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North Korea says Kim Jong Un supervised tests of rocket launchers targeting Seoul

Mar. 19, 2024 01:46 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers designed to target South Korea's capital as he vowed to boost his war deterrent in the face of deepening confrontations with rivals, state media...

South Korea will suspend licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punishment for doctors' walkouts

Mar. 18, 2024 23:23 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean authorities will suspend the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations, one of the doctors said Monday. The impending...

Ohtani and Yamamoto are unbelievable in any language. Japanese has several words for them

Mar. 18, 2024 14:16 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — If you're a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers' billion-dollar duo of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, you might want to learn a couple of Japanese adjectives. Try these as the Dodgers and Padres are in South Korea to open the MLB season. ...

Blinken tells democracy summit that technology must sustain democratic values

Mar. 18, 2024 10:15 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored the need to make sure that technologies sustain democratic values, telling a democracy summit on Monday that authoritarian regimes deploy them to undermine democracy and human rights. Blinken spoke at the...

South Korean defense chief says North Korea has supplied 7,000 containers of munitions to Russia

Mar. 18, 2024 06:09 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has shipped around 7,000 containers filled with munitions and other military equipment to Russia since last year to help support its war in Ukraine, South Korea’s defense minister said Monday. Shin Won-sik shared the assessment at a news...

North Korea resumes missile tests, raising tensions with its rivals after their military drills' end

Mar. 18, 2024 04:54 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days after the end of the South Korean-U.S. military drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. The launches — North...

South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the North’s east coast.

Mar. 17, 2024 18:55 PM EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the North’s east coast.

Ohtani may be South Korea's most-beloved Japanese athlete. His charm is winning over historic rivals

Mar. 17, 2024 11:51 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shohei Ohtani may be South Korea's most-beloved Japanese athlete, a testament to his charm in softening any lingering animosity between the two neighbors. Since his arrival in South Korea with his wife for the Major League Baseball opener on Wednesday...

North Korea's Kim test drives a new tank and orders troops to prepare for war

Mar. 14, 2024 13:28 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined troops training on a new tank model and drove one himself, state media reported Thursday, as his rivals South Korea and the U.S. wrapped up their annual military exercises. It’s the third time Kim was reported to...

South Korean held in Russia on espionage allegation is missionary helping the needy, his group says

Mar. 13, 2024 09:03 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean held in Russia on an espionage allegation is a missionary dispatched there to support the needy and spread the gospel, a South Korean Christian aid group said Wednesday, calling the spying suspicion “preposterous.” Russia’s state news...