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Korea, U.S. must compromise after inconclusive talks (KOR)

Inconclusive talks exposed growing divisions over investment, Hormuz support and security cooperation, underscoring the need for practical compromise.

2026.9.21

Korea, U.S. must compromise after inconclusive talks

Inconclusive talks exposed growing divisions over investment, Hormuz support and security cooperation, underscoring the need for practical compromise.

2026.9.20

Top envoys of South Korea, Vietnam agree to mitigate tariff ripple effects

The foreign ministers of Korea and Vietnam met in Hanoi to discuss coordination to mitigate the effects of U.S. tariffs considering the interconnected nature of the two Asian economies.

2025.4.16

Parts of an unidentified missile, which Ukrainian authorities believe was made in North Korea and used in a strike in Kharkiv earlier this week, on Jan. 6 [REUTERS/YONHAP]

Foreign ministers condemn North Korea's missile transfer to Russia

The foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States, Japan and 45 other countries condemned North Korea’s transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia and their use in the latter's ongoing aggression against Ukraine in a joint statement on...

2024.1.10

From left, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi enters a meeting room at Nurimaru APEC House in Haeundae, Busan, on Sunday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Top diplomats of Korea, China and Japan meet for first time in four years

The meeting in Busan took place amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula over North Korea’s recent launch of a reconnaissance satellite as well as the alleged arms deals between Pyongyang and Moscow.

2023.11.26

Korean Ambassador to China Chung Jae-ho in August 2023. [YONHAP]

Korea, China, Japan negotiating to convene long-awaited foreign ministers' meeting

Should the foreign ministers meet, it would be the first meeting of its kind since December 2019, when it was held in Chengdu, China.

2023.11.6

Cleverly's Asia tour

Foreign Minister Park Jin, right, shakes hands with the U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly at the ministry headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday. Cleverly visited Seoul as part of his first Asia tour in office, which includes stops in Japan and...

2022.9.28

Foreign Minister Park Jin, right, and his Japanese counterpart, Yoshimasa Hayashi, bump elbows during a meeting at a hotel in New York on Monday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Korean, Japanese diplomats hold bilateral meeting in New York

The top diplomats of Korea and Japan had a bilateral meeting in New York on Monday, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said amid reports that the leaders of the neighboring countries may hold summit talks on the sidelines of an annual UN General Assembly...

2022.9.20

Korea's Foreign Minister Park Jin, far left, speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, far right, in Qingdao, Shandong Province, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Park tries to assuage Wang on chips in Qingdao

If Korea meets with the United States to discuss semiconductors, it is not meant to isolate any specific country, Foreign Minister Park Jin told China's top envoy Wang Yi on Tuesday. “Minister Park made it clear that the recent decision by...

2022.8.10

Foreign Minister Park Jin, top and bottom right, in a video conference call with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, bottom left, on May 16. [NEWS1]

Korea, China's top envoys may be getting together

Foreign Minister Park Jin may be meeting China's top envoy Wang Yi at the G20 foreign ministerial summit in Indonesia this week. Such a meeting would be the first since Korea sworn in its conservative government led by Yoon Suk-yeol two months...

2022.7.6