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Prime minister calls for systematic terror response system

Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said Friday that no single government agency can cope with terror threats alone at a time when new types of threats continue to emerge.

2026.5.15

President Lee Jae Myung chairs a Cabinet meeting at the Blue House in central Seoul on Jan. 20. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Gov't designates 2024 knife attack on Lee as case of terrorism

The government on Tuesday formally designated a 2024 knife attack on President Lee Jae Myung while he was serving as opposition leader an terror case, the prime minister's office said.

2026.1.20

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A bus runs on a road in Bamako, the capital of Mali, Oct. 28. [XINHUA/YONHAP]

Korea plans travel ban on Mali over terrorist activities

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday it is planning to impose a travel ban on Mali over increased terrorist activities in the African nation.

2025.11.2

Police officers work at the entrance to an electrical substation in London on March 22. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

UK police arrest five men, including four Iranians, over suspected terror plot

Britain's counter-terrorism police arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, on suspicion of terrorism offences over a plot to target a specific premises, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement on Sunday.

2025.5.4

The State Department in Washington [YONHAP]

U.S. keeps North Korea on list of state sponsors of terrorism

The United States has kept North Korea on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, an annual State Department report showed Thursday, noting the reclusive regime repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism.

2024.12.13

North Korean soldiers monitor the Joint Security Area on the inter-Korean border on April 16. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

South Korea raises terror alert for five diplomatic missions over North Korean threat

South Korea raised the antiterrorism alert level two notches to the second-highest level, "alert," from the lowest level "attention," for five Korean diplomatic missions abroad on Thursday.

2024.5.2

People Power Party Rep. Bae Hyun-jin in a meeting at the National Assembly in this file photo dated July 11, 2022. [NEWS1]

Assaulted PPP lawmaker says attack 'should not happen to anyone else'

People Power Party lawmaker Bae Hyun-jin said the attack she suffered “should not happen to anyone else," alluding to a series of attacks on politicians in Korea in the months leading up to the general election...

2024.1.28

The flags of Israel and Korea held by participants of a rally in Seoul on Tuesday in support of Israel in the wake of the Hamas militant group's attack on Israel and the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. [NEWS1]

Hundreds rally in Seoul to support Israel as ground war looms

Hundreds of Koreans and Israelis in Korea rallied to support Israel in Seoul on Tuesday as top diplomats from Israel and the United States stood side-by-side to voice support for the Jewish state in the wake of Hamas's brutal attack on Oct. 7…

2023.10.17

A military parade in Pyonyang on Sept. 8 [NEWS1]

North could replicate Hamas's strategy to attack South

North Korea experts in Seoul said the large-scale surprise attack by Hamas militants on Israel over the weekend is a strategy that Pyongyang may also deploy against Seoul, combining traditional warfare with modern guerrilla tactics to wrongfoot...

2023.10.9

A man arrested for posting a message online to kill at least 20 women in Sillim-dong, Seoul, is being led into a hearing at a court in Incheon for his arrest warrant on Aug. 22. [YONHAP]

Legal blind spot complicates punishment of online threats

The dearth of specific laws to punish the making of threats online has left the authorities in the lurch, even after arresting hundreds of suspects for threatening to go on stabbing rampages…

2023.9.1