South Korea's ICT ministry said Friday the latest disruption of the Global Positioning System signal, conducted by Pyongyang, has affected 110 planes and ships. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said the disruption affected 58 airplanes and 52 vessels in South Korea, although no significant damage has been reported so far.On Thursday, the ministry issued the GPS disruption warning in Seoul, the adjacent city of Incheon, and the surrounding Gyeonggi and Gangwon provinces as North K

South Korea's defense ministry said Friday it has ordered its troops to step up efforts to prevent the outbreak of the Zika virus after the country confirmed its first case in March.The military's move came as a 43-year-old man tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus last month after he traveled to Brazil and confirmed he was bitten by a mosquito during his trip."The government ordered the ministry on Thursday to strengthen efforts to effectively deal with the virus as mosquitoes start to b

Following the recent shutdown of an inter-Korean joint industrial park in North Korea's Gaeseong, an association of South Korean small businesses has been reviewing ways to build an alternative complex near the Chinese border to take advantage of its geographical proximity, its chief said Friday.The Park Geun-hye government in early February shut down the Gaeseong Industrial Complex, just north of the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in response to Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test an

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for dialogue to resolve the "predicament" on the Korean Peninsula during a bilateral summit with South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Washington, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. "The Chinese side stands ready to make efforts in a constructive way to resume dialogue within the framework of the six-party talks," Xi was quoted as telling Park, according to the Xinhua report from Washington. Park and Xi held the summit on the sidelines of a

The number of subscribers to mobile network services in South Korea is set to top a landmark 60 million by the end of 2016, industry sources said Friday, hovering far above the country's population.The outlook came as the number of those with mobile network accounts, including those for wearable devices, reached 59 million as of end-February, according to the latest data compiled by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning.As South Korea's population currently stands around 51.5 million

Obama made the remark after a trilateral summit with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, stressing that security of the three countries is "linked."North Korea was the top issue as Pyongyang has been ratcheting up tensions with threats of attacks, claims of breakthroughs in its nuclear and missile programs and a series of missile launches in defiance of international pressure."We are united in

President Park Geun-hye warned North Korea against staging another provocation as she met Thursday with U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.North Korea is under growing international pressure to drop its nuclear ambitions after it carried out its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 and a long-range rocket launch on Feb. 7.The U.N. Security Council has imposed the toughest-ever sanctions resolution on North Korea that calls for, among other things, the mandatory inspectio