A South Korean appellate court
on Thursday ordered Japan to compensate a group of 16 women who
were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, overturning a
lower court ruling that dismissed the. -November 23, 2023 at 04:09 am EST
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SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -South Korea authorities evacuated more than 10,000 people and closed schools in flood-hit areas as tropical storm Khanun swept over the peninsula on Thursday, having pounded southern Japan over the past week. Downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm, Khanun made landfall on the southeast coast, and was heading towards the South Korean capital Seoul. Khanun could also strike North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, and state media there reported that the military and the ruli
The United Nations Command and North Korea have begun discussing the case of Travis King, the U.S. soldier who crossed into the North last week, the deputy commander of the U.S.-led command that oversees the Korean War truce said on Monday. King, a U.S. Army private serving in South Korea, sprinted into North Korea on July 18 while on a tour of the Demilitarized Zone on the inter-Korean border, landing Washington in a fresh diplomatic quandary with the nuclear-armed North. Conversations between
By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Indonesia's devastating forest fires in 2019 burned nearly twice as much land as was officially reported, accord.