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Seoul: Day 3 of NKorea tests of short-range weapon

By AP News Tue, May 21, 2013 9:08AM UTC 0 Comment

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea continued firing short-range weapons over its own eastern waters Monday after a weekend of what it called “rocket launching tests” intended to bolster deterrence against enemy attack. South Korean officials were investigating exactly what it was that the North was testing. North Korea regularly conducts short-range missile tests....

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SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles

By AP News Mon, May 20, 2013 10:50AM UTC 0 Comment

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. The North fired two missiles Saturday morning and another in the afternoon,...

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Japan’s nationalist agenda: The year so far

By Yoo Eun Lee Sun, May 19, 2013 5:33AM UTC 0 Comment

Is the Japanese government turning more nationalistic and militaristic every day? The evidence tells us so. This week Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s comments about WWII sex slaves caused a lot of offense in nearby Asian countries who suffered brutal Japanese occupation during the 1900s. Here is a look at some of the nationalistic noise that...

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Sacking of Park’s spokesman highlights SKorean gender divide

By AP News Thu, May 16, 2013 12:26PM UTC 0 Comment

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean presidential spokesman who was fired after inappropriately touching a woman during a U.S. trip blames a “cultural difference” with America. Other South Koreans say the fault for such incidents truly lies with a society that allows powerful men to get away with harassment. Five months after the...

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Spies caught in website scandal embarrass SKorea

By AP News Mon, May 13, 2013 8:06PM UTC 0 Comment

Former National Intelligence Service director Won Sei-hoon, center, seen leaving Supreme Prosecutors' Office after being summoned last month. Pic: AP.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The scandal shaking up South Korea’s main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul’s opaque rival to the north, but the country’s own people. Internet postings ostensibly from ordinary South Koreans,...

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