North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stressed the need to bolster the country’s military power to “preemptively and thoroughly contain” nuclear threats from hostile forces, according to Pyongyang’s state media Saturday.He met with top military commanders wh…
Continue Reading1923 — The first Children’s Day is celebrated in Seoul. Bang Jung-hwan, a children’s author who was devoted to children’s issues, was the first person to come up with the idea of Children’s Day. The South Korean government later changed the date to Ma…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea’s incoming administration will strive to establish a system for the two Koreas and the United States to have dialogue anytime through a liaison office at the truce village of Panmunjom or Washington, D.C., the nominee to become Seoul’s top …
Continue ReadingThe ruling party-dominated National Assembly on Saturday passed one of two controversial bills on prosecution reform amid strong protest from the main opposition party, heralding bipartisan standoff down the road.The revision of the Prosecutors’ Office…
Continue ReadingThe ruling party-dominated National Assembly on Saturday passed one of two controversial bills on prosecution reform amid strong protest from the main opposition party, heralding bipartisan standoff down the road.The revision of the Prosecutors’ Office…
Continue ReadingA 70-something hunter in Seoul came under investigation by police for allegedly mistaking a taxi driver on a mountain roadside for a wild boar and killing the driver with a rifle, officials said Saturday.Police sought a formal arrest warrant for the su…
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