Japan's Cabinet approved additional sanctions on North Korea on Tuesday in response to the communist state's multiple missile tests in July, news reports said. The sanctions, based on a U.N. Se.. [Sep.19,2006 21:21 KST]

The wife of U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow came under South Korean government scrutiny on Tuesday after she was suspected to have engaged in illegal commercial activity without a work permit. .. [Sep.19,2006 21:13 KST]

North Korea sought to open an account with a South Korean bank at an inter-Korean industrial complex in its border town of Kaesong last year, but the South Korean bank rejected the request, officials.. [Sep.19,2006 20:48 KST]

The United States is looking at various sanction options on North Korea, including reinstatement of measures withdrawn after conciliatory... [Sep.19,2006 20:11 KST]

South Korea asked the United States to suspend additional sanctions against North Korea, concerned that they would keep the Pyongyang regime from coming back to nuclear negotiations, a diplomatic so.. [Sep.19,2006 19:58 KST]

Two Iraqi terrorists who attempted to bomb the South Korean military facilities in Iraq have been sentenced to death in a trial there, informed military officials said Tuesday. The terrorists .. [Sep.19,2006 15:27 KST]

Song Min-soon, top presidential security advisor, said on September 18 that "there is a role only South Korea can take" in resolving the North... [Sep.19,2006 14:54 KST]

"If North Korea clearly show its willingness to return to the six-party talks, Washington can hold bilateral talks with Pyongyang even before the... [Sep.19,2006 14:05 KST]

South Korea's law enforcement agencies plan to send a team of investigators to France to observe that country's investigation into infanticide involving a French couple who lived in South Korea, a pr.. [Sep.18,2006 21:33 KST]

Seven North Korean defectors turned themselves in to Thai authorities and demanded refugee status Monday after arriving in the southeast Asian country earlier in the day, a civic activist group worki.. [Sep.18,2006 21:24 KST]