South Korea's export prices fell slightly in May from a month earlier due to the strong won and a drop in oil prices, central bank data showed Friday.In local currency terms, overall export prices fell 1 percent month-on-month in May, according to preliminary data provided by the Bank of Korea. Still, year-on-year, export prices jumped 5.3 percent last month, marking the seventh consecutive month of gains.The dollar came to an average of 1,125.28 won during the month, down 0.7 percent from April

South Korean tech giants are seeking to bolster their after-sales services in the United States to appeal to consumers and narrow the gap with their archrival Apple Inc., industry sources said Friday.Samsung Electronics Co. has been providing what it calls "premium care" services in the US, allowing users to receive various services for monthly pay of $11.99, along with on-site visits by tech experts. (The Korea Herald)While Samsung earlier planned to release similar services in South Korea as w

A comatose American college student released from North Korea this week has severe brain damage and is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness," a doctor was quoted as saying Thursday.Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old University of Virginia student, returned to his Ohio home in a coma earlier this week after spending 17 months in the North on charges of stealing a political propaganda poster. North Korean officials claimed Warmbier fell into a coma in March last year due to botulism and a sleeping

North Korea launched a salvo of anti-ship cruise missiles from its east coast Thursday, South Korea's military said, adding they flew some 200 kilometers before dropping in the East Sea."North Korea fired several unidentified projectiles, assumed to be surface-to-ship cruise missiles, this morning in the direction of the East Sea from the vicinity of Wonsan, Gangwon Province," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. "The flight distance is around 200 km."  (Yonhap)The JCS said the South's military has b

NEW YORK -- The office of UN Secretary-General Antonia Guterres on Sunday rejected Japan's claim that he expressed support for a 2015 deal reached between Seoul and Tokyo over the issue of Japan's wartime sexual slavery.According to press reports, Japan's Foreign Ministry made the claim that Guterres backed the deal, which is deeply unpopular in South Korea, when he met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Italy on Saturday on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of Seven industrialized

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump has been briefed on North Korea's latest missile launch, a White House official said Sunday."The United States government is aware. The president has been briefed," the unidentified National Security Council official said, according to White House pool reports.President Donald Trump (Yonhap)South Korea's military said the North fired what appeared to be a Scud-type missile off its east coast and the missile flew about 450 kilometers before landing in the E

The suspected hijacking of a fishing vessel carrying South Koreans in the Indian Ocean on Saturday turned out to be a false alarm, Seoul's foreign ministry said.The ministry said earlier that a 234-ton Mongolian-flagged squid fishing vessel was apparently hijacked by what was thought to be a pirate ship in waters 1,400 kilometers southeast of Salalah, Oman, at around 12:20 a.m. Saturday (Seoul time).  The Navy`s 4,400-ton destroyer Daejoyoung carrying the 24th batch of the 300-strong Cheonghae U

New road construction and other upgrades are under way at North Korea's long-range rocket launch site, although there is no sign of preparations for a rocket launch or an engine test, a website monitoring the North said Thursday.   Commercial satellite imagery taken of the Sohae Satellite Launching Station "indicate upgrades are in progress at North Korea's main space launch facility, including new road construction throughout the site, new guard or observation positions and excavation near the

Tottenham Hotspur attacker Son Heung-min has broken the single-season goal record for a South Korean in European football after grabbing a brace against Leicester City.Son scored twice in Tottenham's 6-1 over Leicester City in their English Premier League match at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, Britain, on Thursday (local time). Son now has 21 goals in all competitions this season, surpassing the previous record for a South Korean player in Europe held by Cha Bum-kun. Cha scored 19 goals d

A US senator plans to introduce a bill this week that calls for significantly beefing up ground-based missile interceptors in the United States to better defend against North Korea, according to a news report Sunday.Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) will bring in the legislation that asks for adding an additional 28 Ground-Based Interceptors in Alaska and California, the Hill reported, citing unidentified Senate staffers. The US currently has 30 interceptors, four in California and the rest in Alaska, an

North Korea's latest missile launch demonstrated the communist nation may be not only capable of reliably striking the US base in Guam but has made huge strides in developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, a US expert said Sunday.John Schilling, an aerospace expert known for his expertise on North Korea's missile program, gave the assessment in a report carried by 38 North, saying the launch represents a "level of performance never before seen from a North Korean missile.""The missile wo

The UN Security Council will meet this week to discuss responses to North Korea's latest missile launch, news reports said Sunday.The United States and Japan requested an urgent session on the North's missile launch, and Uruguay, which holds this month's Security Council, decided to hold a meeting Tuesday, the reports said.(Yonhap)"There are no excuses that justify North Korea's actions. This was close to home for Russia. China can't expect dialogue. This threat is real," US Ambassador to the UN

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed North Korea's latest missile launch, saying Sunday that such a provocative act "is not a way to sit down" for negotiations that the communist nation wants.Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Haley also said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to be in a "state of paranoia" and the latest missile launch is believed to be aimed at sending a message to South Korea after the election of new President Moon Jae-in.Haley also said the United S

North Korea said Monday it has successfully tested-fired a new mid- and long-range ballistic missile that can carry a large nuclear warhead, claiming that the US mainland is within its striking range.North Korea said that a "large-size heavy nuclear warhead" can be fit on its new ground-to-ground missile, in its threat to launch a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting the United States.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observed the launch of the rocket, called

WASHINGTON -- The United States should say clearly to China that it should press North Korea hard enough to even cause the regime to collapse or see the US take those measures, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.Rice said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that the North has made big strides in its pursuit of a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the US, and that the key to the problem lies with China.(Yonhap)"In order to deal with that, you have to c