Trump's return to office raises uncertainty over U.S.-South Korea relations as political turmoil in Seoul challenges effective leadership and diplomacy.
In light of uncertainties over US trade policies and the rising tide of trade protectionism, it has become urgent for China, Japan, and South Korea to achieve new breakthroughs in economic and trade cooperation.
Taiwan's Presidential Office conducted its first ever tabletop exercise simulating a military escalation with China, several officials briefed on the matter said, at a time when the island is facing renewed Chinese military threats.
In response to a question about South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's remarks on Thursday, in which he cited cases threatening the security of South Korea and claimed that Chinese solar power facilities will destroy forests nationwide,
South Korea has become a “super-aged” society with one in five people aged 65 or older, official data showed Tuesday, underscoring the country’s deepening demographic crisis.
Andrei Lankov is a historian of North Korea at Kookmin University, Seoul. He is the author of The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. In 2017, the highly militarized regime of Kim Jong Un of North Korea found itself confronting a rare coalition of China,
South Korea's main opposition party vowed on Tuesday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo but reversed an earlier plan and decided to wait until later in the week, party officials said, as the risk of further political uncertainty heightened.
China-North Korea relations have significantly cooled this year as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to office.
If Trump is allowed by Elon Musk to stick to his guns, he can apply to China the principle he announced for his domestic opponents: “Success will be our retribution.”
South Korea has pledged to spend 55 trillion won ($38 billion) over the next three years to shore up the nation’s supply chain for critical minerals and the components needed for key industries, like electric vehicles and battery making.
North Korea has supplied Russia with thousands of troops to fight against Ukraine, intelligence officials said, but old footage that has resurfaced on social media does not show the funeral of a general deployed by Pyongyang to lead its troops in the ongoing invasion.