Washington revealed new allegations about Iran’s leadership on Tuesday, when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking at a Pentagon briefing with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Cane, said he believed Mojtaba Khamenei, widely described as the newly emerging supreme leader, had likely been injured in an

WASHINGTON, D.C. — South Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Min-seok met with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Thursday afternoon local time. The Prime Minister’s Office said Kim explained that the National Assembly’s passage of a Special Act on U.S. investment would

Seoul, South Korea — A prominent YouTuber and broadcaster, Kim Eo-jun, has become the focal point of a fierce political dispute after a guest on his channel raised a claim that a key aide to President Lee Jae-myung tried to trade the dismissal of a criminal case against the president with

South Korea began enforcing an "oil price ceiling" on fuel from midnight on the 13th, aiming to curb domestic price spikes driven by global tensions in the Middle East. The policy sets a maximum supply price that refiners can charge for gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, with the ceilings

China International Airlines will resume the Beijing–Pyongyang air route from the 30th, marking the first time air links between North Korea and China have reopened in more than six years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the skies. Earlier, North Korea and China restarted passenger train service, operating four

Hanwha Aerospace and Krafton announced on the 13th that they will pursue a joint venture to fuse physical AI technology with defense-industrial capabilities, accelerating joint research and development and moving toward commercialization. The plan also envisions expanding cooperation into space and aviation sectors over the long term. The collaboration blends

Hanwha Aerospace and Krafton have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to jointly develop “physical AI” technology for defense, with the goal of establishing a joint venture that would integrate AI capable of autonomous judgment into real-world hardware such as robots, drones and other defense platforms. The plan also envisions

South Korea’s Education Ministry on Wednesday outlined how regional medical student quotas (지역의사제) will be expanded for 32 medical schools outside Seoul, with changes phased in through the 2027 academic year and beyond. The plan aims to boost university and hospital-based training, prioritizing national universities and ensuring small private

Springlike weather was evident in much of Korea’s Gangwon Province, with daytime highs above 10 C in much of the Yeongseo region as people browsed flowers at Chuncheon’s traditional market on Saturday. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said the forecast for the 14th calls for morning lows of

South Korea’s National Assembly moved to restart work on political reform just over two months before the June 3 local elections, as the Special Committee on Political Reform (정개특위) presses ahead with redistricting discussions long overdue under the Public Official Election Act, which requires district boundaries to be set