News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 year ago
North Korea continued Sunday to lash out at the new conservative government in Seoul, threatening to reduce the South to “ashes” if the South Korean government made the “slightest move” to attack. The warning, one of the harshest in years,...
News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
South Korea aims to attract more than US$12 billion (euro7.6 billion) in foreign direct investment this year, up from US$10.51 billion (euro6.7 billion) pledged in 2007, Minister of Knowledge Economy Lee Youn-ho said Monday. Related Topic Get...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 year ago
North Korean jet fighters have sortied close South Korea's airspace at least 10 times since conservative president Lee Myung-bak took office last month, prompting Seoul to scramble its own planes in response, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported on...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
Tibetan protesters storm gate of China's visa office Tibetan exiles and Buddhist monks tried to break down the gate of the Chinese embassy visa office in Kathmandu yesterday but were beaten back by police. At least 130 were arrested and some...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
In one of its harshest warnings in years, amid rapidly chilling relations on the divided Korean Peninsula, North Korea warned Sunday that it may make a "pre-emptive" military strike that would reduce South Korea to "ashes." The statement, made by an..
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
March 30 (UPI) -- North Korean officials called Seoul's hints of a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear facilities one the greatest challenges to inter-Korean dialogue...Kim Tae-young, said it was "important" to find North Korean "nuclear facilities...