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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