North Korea has maintained an “extensive and multilayered” system of forced labor in a bid to use it as a means of controlling and monitoring its people for the interest of the state, a U.N. report showed Tuesday.

The United Nations Human Rights Off…

New Zealand is “pleased” to be one of the Indo-Pacific partners of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its deputy prime minister has said, calling the grouping a new “arrangement with greater depth” that mirrors a stronger security alignme…

The delinquency ratio on loans extended by banks in South Korea rose for a second consecutive month in May, data showed Tuesday.

The delinquency ratio on banks’ won-denominated loans stood at 0.51 percent at end-May, up 0.03 percentage point from a …

South Korea’s import prices rebounded in June as a rise in prices of petrochemical goods and raw materials offset a fall in oil prices, central bank data showed Tuesday.

The import price index rose 0.7 percent last month from a month earlier followi…

The number of Korean people still working at 70 and above increased by 150,000 in the first half of this year from a year earlier. It was the largest increase since related statistics began to be compiled in 2018, according to Statistics Korea.

The …

Former President Donald Trump on Monday announced Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his vice presidential running mate, as the Republican Party kicked off a national convention to officially crown Trump as the GOP nominee for the November general election.
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The Trump assassination attempt is shaking the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The possibility of Trump 2.0 is growing fast after he survived the shooting during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday. U.S. media ratcheted up the likelih…

The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has plunged U.S. politics into extreme confusion and panic. The incident adds another unexpected variable to the race leading up to the presidential vote slated for Nov. 5. All of this is hap…