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FM vows all-out efforts to resume dialogue with NK

Foreign affairsJul 2, 2020

Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Thursday said the government is making an all-out effort to resume stalled dialogues with North Korea, amid recent heightened tensions between the two Koreas. “For...
Moon’s adviser calls for inter-Korean summit for breakthrough

North KoreaJul 1, 2020

Amid heightened uncertainties over inter-Korean relations, a special adviser to President Moon Jae-in called for the leaders of the two Koreas to meet in order to break the deadlock and move forward ...
Unification Ministry reconsiders timing of $10m aid to NK

North KoreaJun 30, 2020

The Unification Ministry on Tuesday said it was reconsidering the timing of a $10 million aid package to North Korea via the World Food Program, amid heightened tensions between the two Koreas. T...
North Korea registers ‘Masikryong Hotel’ trademark with UN

North KoreaJun 30, 2020

North Korea has registered the trademark for “Masikryong Hotel” inside a luxury ski resort with a UN agency on intellectual property rights, as the reclusive regime seeks to develop its nascent touri...
Ministry takes final step to delist defector NGOs over leaflets

North KoreaJun 29, 2020

The Unification Ministry on Monday held a hearing on two North Korean defector-led groups, as the final step before revoking their permits for floating anti-North Korea propaganda materials across th...
Police raid offices of defector groups over anti-NK leaflets

North KoreaJun 26, 2020

The police on Friday raided the two defector-run organizations at the center of anti-Pyongyang leaflet campaigns here on allegations that they violated laws governing inter-Korean exchanges. Inve...
Five South Korean sailors abducted in waters off Benin

Foreign affairsJun 25, 2020

Five South Korean sailors and a Ghanaian have been kidnapped by unidentified armed groups in waters off Benin in West Africa, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Unknown gunmen, believed to be pirat...
[Korean War Anniversary] The path two Koreas have taken since war

North KoreaJun 25, 2020

Hopes were running high ahead of the second US-North Korea summit in February 2019. Peace on the Korean Peninsula, and its complete denuclearization, felt imminent. But the Hanoi summit fell through ...
Defying government ban, defectors group launches anti-NK leaflets

North KoreaJun 23, 2020

A group of North Korean defectors claimed Tuesday it had sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border, continuing an activity that has enraged the North regime, which cited it as the reason it wrec...
NK reinstalls propaganda loudspeakers, gets ready to drop 12 million anti-Seoul leaflets

North KoreaJun 22, 2020

North Korea is reinstalling propaganda loudspeakers along the inter-Korean border and preparing to drop 12 million anti-Seoul leaflets here, amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula since the...
Leafleting: decisive propaganda or empty provocation?

North KoreaJun 21, 2020

The defector activist Park, however, refuted such concerns, saying about 70 to 80 percent of leaflets end up in North Korea. And when the materials are reported to land in the South, Park’s group col...
[Herald Interview] Unfazed by warnings, defector vows to continue leaflet campaign

North KoreaJun 18, 2020

The exact date of the next balloon launch is undecided, he said. “It will depend on the weather and when the direction of the wind is favorable.” The balloons will carry propaganda leaflets, alon...
[Newsmaker] ‘Our worst fear has turned into reality’

North KoreaJun 17, 2020

Tuesday was a devastating day for a group of South Korean businessmen who once ran factories inside the Kaesong industrial park, a now-shuttered joint manufacturing zone in North Korea’s border city....
Seoul slams Tokyo over ‘distortion’ of forced labor history at exhibition

Foreign affairsJun 15, 2020

South Korea on Monday expressed deep regret over Tokyo’s neglect of its pledge to commemorate victims of wartime forced labor at a newly opened facility celebrating its industrial revolution, and con...
[News Analysis] 20 years after historic peace summit, inter-Korean relations still strained

North KoreaJun 14, 2020

In June 2000, Kim Dae-jung, then the South Korean president, flew to Pyongyang and was greeted by a broadly smiling Kim Jong-il, then leader of North Korea. The two clutched each other’s hands at the...