SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean government on Wednesday slammed the controversial 2019 repatriation of two North Koreans, after releasing photos that appeared to show one of them resisting the handover. Then-president Moon Jae-in's administration had expelled the men after investigators said...
PYONGYANG, Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reported more than 73,780 new fevered cases and no deaths in the past 24 hours through 0900 GMT on Saturday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday. As of Saturday, the cumulative...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea launched eight ballistic missiles from multiple locations Sunday, South Korea's military said, a day after Seoul and Washington completed their first joint drills involving a US aircraft carrier in more than four years. People sit near a screen showing a news...
The Philippines has condemned the latest missile test by North Korea, saying it undermines peace and stability within the Korean Peninsula, the region, and even the world. DFA (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Philippines issued the statement on...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- China and Russia on Thursday vetoed a US-led bid at the United Nations to toughen sanctions on North Korea over its missile launches, laying bare divisions that Western envoys fear would be exploited by Pyongyang. The Security Council resolution put forward by the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- US President Joe Biden said Saturday that America had offered Covid-19 vaccines to Pyongyang but "got no response" despite a spiralling epidemic in North Korea, where nearly 2.5 million people have fallen sick with "fever". Biden, who is in Seoul on his first trip to Asia...
SEOUL, South Korea -- US President Joe Biden and South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol signalled Saturday an expanded military presence in response to the "threat" from North Korea, while also offering to help the isolated regime face a Covid-19 outbreak. After meeting in Seoul on Biden's first...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's Kim Jong Un criticised "irresponsible" officials over the country's pandemic response and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, state media said on Monday, as Seoul offered Covid-19 aid. More than a million people have been ill with what Pyongyang refers...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Sunday reported 15 additional deaths from "fever", days after officially confirming its first-ever Covid-19 cases and ordering nationwide lockdowns. The outbreak, which leader Kim Jong Un has said is causing "great upheaval", leaves a country with one of the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea announced 21 new "fever" deaths Saturday and said more than half a million people had been sickened nationwide, two days after confirming its first cases of Covid-19. Despite activating its "maximum emergency quarantine system" to slow the spread of disease through...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea confirmed its first Covid-19 death on Friday, saying fever was spreading "explosively" nationwide and tens of thousands of people were being isolated after falling sick. The insular country only reported its first Covid cases Thursday, saying it was moving into...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Friday that 187,000 people are being "isolated and treated" for fever, after the country reported its first Covid-19 cases and confirmed at least one death linked to the outbreak. "As of now up to 187,800 people are being isolated and treated," the official...
