South Korea’s leading presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung proposed a constitutional amendment to shorten the presidency to ...

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Lee Jae-myung appears poised to take over the government, possibly marking the end of a protracted crisis that began with the conservative who ...

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South Korea's former prime minister and acting president Han Duck-soo ended a short, ill-fated attempt to win the ...

South Korea’s embattled conservative party has taken the unprecedented step of nullifying its primary and replacing presidential candidate Kim Moon Soo with former Prime ...

South Korea’s embattled conservative party has taken the unprecedented step of nullifying its primary and replacing ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Friday celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, as President ...

This incident illustrates how North Korean society ... An image of now deceased President Kim Il Sung created by thousands of participants in the Arirang Mass Games. (David Stanley, Flickr, Creative ...

Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted Thursday for abuse of power over his martial law declaration, prosecutors said, adding to the impeached ex-leader's legal jeopardy.

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