North Korea's two failed missile tests earlier this month could have involved the KN-08 intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the continental US, not the shorter-range Musudan missile identified by the US and South Korean militaries, an American expert was quoted as saying.Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert and director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, raised the possibility, citing satellite photos of the l

North Korea Oct. 27, 2016

North Korea will be the "most intractable" issue for the next US president, a former Swedish prime minister said, calling for greater efforts to enlist China's help in reining in the recalcitrant regime.Carl Bildt, who served as Sweden's prime minister from 1991 to 1994 and as foreign minister from 2006 to 2014, made the remark in a recent article to the Project Syndicate, warning that Pyongyang is "slowly but surely progressing toward a deliverable nuclear weapon.""While the crisis in Syria may

North Korea Oct. 27, 2016

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Podcast Oct. 26, 2016

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한국어판 Oct. 26, 2016

South Korea's passenger car exports slumped 17.4 percent in the third quarter of 2016 from a year earlier due mainly to contracted world demand and partial strikes at local carmakers, customs data showed Wednesday.The total value of exported vehicles reached $7.23 billion in the July-September period, down from $8.76 billion a year earlier, according to the data compiled by the Korea Customs Service.Local carmakers led by No. 1 Hyundai Motor Co. shipped out 515,000 cars in the three-month period

Mobility Oct. 26, 2016

South Korea ranked fifth in terms of business environment among 190 countries this year thanks to high scores in electricity supply and legal settlement and administrative systems for starting a business and taxation, a report by the World Bank showed Wednesday (Korean time).According to the organization's annual "Doing Business 2017" ranking report, the country received 84.07 points in total, slightly up from the previous year's 83.88, but fell one notch from a year earlier.Every year, the Worl

Oct. 26, 2016

South Korea's national debt ratio remains lower than advanced nations' ratios, but it is not that low when its aging population and income level are taken into account, a report said Wednesday.The National Assembly Budget Office said in the report that Seoul thus needs to step up efforts to bolster its fiscal soundness as its national debt has been rising at a much faster clip in the 2010s than countries in Southern Europe that suffered a debt crisis.According to the report, South Korea's ratio

Oct. 26, 2016

The head of South Korea's central bank called Wednesday for consistent corporate restructuring in financially troubled industries to help put them back on track."The government should consistently push forward restructuring in close consultation with subjected industries according to market rules," Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol said in a meeting with several economists at the bank's headquarters in central Seoul. Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol speaks during a meeting with economists in

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