Korea Times Politics & City Reporter
Jung Min-ho has worked as a staff writer at The Korea Times since 2012, mostly covering social and political issues. He currently belongs to the Politics & City Desk where he covers topics such as health, labor and human rights. Prior to joining the team, he was responsible for covering North Korea and sports. His article about a biosecurity breach of Middle East respiratory syndrome won him an award from the Korea Science Journalists Association in 2016. He is also the co-author of the book, "Medical Pioneers of Korea" (2019). He served as the head of the international relations committee at the Journalists Association of Korea from 2021 to 2023.
Speaking to lawmakers at Monday’s National Assembly audit of government affairs, Gen. Park Jeong-hwan, South Korea’s Army chief of staff, said he will redouble efforts to expedite the development and deployment of a new air defense system against North Korea’s possible imitation of Hamas’ attack on Israel.
Ihn Yo-han, a naturalized Korean physician with four generations of close ties to the country, will lead the effort to reform the governing party, ahead of what is expected to be a defining election for President Yoon Suk Yeol early next year.
Nearly half of South Koreans believe a sudden invasion by North Korea is possible, a recent poll shows.
South Korea’s rejection of joining other countries in condemning Beijing over key human rights issues at the United Nations is drawing criticism, with many activists expressing disappointment over its hollow promise regarding values-based diplomacy.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Kim Seung-kyum, front row center, and U.S. Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Ken Wilsbach, front row fourth from right, pose with other military officers in front of a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber at an air base in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Thursday. During his visit there, Kim issued a warning to North Korea, saying its possible nuclear attack would be met with the allies' overwhelming forces and result in the end of the regime. Courtesy of Joint Chiefs of Staff
After escaping North Korea at 14 in the midst of a catastrophic famine in 1998, Kim Cheol-ok settled down in a small town in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin, where she married a Chinese man and gave birth to a daughter.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in North Korea today for a two-day visit, amid suspicions of arms transfers between the two states and palpable signs of their expanding bilateral ties.
Suzanne Scholte, a renowned U.S. activist promoting North Korean human rights, has joined in with the criticism against Beijing after its forced repatriation of hundreds of North Koreans, comparing the tragedy to what is unfolding in the Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East.
Patriots and Veterans Affairs Minister Park Min-shik has called for a measured response and due process in taking down the “unconstitutional” statue of a communist composer, saying vandalism won’t help achieve the goal.
Human rights activists criticized South Korean government officials, Sunday, after China’s repatriation of hundreds of North Korean escapees last week, saying their unawareness of the move was a serious intelligence failure ― if not a lie.