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• South Korea keeping an eye on the North

  May 7, 2013 3:11 AM

  South Korea's defense ministry today would not confirm North Korean missile movement, but said it was monitoring the north. Yesterday North Korea took two missiles off launch ready status. Last month Secretary of State John Kerry warned it would be a "huge mistake" to launch the medium range missiles.... more »

• Condolences from the world pour in for Connecticut shooting victims

  December 15, 2012 1:02 PM

  LONDON (AP) - As the world joined Americans in mourning the school massacre in Connecticut, many urged U.S. politicians to honor the 27 victims - especially the children - by pushing for stronger gun control laws. Twitter users and media personalities in the U.K. immediately invoked Dunblane - a 1996... more »

• 'Gangnam Style' most watched YouTube video ever

  November 25, 2012 2:40 PM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean rapper PSY's "Gangnam Style" has become YouTube's most viewed video of all time. YouTube says in a posting on its Trends blog that "Gangnam Style" had been viewed 805 million times as of Saturday afternoon, surpassing Justin Bieber's "Baby," which has had 803... more »

• South Korea to chemically castrate child sex offender

  May 24, 2012 12:55 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea says it will chemically castrate a convicted serial child sex offender in its first use of such a punishment. The Justice Ministry said Thursday the 45-year-man will get an injection aimed at inhibiting sexually violent impulses Friday. A psychiatric test concluded he is... more »

• SKorea presses NKorea to refrain from provocations

  May 21, 2012 1:18 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's top nuclear negotiator says a different path will open for North Korea if it refrains from provocations. Lim Sung-nam spoke before meeting with U.S. and Japanese envoys Monday to discuss North Korea. The meeting comes weeks after its failed long-range rocket launch and... more »

• Obama: N. Korean rocket test would isolate regime

  March 25, 2012 11:10 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - President Barack Obama says that a planned North Korean rocket launch will deepen its isolation in the international community and that Pyongyang will achieve nothing through threats or provocations. Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak both called on North Korea to cancel the rocket... more »

• US: NKorea's rocket launch plan highly provocative

  March 16, 2012 5:45 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The U.S. State Department says North Korea's planned rocket launch is "highly provocative" and would directly violate the North's international obligations. North Korea in a surprise announcement Friday said it plans to launch a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket in... more »

• South Korea welcomes North Korea's nuclear agreement with US

  February 29, 2012 1:53 PM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea is welcoming North Korea's agreement with the United States to suspend uranium enrichment and put a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests. Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae said in a statement late Thursday that North Korea has agreed to actions that Washington... more »

• North Korea's Kim issues threat before South Korea-US drills

  February 26, 2012 1:11 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea says its new leader, Kim Jong Un, has ordered troops to launch a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked. The official Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday that Kim issued the order during a visit to front-line military units, including one... more »

• House approves free trade pact with South Korea

  October 12, 2011 7:41 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has approved a free trade agreement with South Korea, the world's 13th largest economy and the seventh largest trading partner with the U.S. The South Korea vote Wednesday came after the House also passed free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama. The Senate was... more »

• Congress set for votes on trade bills next week

  October 6, 2011 9:10 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is set to approve free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama next week. The House Rules Committee has voted on procedures for taking up the long-delayed agreements, the last step before they go to the House floor. The House is expected to begin the... more »

• Senate GOP blocks hearing on free trade bills

  June 30, 2011 3:40 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans have blocked a hearing on three trade bills because they don't want to link the deals to an extension of a program that retrains workers hurt by foreign trade. Thursday's hearing was set for Senate Finance Committee. At issue were long-stalled trade agreements with... more »

• 4 in US now linked to German E. coli outbreak

  June 4, 2011 12:32 AM

  ATLANTA (AP) - Four people in the U.S. were apparently sickened by the food poisoning outbreak in Europe, health officials said Friday. Three are hospitalized with a serious complication. All four were in northern Germany in May. Though they didn't stay at the same hotel or eat at the... more »

• Springs vets worried about Korean conflicts 57 years after war

  July 24, 2010 7:51 PM

  Another year goes by for Korean War vets in Colorado Springs, 60 of them have passed since the war began. "I was only 17," says Robert Roper, remembering when he got involved in the conflict as a young Marine. Even this long after the war, some of those... more »

• North Korea threatens nuclear attack over US drills

  February 25, 2010 9:43 AM

  North Korea has reacted to U.S.-South Korean military maneuvers scheduled next month with a threat and a warning. Pyongyang says it could launch a "powerful" attack if the drills proceed, warning that it could even resort to nuclear means. The threat, routinely issued before the regularly scheduled military exercises,... more »

• Obama embarks on his first presidential trip to the Far East

  November 12, 2009 8:58 AM

  President Barack Obama launches his first presidential trip to the Far East today. After a quick stop in Alaska, he travels to Japan. There, he'll dine with the emperor and hold talks with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Other stops include Singapore, where the president will attend the annual Pacific Rim... more »