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It was 25 years ago that South Korea set up its first diplomatic relations with a communist country. The establishment of formal ties with Hungary in 1989, …

WASHINGTON ― It’s “back to school” week for President Barack Obama, after what a CNN analyst called “the vacation from Hell.” So perhaps it’s a …

A government report released this week has rekindled controversy over the feasibility of a project to build a new international airport in the southeastern …

For a supposed conservative, South Korean President Park Geun-hye is considering a shocking proposal ― taxing companies for having too much money. She wants …

PARIS ― At the Cold War’s outset, there was an intense debate in the United States between those who wanted to contain communism and those who wanted to …

How do you deal with a hideous terrorist group that has morphed into a Mideast state with a huge war chest and an aggressive army ― and beheads an American …

Rarely has an acronym led such a charmed life as BRICS. Casually invented by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economist and Bloomberg View columnist Jim …

A man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Gwangju last week was wearing an electronic ankle bracelet at the time. A few hours later, the …

The National Assembly has come to a halt as the ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy lock horns over a special bill …

Before the crack of dawn on May 9, 1970, President Richard Nixon and four Secret Service agents quietly left the White House and drove to the Lincoln Memorial, …