. Benchmarks in Tokyo, ...

April 05, 2019

S. Korea launches 5G smartphone networks ahead of schedule

South Korea's telecommunications carriers turned on super-fast 5G mobile internet networks abruptly ahead of schedule in an ...

April 03, 2019

SKorean ship detained for allegedly providing oil to NKorea

A South Korean ship is being held at a domestic port over suspicions that it illegally provided oil to heavily sanctioned ...

April 01, 2019

S. Korea starts search for war remains, separate from North

South Korea's military began searching for Korean War remains at the heavily armed inter-Korean border on Monday after North ...

March 28, 2019

A look at alleged raiders of North Korean Embassy in Madrid

The 10 people who allegedly raided the North Korean Embassy in Madrid last month belong to a mysterious dissident ...

March 26, 2019

Asian stocks rebound after slide on growth worries

Asian stock prices rebounded Tuesday after global markets slid on worries about U.S. and European economic growth.

March 08, 2019

US looks to get more cash from allies that host its troops

The Trump administration is eyeing a plan to seek more money from allied European and other nations where American troops are ...

March 07, 2019

North Korea said to be rebuilding structures at rocket site

North Korea is restoring facilities at a long-range rocket launch site that it dismantled last year as part of disarmament ...

March 05, 2019

Pelle scores 2 to help Shandong draw 2-2 at Gyeongnam

Italy international Graziano Pelle scored a pair of goals Tuesday to give Chinese club Shandong Luneng to a 2-2 draw at South ...

March 04, 2019

Seoul calls for three-way talks after Trump-Kim collapse

South Korea has proposed semiofficial three-way talks with the United States and North Korea as it struggles to put nuclear ...

March 01, 2019

Trump's cost complaint casts doubt on SKorea military drills

Even as he announced the failure of nuclear negotiations with North Korea, President Donald Trump complained that annual ...

February 28, 2019

Trump-Kim go one-on-one: Who will know what was really said?

Only four other ears on the planet heard what President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said to each other ...

February 25, 2019

Nightmare result of US-NKorea talks: Bad deal, little change

The nightmare scenario heading into the second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ...

February 21, 2019

Asian stocks change little ahead of more US-China talks

Asian stock markets were little-changed Thursday following a listless day on Wall Street ahead of U.S.-Chinese negotiations ...

February 20, 2019

Italy's checking if NKorean envoy's daughter was forced back

Italy is investigating if the daughter of a former North Korean diplomat posted to Italy had been forcibly returned to ...

February 11, 2019

South Korea picks Seoul for 2032 Olympic bid

South Korea has chosen its capital, Seoul, for its bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics, which it hopes to jointly host with ...

February 01, 2019

Former South Korean governor convicted of sexual abuse

A South Korean appeals court sentenced a former provincial governor to 3½ years in prison on Friday on charges of sexually ...

February 01, 2019

Woman enslaved by Japan's military mourned near protest site

The funeral procession of a woman sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers as a girl during WWII concluded Friday near the ...

January 30, 2019

SKoreans mourn death of wartime sex slave who fought Tokyo

A South Korean woman who was forced as a girl into a brothel and sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during World War ...