Mumbai, Oct 15 (IANS) The South Korean embassy will Thursday confer two special honours on Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan here. "The Korean government has decided to confer an honorary belt in ...

Seoul, Aug 22 (DPA) North and South Korea held their first high-level talks in almost two years Saturday amid indications of an easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula. South Korea's Minister of ...

Seoul, Aug 17 (DPA) North Korea said Monday that it would reopen its border to South Korean tourists and would allow reunions of divided families after months of rising tensions between the ...

Seoul, Aug 14 (DPA) The release by North Korea of a South Korean worker is expected to remove one of the irritants that has kept tensions high between the two Koreas. Pyongyang Thursday ...

Seoul, Aug 9 (IANS) South Korean government Sunday reported over 1700 cases of influenza A(H1N1), also known as swine flu, in the country. The country's ministry for health, welfare and family affairs ...

Seoul, Aug 3 (IANS) The South Korean government plans to vaccinate its entire 655,000-strong military personnel against the influenza A (H1N1) virus, also called swine flu, WAM news agency reported Monday. The anti-flu ...

Kathmandu, July 20 (IANS) Nepal's President Ram Baran Yadav and Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal are amongst the top leaders with a new martial feather in their caps. They all have been ...

The South Korean government has warned that tens of thousands of personal computers are set to self destruct starting on Friday. The warning comes after a third consecutive day of cyber attacks against ...

SEOUL (BNO NEWS) -- Ten of thousands of virus-contaminated personal computers in South Korea are programmed to "self-destruct" on Friday, government officials warn. The warning comes after a third consecutive day of cyber ...

Washington, July 9 (ANI): North Korea is suspected of launching an unprecedented large cyber-attack this past weekend against South Korea and a smaller number of US government web sites. The Internet attacks ...

Washington, July 9 (DPA) The US believes North Korea was responsible for a massive cyber attack on government and other websites during the past week, Fox News reported Wednesday. An unnamed US defence ...

NEW YORK CITY (BNO NEWS) -- The website of the New York Stock Exchange has been the subject of a cyber attack, a spokesman said on Wednesday. "NYSE Euronext has been informed by ...

Information technology experts in the US are still attempting to repair damage caused to key government computer systems, including the Pentagon and the National Security Agency, by internet hackers on July 4. The ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, May 31 (IANS) India is hoping that two Indian sailors will be allowed to leave South Korea "very quickly" after being held in the southeast Asian country for ...

Seoul, May 25 (IANS) The underground nuclear test conducted by North Korea Monday received fierce criticism from its neighbours Japan and South Korea, who called for an emergency session of the UN ...

The South Korean government has called an emergency meeting of its cabinet in response to a nuclear weapons test by neighboring North Korea. The Japanese government has also established a crisis task ...

Seoul, May 25 (Xinhua) North Korea appeared to have test-fired a short-range missile Monday after it conducted a nuclear test, a media report said. The 130 km-range missile was fired from its ...

Pyong Yang (North Korea), May 25 (ANI): The North Korean Government on Monday formally announced that it had conducted a second nuclear test, an event that is likely to invite strong criticism ...

Seoul, May 25 (DPA) North Korea said Monday it "successfully" conducted a nuclear test, following up on earlier threats issued after the UN Security Council criticised a rocket launch by the Stalinist ...

Seoul, April 19 (Xinhua) The South Korean government Sunday said that it has decided to accept Pyongyang's offer for holding inter-Korean talks next week. It will be the first governmental talks between South ...

Seoul, Apr.14 (ANI): The South Korean government has for first time officially admitted that the rocket fired by the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) last week followed the trajectory of a ...

Tokyo, Mar.26 (ANI): The North Korean Government is likely to use the two American journalists it has detained as bargaining chips in its feuds with the outside world, analysts and politicians in ...

Sana'a (Yemen), March 18 (DPA) A group of South Korean government officials and relatives of victims of a suicide bombing in Yemen narrowly escaped an attack themselves Wednesday in the Middle Eastern ...

Seoul, March 8 (IANS) South Korea has signed an agreement with Indonesia to produce wood pellets that are cheaper and cleaner to burn than fossil fuels, WAM reported. Korea forest service and Indonesian ...

Pyongyang, Jan 30 (Xinhua) North Korea has scrapped all political and military agreements with South Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported Friday. It denounced the South Korean government for pushing the ...

New York, Jan 8 (ANI): A group of former prostitutes in South Korea have accused some of their countrys former leaders of encouraging them to have sex with American soldiers who ...

Moscow, Dec 1 (RIA Novosti) North Korea Monday enforced restrictions on cross-border movement with South Korea and suspended rail link in protest against Seoul's "hostile policies".The measures were announced a week ...

Seoul, Nov.24 (ANI): South Korea on Monday expressed "serious regret" over North Korea''s decision to restrict inter-Korean economic cooperation programs. North Korea announced early in the day that it will suspend ...

Moscow, Nov 3 (RIA Novosti) The South Korean government said Monday that the latest photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il released by Pyongyang do not prove he is in good health. ...

Seoul, Oct 28 (DPA) North Korea's military Tuesday threatened the destruction of its southern neighbour, accusing South Korea of planning a military strike against the Pyongyang regime, a media report said.At the ...