South Korean President Moon Jae-in has pardoned former President Park Geun-hye, who was serving a 22-year prison term for a vast corruption scandal. The 69-year-old was convicted of abuse of power and coercion in 2018 after she was impeached the previous year. She was her country’s first democratically-elected leader to be forced from office. Park […]
North Korea missile tests North Korea has restored communication lines with the South, months after it cut a cross-border hotline. The move comes days after the country’s leader Kim Jong-un said he was willing to restore communication as a conditional olive branch. However, Pyongyang also said the restoration of their relationship was dependent on […]
A celebrated South Korean climber who lost his fingers to frostbite 30 years ago has gone missing during his descent from a mountain in Pakistan. Kim Hong-bin had just scaled the 26,400ft (8047m) high Broad Peak in the Karakoram mountains before he is thought to have fallen into a crevasse. The climb made the 57-year-old […]
