Moon,a liberal former human rights lawyer who was jailed as a student by a previous dictatorship, favors closer ties with North Korea, saying hard-line conservative governments did nothing to prevent the North’s development of nuclear-armed missiles.
The final opinion surveys released last week showed Moon, the Democratic Party candidate, had about a 20 percentage-point lead over his two main rivals a centrist and a conservative.
Calling it an ‘extremely reckless’ move, Pyongyang said that Washington is to blame for rising tensions in the region and that it was presaging a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
The installed elements include two mobile launchers, an AN/TPY-2 radar and other equipment. A THAAD battery is composed of six mobile launchers, 48 interceptors, the radar and the fire and control unit.
North Korea conducted live-fire artillery drills on Tuesday, the 85th anniversary of the founding of its million-person strong Korean People's Army.
The Navy's existing fleet of six Soviet-origin minesweeping ships will be decommissioned by the end of 2018.
Pence struck a stern tone as he began talks with Abe and other Japanese leaders after arriving at a U.S. naval base from South Korea.
South Korean prosecutors today indicted ex-President Park Geun-hye on high-profile corruption charges that could potentially send her to jail for life.
Pence is set to arrive in South Korea on Sunday as President Donald Trump vows that Kim Jong Un's government is a "problem" that will be "taken care of."
Ahead of the summit meet between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping scheduled to take place later this week, North Korea today fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan
Park (65) was driven to a detention centre south of Seoul after a judge in the Seoul Central District Court approved her arrest.
Days after North Korea claimed a major breakthrough in its rocket development program, the US and South Korean militaries today said that Pyongyang’s latest missile launch ended in failure on Wednesday.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye was removed from office on Friday after the country’s constitutional court upheld his impeachment.
Malaysia has made it clear that it has no plans to cut off diplomatic ties with North Korea despite the continuing standoff between the countries.
With China angrily denouncing US deployment of anti-missile system in South Korea, Washington on Tuesday described its decision as a defensive measure against North Korean threats and said that it does not pose any threat to Beijing.
China has responded aggressively to the US’ move to set up a controversial missile defense system in South Korea, a day after North Korea test-launched four ballistic missiles into the ocean near Japan.
To counter growing threats from North Korea, the United States has started deploying an advanced missile defence system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad), in South Korea.
North Korea today fired "several" banned ballistic missiles that flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) into waters off its east coast, South Korea's military said
In a counter to any possible aggression by Pyongyang, US Defense Secretary James Mattis has asserted his country's commitment to deploy an advanced anti-missile system in South Korea "as soon as possible". The development comes
Prosecutors say the Samsung heir gave bribes worth $36 million to Park and her confidante to help win government support for a smooth leadership transfer from Lee's ailing father to Lee
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