When she took the stage to perform at Carnegie Hall in front of 107 Korean War veterans, the singer Kim Insoon was thinking of her father, an American soldier stationed in South Korea during the postwar decades whom she had never met or even seen. “You are my fathers,” she
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Japan to face North Korea in back-to-back FIFA World Cup qualifiers
Even with the top continental ranking and players of vast international experience, Hajime Moriyasu’s Japan squad faces a journey into the unknown in back-to-back World Cup qualifiers against North Korea. Asian qualifying resumes Thursday with Japan hosting North Korea in Tokyo. Five days later, Japan will be playing in Pyongyang
South Korea launches legal action to force striking doctors back to work
A medical worker walks to enter Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption toggle caption Ahn Young-joon/AP A medical worker walks to enter Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Ahn Young-joon/AP SEOUL, South Korea —
How a Tiny Brazilian Soccer Team Fooled North Korea
Everyone seems to have a slightly different estimate of how many people were outside the stadium on that strange November afternoon, but the consensus is that it was a lot. As the bus crept through the crowd, the Brazilian footballers on board stared out of the windows. Locals — tens
An Altercation Over Table Tennis Rocked the South Korea Soccer Team
The physical altercation that left Tottenham Hotspur and South Korea captain Son Heung-min with a dislocated finger had been a good few weeks in the making. The South Korea camp for the Asian Cup played in Qatar over the past month or so had been far from harmonious, with splits
As North Korea launches missiles and artillery, this island's residents are terrified
Loudspeakers in a village of Yeonpyeong island, near the Northern Limit Line sea boundary with North Korea, on Jan. 6, a day after North Korean shelling. North Korea fired an artillery barrage near two South Korean border islands on Jan. 5, Seoul’s defense ministry said, prompting a live-fire drill by
‘The Breaking Ice’ Review: Desire on the Border of China and North Korea
In “The Breaking Ice,” a new film written and directed by Anthony Chen, three lost 20-somethings find one another in a liminal world. The movie takes place in Yanji, a Chinese city bordering North Korea, where two languages and cultures mix in the shadows of snow-blanketed mountains. In this icy
North Korea launches ballistic missile, thought capable of hitting distant US bases
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, inspects as he tours munitions factories in North Korea on Jan. 8-9, 2024. AP hide caption toggle caption AP In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,
South Korea says the North has again fired artillery shells near their sea border
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a year-end plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, which was held between Dec. 26 and Dec. 30 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File
North and South Korea conduct provocative military drills along their sea boundary
A South Korean tank fires during exercises at the Northwest Islands area of South Korea on Friday. South Korea Defense Ministry via AP hide caption toggle caption South Korea Defense Ministry via AP A South Korean tank fires during exercises at the Northwest Islands area of South Korea on Friday.