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by Jung Ha-Won SEOUL, South Korea | AFP | — South Korean President Park Geun-Hye is facing calls to resign over allegations she allowed a close personal friend to meddle in state affairs. The woman at the heart of the scandal is an elusive figure with no government post or security clearance but a reportedly Rasputin-like grip on the president’s trust and affections. Here are five key questions about an ongoing and sometimes bizarre […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday called for constitutional reform that could allow future presidents to serve two terms — a sensitive issue for a country tainted by memories of long-term, autocratic rule. While its constitution grants enormous power to the executive, South Korea is one of the only economically advanced liberal democracies to restrict the presidency to a single five-year term, with no possibility of re-election. The limit […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapon programme and defended the deployment of a US anti-missile system in the face of repeated “provocations” by Pyongyang. Tensions have been running high on the divided Korean peninsula ever since the North carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, and are expected to spike again when the South launches an annual joint military exercise […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP)—South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday confirmed a flurry of intelligence reports suggesting that North Korea is readying to conduct a fifth nuclear test in defiance of tightened United Nations sanctions. “Signs that it is preparing a fifth nuclear test have recently been detected,” Park told a cabinet meeting. Her remarks followed South Korean media reports in which unnamed government and intelligence officials spoke of a spike in activity at the […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP)—North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has claimed a “historic” advance in the country’s nuclear strike capability with the successful test of a solid-fuel rocket engine, state media said Thursday. The announcement came as South Korean President Park Geun-Hye ordered the military to “strengthen readiness” in the wake of multiple North Korean threats to launch nuclear and conventional missile attacks. Tensions have been soaring on the divided Korean peninsula since the North carried […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP)—North Korea must pay the price for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said Tuesday, vowing to pressure Pyongyang into accepting denuclearization as its only viable option for survival. In a televised speech to mark the anniversary of the 1919 independence movement against Japanese rule over the Korean peninsula, Park said failure to respond to the North’s “reckless provocations” would only result in further nuclear […]
Rescue teams in South Korea are racing against time to find almost 300 people missing after a ferry sank off the country’s southern coast. The vessel was carrying a large group of high school students. A distress signal was sent from the ferry at 9:00 a.m. local time (0000 GMT), but the 6,825-ton vessel sank within two hours, after listing sharply and capsizing. It sank 20 kilometers (13 miles) off the southern island of Byungpoong. […]
