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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korea on Sunday fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since US President Joe Biden took office, possibly breaching a self-imposed suspension on the testing of longer-range weapons as it…

BOSTON: The presidency of South Korea’s Moon Jae-in will be bookended by the Winter Olympics – one defined by hope, the other despair. North Korea has confirmed it will not participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics because of the…

SEOUL: South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed on Monday to use his last months in office to press for a diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea, despite public silence from Pyongyang over his attempts for a declaration of peace between…

Issued on: 24/12/2021 - 04:24 South Korea's President Moon Jae-in granted a pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, who is in prison after being convicted of corruption, the…

SYDNEY: South Korea's president on Monday (Dec 13) ruled out joining a US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, citing the need to work with China. Visiting Canberra, Moon Jae-in said he was "not considering" snubbing…

One survey conducted by Seoul National University revealed that 79 per cent of the participants do not trust “other people” to behave according to government directives. This spirit of distrust was similarly captured by the…

<!-- -->Moon Jae-in held private talks with Pope Francis for about 25 minutes, the Vatican said.Vatican City: South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Pope Francis on Friday, giving him a cross made from barbed wire from the peninsula's…

VATICAN CITY: South Korean President Moon Jae-in gave Pope Francis a statue of a cross made with barbed wire from the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas and told him Friday that a papal visit to the North would help create "momentum…

LONDON: Pope Francis on Friday said in a message released ahead of the COP26 summit that leaders must respond "urgently" to the climate crisis. "The political decision makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow, are urgently summoned to…

PRESTON (UK): When the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, called for an end to the war on the Korea peninsula recently, the initial response was a rebuff from North Korea's vice foreign minister. This has been the standard response from…