World Mar 10 North Korea fires ballistic missiles into sea after the U.S. and South Korea began military drills South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s southwestern Hwanghae province. It called the weapons close-range but didn't say how far they flew.
World Feb 20 Impeached South Korean president appears in 2 different courts while defending his martial law decree South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has appeared in two different courts, contesting his arrest on rebellion charges in one and pleading to preserve his presidency in the other, both related to his brief imposition of martial law in December.
World Jan 19 Supporters of South Korea's impeached President Yoon riot over his formal arrest Hours after South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was formally arrested, triggering rioting by his supporters, his lawyers said Sunday that he remains defiant in his refusal to answer questions over the probe into his declaration of martial law last month.
World Jan 18 South Korean court orders formal arrest of impeached and detained President Yoon Yoon, who has been in detention since he was apprehended on Wednesday, faces potential rebellion charges linked to his declaration of martial law on Dec. 3, which set off the country’s most serious political crisis since its democratization in the…
World Jan 16 South Korean court rejects petition to release impeached president detained over martial law Yoon had avoided several requests to appear for questioning before the anti-corruption agency and police carried out a major law enforcement operation involving hundreds of personnel to detain him at his residential compound in Seoul.
World Jan 15 South Korean authorities detain impeached President Yoon following questioning South Korea's impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was sent to a detention center near Seoul on Wednesday night, after being questioned by anti-corruption officials who took him into custody over his imposition of martial law last month.
World Jan 13 North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine haven't shown desire to defect, Seoul's spy agency says South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers that two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region haven’t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea.
World Jan 07 North Korea says it tested hypersonic intermediate range missile designed to strike remote Pacific targets North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the Pacific.
World Jan 07 South Korean agency receives new court warrant to detain impeached president South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says it has received a new court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after its previous attempt was blocked by the presidential security service last week.
World Jan 06 South Korean anti-corruption agency, police debate more forceful measures to detain impeached president South Korea’s anti-corruption agency and police debated on Monday more forceful measures to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after their previous attempt was blocked by the presidential security service last week.