... crash in Reno as investigators determined that several spectators were killed on impact as the 1940s-model plane appeared to lose a piece of its tail before slamming like a missile into a crowded tar...from being far more deadly by avoiding the grandstand section with a last-minute climb, although it's impossible at this point to know his thinking as he was confronted with the disaster and had just ...

South Korea's government said Sunday that it plans to put warning labels on highly caffeinated beverages such as Coca-Cola and so-called energy drinks that may be harmful to pregnant women and children. The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it has issued administrative notices for the mandatory measures that will require producers to label such drinks prominently. Under the revision, all ...

...hed an audit into the state power monopoly and distributor to find out the exact cause of this week's massive blackouts that left millions of homes without electricity for hours, officials said Saturd...said. President Lee Myung-bak harshly rebuked electricity officials Friday during a visit to KEPCO's head office in southern Seoul. Opposition parties demanded that Knowledge Economy Minister Choi J...

...ntain resort in the North, a pro-North Korean newspaper said. Kim Kwang-yun, director of the North's Mount Kumgang International Tourism Leadership Bureau, said the talks could be held anytime if the...eported Friday. Kim made the comment to foreign journalists who visited Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast in a trial run of a cruise from its northeastern port city of Rajin, according to the n...

North Korea's chief nuclear envoy arrived in China on Saturday for talks with his South Korean and Chinese counterparts on how to restart long-stalled negotiations on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs. Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho headed to Beijing's downtown area without making any comment to reporters upon arriving at an airport earlier in the day. Ri is scheduled to hold talks ...

...appealed the recent decision by a Busan appeals court. The Busan High Court upheld the lower court's life imprisonment for Arai earlier this month after convicting him of hijacking a South Korean shi...d hear the case. The five pirates were captured during a Jan. 21 commando operation by South Korea's Navy to rescue the South Korean chemical carrier, the Samho Jewelry, in the Arabian Sea. Eight oth...

...ion-ridden mutual savings bank. “He is likely to be questioned next week,” an official at the Central Investigation Unit at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office said Friday. Kim, President Lee Myung-bak’s spokesperson for three months, tendered his resignation late Thursday after he received the subpoena. Lee acted swiftly to accept the resignation, apparently mindful of the graft scandal’s possible fallout on his leadership. “The resignation will be processed as quickly as possible,” Presidential spokesperson Park Jung-ha said. Kim is suspected of receiving bribes from lobbyist Park...

...sing a wide range of issues related to those addressed in the previous inter-Korean talks and the U.S.-North Korea talks in July,” the official said. The chief nuclear negotiators of the two Koreas h...ssary measures to resume the long-stalled negotiations. The talks, involving the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, have been stalled since the end of 2008 when North Korea left the negot...

South Korea’s spy agency has detained a North Korean defector for an alleged assassination attempt against a fellow defector acting as an anti-North Korean activist, an intelligence official said Fri...eafleting campaign. However, Park did not show up at the meeting after being tipped by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service on the suspect’s possible assassination attempt. The suspect was ar...

...dit results, which resulted in the much publicized retirement of Kang Ho-dong. The Korea Tax Payer’s Federation said Thursday that the filing had been completed with the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Of... filing. The NTS conducted tax audits into the reported incomes of Kang Ho-dong, one of the nation’s most popular TV presenters, and actress Kim Ah-joong in May, on suspicion that they had attempted ...

...f the issue as non-legal individual compensation cases Japan has virtually turned down South Korea’s proposal for talks over its sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, with a senior ...c channel, while a Seoul official said “an official reply from Japan is yet to be received.” Seoul’s recent suggestion was made upon the Constitutional Court’s recent ruling that the government’s lac...