South Korea's Yoon says North Korean troops' Ukraine war deployment may come sooner than expected
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Monday that the actual deployment of North Korean troops to the front lines of the war in Ukraine may come sooner than expected.
South Korea prosecutors drop charges against first lady over Dior handbag
SEOUL, South Korea — Prosecutors in South Korea have decided not to charge first lady Kim Keon Hee over allegations of inappropriately accepting gifts last year, including a Christian Dior handbag, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing the Seoul prosecutors’ office. The scandal has caused a political uproar...
North Korea's foreign minister leaves for Russia amid troop dispatch
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, has left Pyongyang to visit Russia, state media KCNA said on Tuesday, amid concerns about the two countries' growing cooperation over Russia's war in Ukraine.
South Korea vows response to North Korea bolstering Putin’s forces: ‘We won’t sit idle’
South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol has vowed he “won’t sit idle” over reports from his country’s spy agency and the US that North Korea has sent thousands of troops to Russia to bolster Vladimir Putin’s forces.Speaking in Seoul after talks with visiting Polish president Andrzej Duda, Mr Yoon described the North Korean deployment as “a provocation that threatens global security beyond the Korean Peninsula and Europe”."We agreed that North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia, which is in direct violation of the UN charter and UN Security Council resolutions, is a provocation that threatens global security," Mr Yoon said...
North Korean trash balloon drops leaflets calling South Korean president and his wife mentally unstable
A trash-filled balloon sent by North Korea fell on the presidential compound in Seoul and scattered leaflets deriding president Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee, South Korean authorities said on Thursday.South Korea‘s presidential security service said one of the balloons floated by North Korea burst over the presidential compound on Thursday morning, dropping rubbish. There were no dangerous items in it, but there were leaflets with graphic messages accusing the Yoon government of leaving South Koreans living in despair and describing the first couple as immoral and mentally unstable.This came just days after Pyongyang declared the...
North Korea propaganda leaflets found in Seoul attack South Korea's first couple
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean propaganda leaflets apparently carried by balloons were found scattered on the streets of the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday, including some making personal attacks on the country's president and first lady.