South Korean President Yoon Sook-yeol on Thursday accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, even as critics demanded Yoon step down over his aborted attempt to impose martial law on Tuesday.
North Korean state media outlets published multiple articles on Wednesday amplifying calls for South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to resign – but notably omitting the fact that most calls for his ouster are in response to his failed attempt to impose martial law on the country.
The administration of outgoing President Joe Biden appeared to be caught by surprise at the shock declaration of martial law in Seoul.
South Korea awoke on Wednesday to a flurry of resignations of senior presidential staff, a united opposition filing an impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol, and a confused ruling party demanding answers from Yoon after his failed attempt to impose martial law on Tuesday night.
Lawmakers from South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party (DP) managed to defy a lockdown on parliamentary headquarters to table a motion that would invalidate President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law at roughly 1:00 a.m. local time – even as armed soldiers smashed through the windows of the building and moved to clear the assembly floor.
South Korean Yoon Suk-yeol stunned the world on Tuesday morning by declaring a state of “emergency martial law” because “subversive, anti-state elements” among the opposition are blocking his agenda.
The office of the president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, confirmed to reporters on Monday that Yoon has begun practicing his golf game.
South Korea’s conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol confirmed in a press conference on Thursday that he held a phone call with American President-elect Donald Trump that day to discuss, among other issues, North Korea’s growing belligerence against its neighbor and its involvement in the Ukraine war.
Kim Tae-hyo, deputy national security adviser to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, said on Wednesday that Seoul will “work to establish a perfect Korea-U.S. security posture with the new Washington administration to ensure unwavering national security.”
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told a senior Saudi official in Seoul on Tuesday that his country is potentially a “best partner” to cooperate on a variety of issues of mutual interest, most prominently defense development and technology.
The South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reportedly told lawmakers on Wednesday that it had reason to believe communist North Korea has refurbished the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, unused since 2017, and could potentially detonate a nuclear weapon in time for the U.S. presidential election.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Tuesday that his government is preparing “countermeasures” in response to evidence of a growing North Korean presence in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, demanding of his Cabinet a “heightened sense of vigilance.”
North Korean propaganda leaflets featuring disparaging messages against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee were found on Thursday scattered on the streets of Seoul.
South Korea said on Tuesday it is considering a set of “phased measures” in response to deepening North Korean military cooperation with Russia, possibly including weapons shipments to Ukraine.
The city government of Seoul announced on Monday that it will launch a 24-hour call center for residents who are struggling with intense feelings of loneliness and isolation. The need for such a service offers another glimpse at the cultural impact of demographic collapse.
NATO’s Rutte warns of a “serious escalation” if North Korean troops reinforce Russia’s invasion force in Ukraine.
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un delivered a violent rant in which he questioned the mental abilities of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol.
Vice President Kamala Harris published a policy page on her official website Sunday promising she is “ready to be Commander in Chief on day one,” but she cited one of her most notorious foreign policy gaffes — claiming the United States has a “strong alliance” with North Korea — as evidence.
The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that many of the government’s climate change goals are unconstitutional.
Statistics Korea, a government operation run by the South Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance, released data on Monday that showed the population rose by 0.2 percent in 2023.
The International Olympic Committee apologized to the nation of South Korea for incorrectly identifying its delegation as North Korea’s.
The armed forces of South Korea began what they confirmed will be daily, unceasing loudspeaker broadcasts on the border with North Korea on Friday, typically featuring anti-communist content, news banned by the Kim regime, and South Korean popular music.
According to North Korean state media, dictator Kim Jong-un sent a message of sympathy to former president Donald Trump and his family on Saturday night after the failed assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday issued a statement condemning North Korea’s weapons exports to Russia and expressing concern about the alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is expected to participate in this week’s NATO summit and pressure NATO to monitor North Korea.
South Korean officials reported that North Korea has ordered all of its overseas students to return home for “political indoctrination.”
The Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS), a South Korean state-managed think tank, published a report this week suggesting that the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol should consider developing a nuclear weapons arsenal in response to North Korea signing a mutual defense treaty with Russia.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin sent a letter to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un thanking him for a warm welcome in Pyongyang.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a “demographic national emergency” and promised to spare no effort in increasing birth rates.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin said South Korea deciding to offer weapons aid to Ukraine would be a “very big mistake,” threatening “respective decisions” that would anger Seoul in remarks on Thursday responding to South Korea announcing it would consider arming Ukraine.
South Korea expressed “grave concern” about Russia’s defense pact with North Korea and is considering supplying arms to Ukraine in response.
South Korea confirmed that between 20 and 30 North Korean soldiers crossed the inter-Korean border, violating the sovereignty of the country.
South Korea installed massive loudspeakers on its border with North Korea and broadcast news, political messages, and pop music for the first time in a decade on Sunday in response to Pyongyang dumping hundreds of balloons filled with feces and trash over its neighbor this month.
The government of North Korea said on Sunday that it will stop sending balloons loaded with trash and manure into South Korea, ostensibly because the regime in Pyongyang thinks the trash balloon campaign accomplished its objectives. South Korea was not mollified, and said on Monday it will suspend a 2018 military pact as the first of its “unendurable” retaliatory measures.
The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, signed a “Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)” alongside South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul on Wednesday, dramatically expanding trade between the two countries.
North Korea on Monday lashed out at South Korea, Japan, and even Pyongyang’s patron China for supporting the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at a summit in Seoul.
Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his officials to begin a “complete review” of all federal birth rate policies.
Officials with the South Korean military confirmed on Monday that communist North Korea had littered roads between North and South Korea with landmines and begun taking down streetlights installed on them.
Multiple senior members of conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration and the head of his People Power Party (PPP) tendered their resignations on Thursday after vote counts confirmed that the left-wing Democratic Party decisively took over the National Assembly in Wednesday’s midterm election.
Exit polls in South Korea’s midterm elections on Wednesday predicted a landslide win for the left-wing Democratic Party (DP) and its “sister party,” the Democratic United Party (DUP).
