THE country said it has started removing loudspeakers used to blare K-pop and news reports into the North, as a new administration in Seoul tries to ease tensions with its bellicose neighbour.

This kind of attitude is more fitting in a one-party state, like North Korea or China, where the communist party monopolizes power. In South Korea, by contrast, a multiparty system is enshrined in the ...

“Starting today, the military has begun removing the loudspeakers,” South Korean Ministry of National Defense spokesman Lee ...

SEOUL: South Korean authorities began removing on Monday loudspeakers blaring anti-North Korea broadcasts along the country’s ...

Goodwill alone is insufficient. A durable policy framework with clear goals and strategies — shielded from political swings — ...

The author imagines a conversation between the presidents of the United States and South Korea at their upcoming summit that ...

South Korea has started to dismantle loudspeakers along the border with North Korea that broadcast anti-Pyongyang messaging. The move was initiated by the new Lee Jae Myung administration in Seoul as ...

President Lee Jae-myung’s government considers constitutional revision to strengthen political accountability and improve the ...

The speakers had previously been used to blast anti-North Korean propaganda across the border, but the South’s new liberal government halted the broadcasts in June in a conciliatory gesture as it ...

The removal of the speakers marks a change in Seoul’s stance under President Lee, who took power after early elections, succeeding the ousted Yun. Lee has pledged to restore diplomatic rapprochement ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s popularity rose after a last-minute trade deal with the US. Lee’s approval climbed to 63.3 percent from 61.5 percent last week, according to a Realmeter survey ...

The nations, still technically at war, had already halted propaganda broadcasts along the demilitarized zone, Seoul's ...