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Starbucks stores across South Korea will close for half a day next week for staff to attend a history lesson following a promotional campaign gone awry, the coffee giant said on Monday. Starbucks Korea, with more than 2,000 stores nationwide, found itself embroiled in public upro…

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent Pyongyang visit may ultimately be remembered as a turning point in the international debate over North Korea’s nuclear weapons. While most headlines focused on the visit’s timing and the many pledges made by the two leaders aimed at expanding…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s latest message of reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin, coming shortly after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Pyongyang, constitutes a form of strategic hedging, according to observers. The letter suggested that Pyongyang-Moscow…

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea this week helped to improve Kim Jong-un’s international standing and gave him a “big strategic win”, analysts said. Pyongyang has become increasingly close to Russia in recent years and has sent thousands of troops to support it…

The Xi administration has been slow to adapt to its ally’s developments, and this summit represented an attempt to reset relations.

Test yourself on the week of June 6: Peru’s presidential race heads for a photo finish, Xi Jinping visits North Korea, and the World Cup kicks off.

Even Western pundits grudgingly admitted the summit between President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a success. Both sides, according to Bloomberg, “appear to have walked away with what they wanted”. Given China’s rising pre-eminence while avoiding any damagin…

A quiet revision to Chongryon’s platform carries significant implications for Tokyo.

Seoul court sentences former leader for sending military drones into North Korea.

A South Korean court sentenced ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday for sending military drones into North Korea, saying he planned the action as pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024. The drone flights two months before Yoon suspended c…

The seven-year gap since Xi’s previous visit to North Korea suggests a cooling in bilateral relations. What does it mean that he made the trip to Pyongyang at last?

North Korea is gaining in strategic importance for China to counter the United States, but Pyongyang may refrain from intensifying military ties with Beijing, analysts say. During his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said both s…

A U.S. naval expedition sent to open relations with Korea went awry after U.S. forces fired on overmatched Korean troops.

In today's edition: EU-South Korea summit, FCAS, European Defence Union

A dismissed high-ranking Filipino police officer convicted of orchestrating the 2016 killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo was arrested in the Philippine capital of Manila after nearly two years on the run, authorities said on Wednesday. President Lee Jae Myung welcomed…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised deepening exchanges in politics and business between their countries. Pyongyang's nuclear program was notably not on the table.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised an array of cooperative measures, while avoiding the thorny issue of Pyongyang's nuclear program.

President Lee sold Korean democracy abroad as a system that fixes itself. Now his party and the administration have to prove it by holding the election commission to account without handing the conspiracy theorists a win.

The Chinese leader’s long-awaited visit to Pyongyang aims to counter Russian influence.

Far-right meme politics shows how strong anti-democratic forces remain.

Toplines Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping implicitly legitimized North Korean demands for recognition of its nuclear program and sanctions relief by acknowledging the…

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea may have helped cement China’s “indispensable” role in ensuring regional stability and highlighted its importance to his host’s economy, analysts said. The Chinese president wrapped up his visit on Tuesday afternoon after reachi…

Touting the achievements Pyongyang has made in recent years, Xi de facto recognized North Korea as a nuclear-armed state.

Rarely a week passes without a new story about Russia’s shadow fleet. Tankers catch fire in the Mediterranean, are added to sanctions lists, or are boarded while passing through European waters. But the bigger story is not the vessels that are caught, but those that aren&#8…