Seoul, April 6 (IANS) North Korea appears to be accelerating efforts to cast leader Kim Jong-un’s daughter Ju-ae as his successor, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Monday, citing the recent public appearance that showed her driving a new battle tank with her father. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) made the assessment during a closed-door briefing to the parliamentary intelligence committee, according to Reps. Park Sun-won of the Democratic Party and Lee Seong-kweun of the People P…
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Seoul, April 6 (IANS) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday expressed regret over drone flights by individuals into North Korea, saying that such behaviour has caused unnecessary military tension with Pyongyang.Lee made the remarks during a Cabinet meeting, after prosecutors last week indicted three individuals accused of flying drones into North Korea between September and January.Those indicted include a graduate student in his 30s, an employee of the National Intelligence Service and…
Seoul, Feb 10 (IANS) South Korean investigators on Tuesday raided the spy agency and a military intelligence command while booking three military officers as suspects over suspicions related to alleged drone flights to North Korea, officials said.A joint team of police and military investigators carried out searches and seizures at the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the Defence Intelligence Command and 16 other locations, including the suspects’ homes and offices, as part of the investigat…
Seoul, Feb 7 (IANS) Harold Rogers, interim CEO of Coupang, returned early on Saturday after a 14-hour police questioning over allegations he committed perjury while testifying before the South Korean parliament in December.Rogers is accused of lying under oath during a parliamentary hearing from Dec. 30-31 on Coupang’s massive data breach that has affected more than 33 million customers in South Korea, reports Yonhap news agency.He told lawmakers that Coupang conducted its own probe into a Chine…
Seoul, Feb 6 (IANS) The interim chief executive of Coupang, Harold Rogers, was set to undergo police questioning on Friday over perjury allegations related to his testimony to lawmakers last year, marking his second appearance before investigators in a week.Police seek to question Rogers about allegations that he gave false testimony under oath about Coupang’s internal investigation into its massive data breach during a two-day parliamentary hearing on the leak in late December, reports Yonhap n…
Yeongjongdo, Jan 23 (IANS) A group of 73 South Koreans detained in Cambodia over alleged involvement in online scam operations was forcibly returned home Friday to face investigation.A chartered Korean Air flight arrived at Incheon International Airport at 9:41 a.m. after departing from Phnom Penh, marking the nation’s largest repatriation of criminal suspects from a single country.The suspects had been detained in Cambodia after a joint investigation between South Korean and Cambodian police, a…
Seoul, Jan 22 (IANS) Seventy-three South Korean nationals who have been detained in Cambodia over alleged involvement in scam crimes will be forcibly returned home for investigation, Cheong Wa Dae said on Thursday.A chartered flight will depart from Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, at 8:45 p.m. and return at 9:10 a.m. on Friday carrying the suspects, presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung told reporters.The suspects were detained in Cambodia by a joint investigation team and are acc…
Seoul, Dec 29 (IANS) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung made his first commute to work at Cheong Wa Dae on Monday, following the formal relocation of the presidential office to the historic compound about seven months after he took office.A motorcade escorting Lee’s vehicle passed through the front gate of the main building at around 9:10 a.m. as dozens of his supporters waved the national flag and shouted his name near the entrance to the compound, Yonhap news agency reported.At Cheong Wa Dae…
Seoul, Dec 26 (IANS) South Korea’s unification ministry said Friday it is in talks with related government agencies to review measures to allow public access to the Rodong Sinmun, the main newspaper of North Korea’s ruling Worker’s Party, and other North Korean materials. In South Korea, public access to North Korean media and publications, including the Rodong Sinmun, is denied as they are classified as “special materials” due to concerns that they include content praising and promoting North K…