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SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) –South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been impeached by parliament over her role in an influence-peddling scandal linked to her friend Choi Soon-sil, and now awaits a Constitutional Court review of that decision. The court has said it will conclude oral arguments on Monday (February 27). It has not said when a verdict will be delivered but, according to past practice, a decision could be reached after about two weeks. If […]
(Eagle News Service) — Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Thursday that he might allow the phone conversation recorded by Ricky Sta. Isabel’s wife to be played in the Senate inquiry looking into Jee Ick-Joo’s killing. Lacson, chair of the committee on public order and dangerous drugs conducting the investigation, said the Jan. 14 recording–which Jinky Sta. Isabel said would prove her husband’s innocence and would implicate her husband’s immediate superior, Supt. Raphael Dumlao—should however first be […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Pyongyang’s state media on Thursday blasted Malaysia for an “illegal and immoral” autopsy on a man believed be the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, breaking a 10-day silence on the airport assassination. “Malaysia is obliged to hand his body to the DPRK (North Korea) side as it made an autopsy and forensic examination of it in an illegal and immoral manner”, the North’s Korean Jurists Commitee said, in comments carried […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The axe finally fell on South Korea’s once-mighty Hanjin Shipping on Friday as a Seoul court declared it bankrupt after struggling for years under the weight of billions of dollars-worth of debt. Hanjin filed for bankruptcy protection in August owing $5.37 billion as creditors refused to bail it out, with dozens of its vessels stranded outside around the world as they were refused entry to ports. An accounting firm hired […]
by Park Chan-Kyong Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The heir of South Korean giant Samsung was arrested Friday as part of a probe into corruption and influence-peddling that caused President Park Geun-Hye to be impeached. “It is acknowledged that it is necessary to arrest (Lee Jae-Yong) in light of a newly added criminal charge and new evidence,” a court spokesman said in a statement. Lee Jae-Yong, Samsung Electronics vice chairman, is accused […]
UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) –The United States, Japan and South Korea on Sunday requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss North Korea’s missile launch, Pyongyang’s first test since US President Donald Trump took office. The council is expected to hold consultations on Monday after North Korea confirmed it had “successfully” tested a ballistic missile. “The United States, along with Japan and the Republic of Korea, have requested urgent consultations on the DPRK’s […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — Hundreds of South Korean artists sued President Park Geun-hye and former aides on Thursday (February 9) for trying to silence them with a blacklist of writers, actors and others critical of the scandal-plagued administration. Park’s former presidential chief of staff and her culture minister have been charged with abuse of power for their role in drafting the blacklist in a corruption scandal that has gripped the country and led to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in South Korea Thursday on the first leg of a trip that also includes Japan, two key allies rattled by Donald Trump’s isolationist ascent to power. It is the first overseas tour by a senior official in the Trump administration as concerns rise about the direction of American policy in the region under the protectionist and fiery US leader. On the campaign trail, Trump […]
by Thomas WATKINS Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — New Pentagon chief James Mattis on Wednesday heads to South Korea and Japan, where he will seek to reassure the key US allies about American security commitments in the region. The defense secretary’s visit marks the first overseas trip of any senior official in the government of President Donald Trump, who suggested while campaigning that America’s longstanding role in Northeast Asia could change. “The trip […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s defense chief and his new US counterpart vowed Tuesday to push ahead with a plan to deploy a US anti-missile system this year, Seoul’s military said, despite angry protests by China. The two allies last year announced the plan to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system following a series of atomic and missile tests by nuclear-armed North Korea. New US Defense Secretary James Mattis and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump and South Korea’s Acting President Hwang Kyo-Ahn vowed Sunday to “strengthen” their joint defense capabilities against the belligerent North, the White House said. “President Trump reiterated our ironclad commitment to defend the ROK, including through the provision of extended deterrence, using the full range of military capabilities,” the White House said in a statement, using an acronym for the South’s formal name. “The two leaders agreed […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte vowed he would not let criminal cops who had tainted the integrity of the national police off the hook, as he stressed that the cops responsible for the kidnap-slaying of a Korean businessman would “suffer.” The President on Thursday apologized to the South Korean government and all its citizens for what happened to South Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo who had been abducted and killed by certain policemen from the […]
