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Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts i…
Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing tr…
Emirates Global Aluminium, the UAE’s largest industrial company outside the oil and gas sector, reported a 34 per cent annual increase in its first-half adjusted net profit despite regional fallout from the Iran war.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed six people aboard a cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, the first reported fatalities from attacks targeting Red Sea shipping in more than a year.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that missile and drone strikes targeting military sites in Marib and Mocha killed and injured dozens of people.
A leaked internal Ministry of Defence (MoD) report, obtained by the BBC, has highlighted serious failings in a new military command set up to investigate the most severe crimes, including rape and sexual assault.
Hyundai Motor's labor union ramped up pressure on the automaker Wednesday by launching a fourth round of partial strikes, raising concerns that prolonged labor disruptions could undermine the automaker’s efforts to revive domestic sales with new models in the second half of the year.
US military operations in 2025 killed 153 civilians and wounded 243, a US official said on Tuesday, citing Pentagon assessments.
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NEW YORK — US stocks slipped a bit further from their records Tuesday, while oil prices kept swinging on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow crude to flow freely again.
MANILA, Philippines — Senate Impeachment Court Presiding Officer Francis Escudero on Wednesday urged both counsels not to let the "generational divide" heighten the situation during the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Erblin Ademi, right, whose father, Adem Ademi, a prominent surgeon, disappeared along with 22 other intellectuals during the Kosovo war in April 1999, speaks to police officers near the excavation site of a mass grave in Small Kalluder, Kosovo, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Zana Cimili)
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
The Supreme Court ruled that a woman who brandished a knife at an uncle during a violent confrontation should not be punished because it was done in self-defense.
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As the US-Iran war progressed Iran adapted how it attacked US military bases in the Middle East, which forced the US to use its already scarce supply of Patriot interceptors, according to a report from the New York Times on Tuesday.
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Sailors on a US aircraft carrier operating near Iran attempted to jump overboard amid exhaustion and low morale caused by extended operations, several news outlets have reported, citing crew members’ families.
It is perhaps a sign of the times that one of the UAE’s many small businesses is a company that produces an emergency response kit. Dr Daamini Shrivastav, a Dubai physician, co-founded the business with a friend to produce the Trooper Box – a package to help a family weather a storm with first-aid supplies, food bar…
The US president confirmed he covertly switched planes upon his departure from Ankara, saying ‘I guess there was a threat out there’
The US president confirmed he covertly switched planes upon his departure from Ankara, saying ‘I guess there was a threat out there’
Damage on the cargo vessel Tihamah near Murad, Yemen, August 11, 2026. Yemen's transport ministry said four crew members were killed after the vessel was attacked in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
India considers incidents along its disputed border with China “most serious” and “the state of the border affairs” will “reflect on the state of our larger bilateral ties,” the Ministry of External Affairs said Tuesday in response to a question about a fresh military face-off.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) -- A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced former ruler Bashar Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of atrocities committed during the country's nearly 14-year civil war.
SEOUL — North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast towards Japan early on Wednesday, Seoul's military said, days before the planned start of massive US-South Korea joint drills.
Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back was set to hold a meeting Wednesday with the leaders of the alumni groups of the Army, Navy and Air Force military academies and seek their support for the government's ongoing push to integrate the three academies into a single institution, the defense ministry said.
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SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back was set to hold a meeting Wednesday with the leaders of the alumni groups of the Army, Navy and Air Force military academies and seek their support for the government's ongoing push to integrate the three academies into a single institution, the defense minist…
Zelenskyy warns Putin will use Russian election, in which opposition to the war is banned, as pretext for major call-up of troops. What we know on day 1,631
Some 20 months after Syria's Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus and went to Moscow, amid jihadist groups taking over the capital city in December of 2024, Russia has finally reached a negotiated settlement over the fate of its Syrian bases with the new Sharaa government.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Ukraine had handed proposals to US negotiators for a plan to end the war with Moscowand suggested that Russia would use its parliamentary election next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilization.
MANILA, Philippines – Commission on Audit Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office (COA-ICFAO) state auditor Xylene del Campo returns to the witness stand Wednesday for the 15th day of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial, where she is set to face cross-examination by the defense over the alleged …
Geelong coach Chris Scott says he would like to give “an impassioned defence” of the people at his club who were involved in drafting the controversial agreement with Jake Kolodjashnij but would keep his counsel on the matter while an investigation was underway.
North Korea has launched a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan, according to Seoul and Tokyo, marking the second such test from Pyongyang in less than a week.
The presidential office on Wednesday held an emergency meeting to address North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch, describing it as a provocation and calling for an immediate halt to such actions.
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday toward the Sea of Japan off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, South Korea's military said.
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Israeli forces attacked agricultural land on Tuesday in the countryside of Syria’s Quneitra, according to local media reports.
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One of the most strategically important US military bases outside the continental U.S., often described as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the central Indian Ocean, faces a mysterious drone threat, according to a new report.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and glide bombs Tuesday, killing at least 10 civilians, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow is getting new military help from North Korea for its more than 4-year-old invasion.
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office on Wednesday held an emergency meeting to address North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch, describing it as a provocation and calling for an immediate halt to such actions.
The University of Tokyo's Intelligent Space Systems Laboratory has developed 15 microsatellites that have been launched into orbit. (Intelligent Space Systems Laboratory)
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The move comes as South Korea and the US plan to conduct joint military drills to counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear capabilities
The move comes as South Korea and the US plan to conduct joint military drills to counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear capabilities
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