China is defending its trade practices with North Korea after Chinese-made vehicles were seen carrying ballistic missiles during a military parade despite international sanctions against selling military hardware to Pyongyang. Photos provided by the North Korean government showed the submarine-launched missiles loaded aboard trucks bearing the logo of Sinotruk, a Chinese company.In this Saturday photo distributed by the North Korean government, Polaris submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM

US President Donald Trump has agreed to visit China "at an early date" in a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Beijing's official news agency reported Friday.In their first summit talks that opened in Florida earlier in the day, Xi extended an invitation for Trump to visit China.Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump in their meeting in Floria, the U.S., on April 6, 2017. (AFP-Yonhap)Trump accepted the invitation "with pleasure," and hoped to make the

South Korea said Friday that it has called for close cooperation with its regional partners to thwart a recurrence of the terrorist attack that killed the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.South Korean envoy Lim Jung-taek made the case at the meeting on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes hosted by the ASEAN Regional Forum in Indonesia that ended on Friday. The file photo taken at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 31, 2017, shows a coffin with corpse of N

North Korea said Monday it has decided to expel the Malaysian ambassador to Pyongyang in a deepening row over the killing of the half-brother of the North's leader Kim Jong-un. The North's official KCNA news agency said Pyongyang designated the Malaysian envoy as "persona non grata" and ordered the envoy to leave the country within 48 hours from 10 a.m. on Sunday. The report came shortly after the North's ambassador to Malaysia was heading home after being expelled from the Southeast Asian count

French retailer Carrefour's 12 stores in the Chinese capital of Beijing appears to have halted their purchase of South Korean dairy products, two officials at local distributors of the Korean goods said Monday. The reason why the Carrefour stores in Beijing have suspended their purchase of Korean dairy products is unknown, but it came as China is stepping up its retaliatory measures against South Korea's decision to install an advanced U.S. missile defense system, or THAAD. This undated Yonhap N

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- North Korea's expelled ambassador fired a final salvo at Malaysia Monday over its probe into the assassination of the half-brother of Pyongyang's leader, describing the investigation as biased.Speaking at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before his flight was due to leave, ambassador Kang Chol disparaged what he called a "pretargeted investigation by the Malaysian police." North Korean Ambassador to Malaysia Kang Chol, second from right, arrives at Kuala Lumpur Internatio

Japan's Toshiba Corp. has informed SK hynix Inc. of its new plan to sell stakes in its memory chip business, the South Korean company said Monday.SK hynix submitted a non-binding bid last month to acquire a stake in Toshiba's chip business. The logo of SK hynix (Yonhap)In a regulatory filing, SK hynix said it will make an announcement when it decides to make a final bid. In January, Toshiba said it would sell a roughly 20 percent stake in its memory operations as it struggles with multibillion d

미래에셋그룹 박현주 회장이 자사의 임직원들에게 미국 출장길에 오르며 쓴 서신에 “미국비행기 스튜어디스는 할머니 스타일”이라는 발언을 했다.박 회장은 LA를 출발해 미네소타, 뉴욕을 거쳐 브라질로 가는 출장길에 쓴 서신의 말미에 “고소공포증이 조금 있기에 저는 비행기가 심하게 흔들릴 때마다 순간 심쿵하곤 합니다”라고 하면서 “어차피 미국 비행기에는 스튜어디스들이 할머니 스타일이니 눈 감아도 뭐 상관없습니다만…ㅎㅎㅎ”라고 썼다. 뉴욕에서 증권시황 모니터 중인 박현주 회장 (사진=온라인커뮤니티)한편, 서신에서 박 회장은 임직원들을 향한 응원 메시지와 현 경제 상황, 그리고 앞으로의 포부를 자세하게 밝혔다.박 회장은 지난 2015년 3월 이후 2년만에 처음으로 임직원 모두에게 서신을 띄운 것이며 그의 신년사는 매년 1월 나온다. 해당 편지는 2일 아침에 발송된것으로 알려졌으며 박 회장의 정확한 출국 일자와 편명은 확인되지 않았다.다음은 박 회장이 임직원들에게 보낸 서신 전문이다.사랑하는 미

SAPPORO (Yonhap) -- Figure skater Choi Da-bin won the women's short program at the Asian Winter Games here Thursday.Choi scored 61.30 points to lead the pack of 24 skaters at Makomanai Indoor Skating Rink. Rika Hongo of Japan was in second place with 60.98 points, followed by Zhao Ziquan of China at 58.90 points.The free skate is set for Saturday. Choi Da-bin (Yonhap)Choi was a last-minute injury replacement for Park So-youn, who withdrew with an ankle injury. The 17-year-old is fresh off a fift

Samsung Group appears to be planning to abolish the group's key future strategy office as early as next month, a group official said Thursday, after the special prosecution team concludes its probe into a presidential influence-peddling scandal. Samsung's de facto leader Lee Jae-yong was arrested last Friday over his alleged role in the scandal, which led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.  (Yonhap)During a parliamentary hearing last December, Lee told lawmakers that he would abolish

PYONGYANG (AP) -- North Korea has been getting some pretty high praise lately from the stoner world. Marijuana news outlets including High Times, Merry Jane and Green Rush -- along with British tabloids, which always love a good yarn -- are hailing the North as a pothead paradise and maybe even the next Amsterdam of pot tourism. They've reported North Korean marijuana to be legal, abundant and mind-blowingly cheap, sold openly to Chinese and Russian tourists at a major market on the North's bord

BERLIN (AFP) -- Germany took in 280,000 asylum seekers in 2016, about one third of the previous year's record figure, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday.At the height of the huge refugee and migrant influx to Europe in 2015, a total of 890,000 people came seeking safe haven in the EU's top economy.The migration office said that it received about 745,000 asylum requests in 2016 from people who had arrived that year or the year before.Of these, 36 percent were from refugees fro