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…
South Korean prosecutors indicted the country’s four major oil refiners Monday on fair trade charges, including allegations that two of them colluded to raise fuel prices after the outbreak of war between the United States and Iran in March.
SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A military airport in the southwestern city of Gwangju was selected Monday as the site for a government-led project to create a semiconductor production cluster, a presidential official said.
The Chinese Navy successfully conducted the test launch of a “strategic missile” by a nuclear submarine into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, state-run media said.
BANGKOK (AP) — China’s military test-launched a long-range ballistic missile Monday from one of its nuclear-powered submarines in the South Pacific, drawing protest and concerns from countries in the region.
By repeatedly striking the highways that carry fuel, ammunition and reinforcements, Ukrainian commanders say they have stalled Russian advances and enabled Ukrainian counterattacks and strikes into illegally annexed Crimea to isolate the peninsula from the mainland. (AP video Srdjan Nedeljkovic and Dmytro Zhyhinas)
ABOARD THE HMS PRINCE OF WALES — Britain intercepted two Russian planes after moving an aircraft carrier to the Arctic Circle to support NATO missions.
NATO faces a crucial test of its credibility and future viability this week as leaders meet in Turkey, with new European defense spending targets under unprecedented scrutiny from the White House.
ABOARD THE HMS PRINCE OF WALES — The U.K. will show up at this week’s NATO summit with no long-term plan to reach alliance spending targets, something Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis told POLITICO is “mission critical” to deliver as soon as possible.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Wednesday while attending the NATO summit in Turkey, the White House said. Those discussions will come as Kyiv tries to refocus Trump’s attention on the conflict with Moscow an…
US President Donald Trump heads to Ankara, Turkey, on Monday evening for the annual NATO summit. Last year, he pushed alliance allies to spend more on defense. This year, his mission is to try to enforce those pledges. (AP Video: Nathan Ellgren)
This combination of album cover images show, top row from left, “Adam,” by Adam Lambert, “Foreign Tongues” by The Rolling Stones, “The Story of Michael and Tanya” by The War and Treaty,” bottom left, and “Fire From the Hip” by Finn Wolfhard. (More is More/Capitol/Atlantic Outpost/AWAL Recordings via AP)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Since he started work as NATO secretary-general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep the United States anchored to the world's biggest military alliance, employing outright flattery to dissuade US President Donald Trump from acting on threats to abandon it.
Donald Trump heads to Ankara on Monday for a key Nato summit, with allies on edge as the irascible US President continues to fume at the defence alliance.
Khamenei’s sons Masoud, Meysam and Mostafa, as well as Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Revolutionary Guard head Gen. Ahmad Vahidi all attended the prayers. But not attending was Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, another of Khamenei’s sons.
Explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Monday, the eve of a NATO summit, as Russia mounted its second major attack on the city in days.
Trump feels urgency about ending war after months of Kyiv-Moscow stalemate, says American official; Russia attacks Kyiv again. What we know on day 1,594
Prosecutors said Monday they have indicted four major domestic refiners in a 26 trillion-won ($17 billion) price-fixing case following the outbreak of the US-Iran war earlier this year.
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…
SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- The defense ministry on Monday postponed the planned announcement of its proposal to integrate the nation's military academies into a single institution due to the defense chief's overlapping schedules, sources said.
Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo – The United States has imposed sanctions on Rwandan businessmen and companies it says are helping finance the M23 rebellion in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) through the illicit trade in conflict minerals, signalling growing international pressure over a …
SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Monday they have indicted four major domestic refiners in a 26 trillion-won (US$17 billion) price-fixing case following the outbreak of the U.S.-Iran war earlier this year.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony for the delivery of an offshore patrol vessel to NATO member Romania on June 20. NATO allies are increasingly seeking Turkish arms. (Turkish Presidency via Anadolu Agency)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony for the delivery of an offshore patrol vessel to NATO member Romania on June 20. NATO allies are increasingly seeking Turkish arms. (Turkish Presidency via Anadolu Agency)
Istanbul – Two journalists were arrested in Turkey on Sunday, their media outlets said, the latest in a wave of detentions ahead of a NATO summit in Ankara next week due to be attended by leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump.
Just a few weeks into the war, one of the Persian Gulf’s top oil producers quietly began sneaking its crude out of the Strait of Hormuz. Before long, the covert project became so successful that the United Arab Emirates was already approaching its pre-war rate of flows through the waterway by the time the US and Ira…
El presidente Donald Trump habla en el evento “Salute to America” (Saludo a Estados Unidos), una celebración del Día de la Independencia en honor al 250mo aniversario de la nación, el sábado 4 de julio de 2026, en el National Mall de Washington. (Foto AP/Alex Brandon)