South Korea and the U.S. are “on the best of terms” regarding a shared belief to remain firm against North Korea’s nuclear activities and activate their free trade deal at the earliest possible date, Seoul’s ambassador to Washington said Thursday. “We have been together on maintaining international sanctions against North Korea, while also keeping open chances of dialogue,” Amb. Han Duck-soo sai...

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday urged chief envoys to foreign countries to keep pace with the rapid changes in the world. "You should redouble efforts to catch up with the ever-changing world," Lee told a group of South Korean envoys to overseas countries. "I want you to work more actively. Being bound to instructions will not promise any progress," he said. A total of 115 amba...

South Korea is advising its people in Libya to leave the unrest-hit country, officials said Tuesday, as anti-government protests escalated across the African nation with rioters attacking a string of Korean-run construction sites. Concern about the safety of about 1,400 South Koreans staying in Libya, most of them construction firm workers, has spiked after a series of South Korean-run construct...

The Foreign Ministry issued an alert against traveling to all regions of Libya on Tuesday, strengthening its previous warning as anti-government protests have been spreading across the northern African state and rioters breaking into Korean construction sites. Under the second-highest travel alert, all South Korean nationals are advised to leave the state or defer nonessential trips, the ministr...

South Korean spy agency denies role Indonesia has officially asked South Korea to verify Seoul spy agency’s alleged trespassing into a hotel room of its envoys for intelligence gathering purposes, the Foreign Ministry here said Monday. Local media reports revealed Monday that three agents belonging to Seoul’s National Intelligence Service had been caught after entering a downtown hotel room to ...