By Byun Duk-kun
WASHINGTON, March 3 (Yonhap) -- The United States will empower its diplomats to reduce threats posed by North Korea, President Joe Biden said in his interim national security strate...
06:30 Mar. 04
By Byun Duk-kun
WASHINGTON, March 3 (Yonhap) -- The United States has to use every tool available, including pressure, to prevent North Korea from advancing its nuclear capability, a top State Depa...
03:29 Mar. 04
By Byun Duk-kun
WASHINGTON, March 3 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out eight priorities for American diplomacy on Wednesday but again skirted the issue of how to deal with ...
02:45 Mar. 04
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- A pro-North Korea paper in Japan on Wednesday slammed a U.S. professor over his controversial claim that victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery were voluntary prostitu...
16:03 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- Unification Minister Lee In-young did not mean that global sanctions are the sole reason for causing a humanitarian crisis in North Korea when he recently stressed the ne...
14:32 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea lost forest area the size of 330,000 soccer pitches in nearly two decades, data showed Wednesday, further accelerating the country's deforestation problem.
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10:17 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is expected to be supplied with around 1.7 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 by May through a global vaccine distribution program.
According to a ...
09:09 Mar. 03
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Yonhap) -- Recent satellite images show that North Korea may haven taken steps to hide a facility that the U.S. believes is used to store nuclear weapons, CNN reported Tuesday....
09:05 Mar. 03
(ATTN: UPDATES with additional details, more background in paras 16-22)
By Byun Duk-kun
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Yonhap) -- The United States and its allies must maintain maximum pressure on North Kore...
04:42 Mar. 03
By Byun Duk-kun
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Yonhap) -- The United States and its allies must maintain maximum pressure on North Korea to make the country realize that it is safer without nuclear weapons t...
03:02 Mar. 03
By Byun Duk-kun
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Yonhap) -- A group of U.S. lawmakers has submitted a bill urging the U.S. government to work toward family reunions of Korean-Americans with their loved ones in...
02:04 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's official newspaper on Tuesday stressed the importance of planting trees to make the country less vulnerable to natural disasters as Pyongyang marked its arb...
10:36 Mar. 02
By Koh Byung-joon
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean propaganda outlet Tuesday strongly criticized a U.S. professor over his controversial claim that victims of Japan's wartime sexual slaver...
09:28 Mar. 02
By Song Sang-ho
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has been showing signs of operating a thermal plant used to provide heat to a nuclear fuel rod reprocessing facility, the chief of the U.N. nu...
08:58 Mar. 02
SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- The following is an unofficial translation of President Moon Jae-in's speech delivered on Monday to commemorate the 102nd anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement...
12:02 Mar. 01
(ATTN: CHANGES quotes with Cheong Wa Dae's translation version; UPDATES with more remarks, background info, other details; ADDS photo, byline)
By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- President M...
11:54 Mar. 01
SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in stated Monday that South Korea won't cease its push for stronger cooperation with Japan, saying it would also be helpful to the trilateral partnersh...
10:54 Mar. 01
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. State Department assessed that North Korea's stringent measures against COVID-19 have significantly impeded efforts of outside organizations to deliver humanitar...
13:41 Feb. 28
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has staged worker pep rallies en masse across the country to boost morale in achieving a new five-year state economic development put forward by leader Kim Jo...
10:08 Feb. 28