China has been ramping up its opposition to South Korea's plan to deploy a U.S. advanced missile defense system on its soil, with some of its scholars even raising a possibility that it could end up hurting their alliance in coping with the nuclear and missile threats from Pyongyang.In a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday with six first-term lawmakers from the major opposition Minjoo Party of Korea, Chinese scholars were united in expressing strong objections to the planned deployment of the Terminal

South Korea and Japan made "significant" progress in their talks to draw up followup measures related to a foundation recently launched to help the Korean women sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during its colonial rule decades ago, a government source said Tuesday. The headway was made during a meeting held in Seoul between Chung Byung-won, director-general of the South Korean foreign ministry’s Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau, and his Japanese counterpart, Kenji Kanasugi, according to the so

South Korea Tuesday strongly condemned a recent suicide bombing in Pakistan that left over 70 people dead, vowing to maintain its global cooperation in eradicating terrorism.On Monday, a man wearing a bomb jacket blew himself up among people who gathered outside a hospital at Quetta located in the southwestern part of Pakistan. Local media reports said that 71 people have been confirmed dead with over 100 others injured."We cannot but express our shock and concern over the terror attack that hap

South Korea's military officials and civilian experts have participated in an annual Asia-Pacific mission designed to jointly work on preparing for natural disasters, the U.S. Pacific Command said Tuesday.More than 900 military and civilian teams from 14 countries are now taking part in this year's Pacific Partnership mission, the military command said in a telephone press briefing from Malaysia.It said the nations taking part in the talks have discussed ways to improve the ability of partner na

Japan's prime minister should meet South Korean women who were sexually enslaved during the colonial rule period, which will help cap the long-festering wound that has weighed down bilateral relations for the past seven decades, the head of a local foundation tasked with helping victims said."The establishment of the foundation can lay to rest the 'sexual slavery' issue, but it is not the end of the agenda," Kim Tae-hyun, the first board director of the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation, sai

South Korea and Japan will hold a meeting this week to discuss follow-up measures related to a foundation launched to help Korean women sexually abused by Japan during its colonial rule of the peninsula decades ago, the foreign ministry said Monday.The meeting will be held in Seoul on Tuesday between Chung Byung-won, director-general of the South Korean foreign ministry's Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau, and his Japanese counterpart, Kenji Kanasugi, according to the ministry. The meeting will mar

A group of lawmakers from the main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea visited China on Monday for talks with Chinese officials and scholars over the planned deployment of an advanced U.S. anti-missile system to South Korea, a major thorn in the relations between Seoul and Beijing.The six first-term MPK lawmakers brushed off intense opposition from the presidential office, ruling party and even those within their own party ranks who warned their visit would worsen the division among South Koreans o

Six first-term lawmakers of South Korea's main opposition party will visit China this week despite an open appeal from the presidential office to reconsider the trip, a party spokesman said Sunday.The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae issued a statement earlier in the day urging the lawmakers of the Minjoo Party of Korea to cancel the trip scheduled for Monday through Wednesday.The group, led by Rep. Kim Young-ho, plans to meet with Chinese Communist Party officials and academics to hear their v