All posts tagged "topstories"

  • President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at the presidential Blue House in Seoul last week. Credit Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
    Trump Welcomes South Korean Leader as Options on the North Wane

    By MARK LANDLER New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/world/asia/trump-south-korean-president-moon-jae-in.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   WASHINGTON — President Trump’s campaign to rein in North Korea is about to get a lot more complicated, as a progressive new leader in South Korea and fraying ties with...

    • Posted June 28, 2017
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  • An aerial view of a golf course where the United States deployed an antimissile system in Seongju, South Korea. The system, known as Thaad, has been a point of contention with South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in. Credit Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
    South Korea Voices Support for U.S. Antimissile System

    By CHOE SANG-HUN New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/world/asia/south-korea-thaad-missile-defense.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s foreign minister indicated strongly on Monday that her government would honor an agreement to deploy an American missile-defense system despite protests and economic retaliation...

    • Posted June 27, 2017
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  • A funeral was held for Otto F. Warmbier in Wyoming, Ohio, on Thursday. Credit John Sommers Ii/Reuters
    North Korea Defends Otto Warmbier’s Treatment

    By CHOE SANG-HUN https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/asia/otto-warmbier-north-korea.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea responded for the first time on Friday to American accusations that it had fatally brutalized Otto F. Warmbier, the captive college student, asserting he was given medical...

    • Posted June 26, 2017
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  • President Moon Jae-in, left, greeted the North Korean delegation during the opening ceremony of the World Taekwondo championship in Muju, South Korea, on Saturday. Credit Kim Ju-Hyoung/Yonhap, via Associated Press
    South Korea Leader Hopes for Unified Olympic Team With the North

    By CHOE SANG-HUN   SEOUL, South Korea — President Moon Jae-in of South Korea proposed on Saturday that his country and North Korea form a unified team to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics, to be held...

    • Posted June 26, 2017
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  • South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, second from right, watched a test launch of a type of Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missile at the Agency for Defense Development in Anheung, South Korea, on Friday. Credit Yonhap, via Associated Press
    South Korea Tests Missile Capable of Striking Any Part of the North

    By CHOE SANG-HUN New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/asia/south-korea-missile-ballistic.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea successfully test-fired on Friday a new ballistic missile with a range far enough to hit any part of North Korea, as it seeks to counter...

    • Posted June 23, 2017
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  • Choi Soon-sil, a longtime friend of Park Geun-hye, the ousted president, in Seoul. She was sentenced on Friday but is also charged with other, more serious crimes. Those trials are continuing. Credit Park Ji-hye/News1, via Reuters
    In South Korea, Confidante of Ousted President Gets 3 Years in Prison

    By CHOE SANG-HUN New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/asia/south-korea-choi-soon-sil-sentence-prison.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share SEOUL, South Korea — A longtime friend of Park Geun-hye, the ousted president of South Korea, was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday on charges of abusing her influence...

    • Posted June 23, 2017
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  • President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Fla., in April. Beijing had hoped the initial cordiality between the two leaders would establish the sort of nonconfrontational partnership that it prefers. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times
    China’s Trump Honeymoon: Unexpected, and at Risk of Ending

    By STEVEN LEE MYERS New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/world/asia/china-trump-north-korea.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share BEIJING — The short, unexpected honeymoon that China enjoyed with President Trump seems to be in trouble, dashing hopes in Beijing that the two countries had embarked on a new,...

    • Posted June 22, 2017
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