Korea

Shares in India snapped three sessions of gains on Monday as investors sought refuge in safe havens as tensions in the Korean peninsula escalated following North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday. The Sensex fell 0.6% to 31,702.25, while the broader Nifty ended 0.62 % lower at 9,912.85. The NSE’s volatility index, [...]

Public executions staged in North Korea have increased in 2016 and a state surveillance organization founded under Kim Jong Un is enforcing tough measures to keep the population under control. A source on North Korea who spoke to Yonhap on the condition of anonymity said the number of people publicly executed now totals 60. That [...]

Concern over Chinese retaliation in response to the deployment of the U.S. anti-missile defense system THAAD is mounting in South Korea and among South Korean businesses in China. Several sources told local news service Money Today on Friday they are monitoring the situation for any trade-related restrictions that could be imposed on South Korean businesses [...]

North Korea said it has in custody a defector and South Korean national who was attempting to abduct a North Korean orphan when he was apprehended by local authorities. On Friday Pyongyang identified the detainee as Ko Hyun-chol, a man in his early fifties. North Korea staged a press conference where Ko confessed to spying [...]

North Korean chief Kim Jong-un stated his usa will now not use nuclear weapons except its sovereignty is infringed by way of others with nuclear palms, and is inclined to normalize ties with states that wereadversarial closer to it, nation media said on Sunday. isolated North Korea has made comparable statements in the past, even [...]

North Korea on Friday sentenced a U.S. citizen of Korean historical past to ten years in prison with hardlabor after convicting him of espionage and subversion, the second one American it has positioned behindbars this yr. Kim Dong Chul was sentenced after a quick trial in Pyongyang by North Korea’s supreme court docket, which determined [...]

The 14-year-old boy in the black school jacket stared at his sneakers, his heart pounding, as the policeman accused him of stealing a piece of bread. Even now, more than 30 years later, Choi Seung-woo weeps when he describes all that happened next. The policeman yanked down the boy’s pants and sparked a cigarette lighter [...]

Education authorities in Seoul, South Korea, banned corporal punishment at all schools in the capital last week. Teachers there are now prohibited from all forms of corporal punishment, including ordering students to do push-ups, run, hold their arms straight above their heads, and walk in a squatting position called a “ducks’ walk,” said Chung Young-chul, [...]