President Marcos has named veteran journalist Jaime Florcruz as the Philippine ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the People’s Republic of China with concurrent jurisdiction over the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Mongolia. Jaime Florcruz (Source: CNN Philippines)...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's former president Moon Jae-in is seeking to give up two dogs gifted to him by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing a lack of support from Seoul, his office said Monday. Photo from Moon Jae-Ian's Cheong Wa Dae official Twitter account The white Pungsan dogs, one...
SEOUL, South Korea -- The North Korean military said its response to US-South Korean war drills would be "resolute and overwhelming", state media reported Monday. The warning came after a spate of North Korean weapons tests last week -- including an intercontinental ballistic missile -- as the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired four ballistic missiles on Saturday, the South Korean military said, the latest in Pyongyang's testing blitz this week as Washington and Seoul concluded their biggest-ever air force drills. In this file photo taken on November 3, 2022, people watch a...
The Philippines has condemned the latest missile launches conducted by North Korea, which it said only further increased the tension in the Indo-Pacific region. In a statement on Friday, Nov. 4, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said North Korea's action only aggravated the tension in the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's military scrambled stealth jets on Friday after detecting the mobilisation of 180 North Korean warplanes, Seoul said as it conducted large-scale joint air drills with the United States which have infuriated Pyongyang. US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt attack...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea unsuccessfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during a new salvo of launches Thursday, the South Korean military said, with Washington urging all nations to enforce sanctions on Pyongyang. Television screens show a news report about the latest North...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired more than 10 missiles Wednesday, including one that landed close to South Korea's waters that President Yoon Suk-yeol said was "effectively a territorial invasion". People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- The world is holding its breath over the possibility that North Korea might undertake a nuclear bomb test, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday. "Everybody is holding its breath about this, because another nuclear test would...
TOKYO, Japan -- The United States, Japan and South Korea warned Wednesday that a North Korean nuclear test would warrant an "unprecedentedly strong response", vowing unity after a blitz of missile launches from the hermit state. Japan's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeo Mori (C), US Deputy...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent his "warmest congratulations" to Chinese President Xi Jinping on securing a third term as head of China's ruling Communist Party, state media reported Sunday. This undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Friday test-fired a short-range ballistic missile and flew nearly a dozen fighter jets close to the border with the South -- the latest in a series of military provocations that have sent tensions soaring on the Korean peninsula. Leader Kim Jong Un has overseen...
