Authorities in South Korea are continuing to try to arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, following his failed declaration of martial law over a month ago. As the country continues to be mired in political crisis, analyst are studying the health of the country’s democracy. And as our correspondent in Seoul tells us,
To say that President-elect Donald Trump has a lot of plans for his second term would be a gross understatement. He has vowed to implement the largest deportation operation in American history, secure the U.S.-Mexico border and negotiate a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia. Yet for Trump, all of these items may be minor
North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which “will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region”. The launch on Monday – Pyongyang’s first in two months – came as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Seoul for talks with some of South Korea’s
Russia is planning to share advanced satellite technology with North Korea, according to a warning from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “The DPRK is already receiving Russian military equipment and training. Now, we have reason to believe that Moscow intends to share advanced space and satellite technology with Pyongyang,” Blinken said while in Seoul, using
North Korea test fired a ballistic missile for the first time since President-elect Trump secured re-election on Monday. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s regime last launched a missile test on Nov. 5 as Americans were headed to the polls. Monday’s test is another sign that Kim apparently has no plans to develop a closer
Last Updated:January 06, 2025, 13:36 IST US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on a visit to Seoul, said a North Korean intermediate-range ballistic missile test was carried out on Monday. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently on a visit to South Korea. (Reuters) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a
Last Updated:January 06, 2025, 11:43 IST India World South Korea will send one of the retrieved black boxes of the crashed Jeju Air flight, in which 179 of 181 people onboard were killed, to the United States for analysis.“The damaged flight data recorder has been deemed unrecoverable for data extraction domestically. It was agreed today
A Jeju Air crash in South Korea last week, the deadliest plane accident in years, has stunned the global aviation industry. The country is regarded as a model for how to turn poor air safety practices into some of the world’s best. Three decades ago, South Korea had a dismal record of air safety. Its
Last Updated:January 02, 2025, 08:30 IST South Korean and US investigators, including from Boeing, have been combing the crash site in southwestern Muan since the disaster to establish a cause, with both black boxes found and decoding work ongoing Video footages show the plane touching down without using its wheels or any other landing gear.
Last Updated:January 03, 2025, 21:31 IST The fire department deployed 82 vehicles and equipment south of Seoul to bring the blaze under control Firefighters and a police officer stand in front of a commercial building that was damaged by a fire that broke out at the Bundang district in Seongnam on January 3, 2025. (AFP