TEHRAN, Jul 30 - South Korea is seeking an annual $350 million in trade sanctions against the United States in an Obama-era dispute over tariffs on steel pipes, it said in a World Trade Organization (WTO) filing published on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Jul 29- South Korea says it is examining “various options” to protect ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, refuting earlier reports that it will join a US-led military coalition to deter what Washington calls Iran’s threat to shipping in the Persian Gulf region.
TEHRAN, Jul 29 - South Korea said Monday it's returning three North Koreans who crossed the Koreas' sea border aboard a wooden fishing boat over the weekend.
TEHRAN, Jul 26 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waned Seoul against "double-dealing" through buying advanced arms at the time of peace negotiation between the two countries.
TEHRAN, Jul 24 - Russia told South Korea that an equipment malfunction led its military aircraft into an unintended area on Tuesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing the South Korean presidential office.
TEHRAN, Jul 23 -Seoul says its fighter jets have fired warning shots at a Russian military aircraft after it entered South Korean airspace, in the first such incident between the countries.
TEHRAN, Jul 21 - South Koreans have held a sit-in protest in Seoul, denouncing Japan for its recent trade restrictions on their country over wartime slavery disputes.
TEHRAN, Jul 19 - Japan’s foreign minister publicly admonished South Korea’s ambassador on Friday in a worsening row over compensation for Korean forced laborers that has spilled over into their trade in high-tech materials used to make memory chips and screens.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 -South Korea’s central bank unexpectedly cut its policy interest rate for the first time in three years on Thursday, as a trade dispute with Japan among other pressures heightened risks for the already slowing economy.
TEHRAN, Jul 16 - Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko said on Tuesday it was “regrettable” that the South Korean government had made what he said was an erroneous explanation after the two sides sat down for a working-level meeting over Japan’s export controls.
TEHRAN, Jul 11 - North Korea has criticized the South’s acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets as an “extremely dangerous action” that could jeopardize inter-Korean relations.
TEHRAN, Jul 11 -South Korea’s foreign minister told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Japan’s export curbs against Seoul are “undesirable”, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, as a trade row between the East Asian neighbors grows.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - The South Korean government has angrily denied claims by Japan that its is turning a blind eye to transfers of sensitive technology to North Korea, in defiance of United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang.
TEHRAN, Jul 8 - The son of the highest-profile South Korean ever to defect to North Korea has arrived in the North to permanently resettle, the country's state media said. If confirmed, it would be an unusual case of a South Korean defecting to the impoverished, authoritarian North.
TEHRAN, Jul 7 -South Korea is assessing the risks of a row with Japan over forced wartime labor spreading to the financial sector, including loans and investments by Japanese institutions, the financial regulator said.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 -South Korea’s economic policy chief said on Thursday he would not rule out direct countermeasures against Japan if Tokyo keeps restrictions on exports of high-tech materials to South Korean companies for a long time.
TEHRAN, Jul 1 - South Korea's Foreign Ministry says the vice foreign minister has summoned the Japanese ambassador to Seoul to demand that Japan withdraw restrictions on exports of materials used in technology products.
TEHRAN, Jun 30 -Japan plans to tighten restrictions on the export of high-tech material used in smartphones and chips to South Korea from July 4 in connection with a dispute over a South Korean ruling on war-time forced labor, the Sankei newspaper reported on Sunday.
TEHRAN, Jun 30 -US President Donald Trump has traveled to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, where he is expecting to meet Kim Jong-un, after making a reportedly impromptu decision during a trip to South Korea to meet with the North Korean leader.