North Korea is likely to see its first test of the KN-08 or KN-14 intercontinental ballistic missile end in failure as the missiles have never been flight-tested, a US expert said, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in his New Year's Day address that the country has entered the final stage of preparations to test-fire an ICBM, an apparent threat he's perfecting capabilities to deliver nuclear warheads to the US. Kim Jong-un delivers a speech during the 7th Congress of the Workers` Party of Kor

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he hopes Donald Trump will shift course on global warming and ``understand the seriousness and urgency'' of addressing the problem. "As president of the United States I'm sure that he will understand this, he will listen and he will evaluate his campaign remarks,'' Ban said Tuesday.  Trump has called global warming a "hoax'' on social media and pledged during his campaign to "cancel'' the landmark Paris climate agreement adopted last year. Speaking to repo

A move to impose a monthly “pet charge”  on pet-owning households in a housing complex has stirred up a controversy among neighbors as well as netizens. Since August, a multi-buliding residential complex in Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province has been charging 10 households that have pets an extra 7,200 won ($6.2) on top of the monthly house maintenance fee that covers electricity, heating, parking lot maintenance and etc.  It is part of a new anti-pet policy decided by the council of residents. Under

Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Friday urged local authorities to pay particular attention to safety in regards to the planned protest slated for the weekend over the scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye's confidante."We'd like to urge participants to show a mature sense of citizenship," Hwang said.Thousands of citizens are anticipated to take to the streets in downtown Seoul on Saturday, demanding Park's resignation from office. The organizers are predicting 50,000 participants will join

South Korean prosecutors have raided the homes and offices of presidential aides amid a growing public uproar over an unprecedented corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her close confidante. Cheong Wa Dae. Yonhap   On Saturday morning, prosecutors confiscated desktop computers and documents from the homes and offices of former and current presidential aides as part of the investigation into the influence-peddling scandal involving Park's longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil.