Новости за 12.02.2017

(ATTN: ADDS details, photo) By Yoo Jee-ho GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Kim Bo-reum captured gold medal in the women's mass start at the ongoing speed skating worlds on Sunday. Kim just beat out Nana Takagi of Japan to

By Yoo Jee-ho GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Kim Bo-reum captured gold medal in the women's mass start at the ongoing speed skating worlds on Sunday. Kim just beat out Nana Takagi of Japan to grab her first career title a

By Yoo Jee-ho GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean teenager Kim Min-seok set a new national junior record at the ongoing speed skating world championships here Sunday. Kim Min-seok finished the men's 1,500m in 1:46.05 at the In

(ATTN: UPDATES with additional suspected case in paras 3-4) SEJONG, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- A fifth foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) case was confirmed at a cow farm in South Korea, the agriculture ministry in Sejong said Sunday, raising concerns over a natio

By Joo Kyung-don PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- Lee Sang-hun, the coach of the South Korean national alpine snowboard team, said Sunday his athletes will perform better as they gain more experience in big international competitions like

PARIS, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- A group of South Korean tourists in Paris were robbed of their train tickets and one passport in what appeared to be a case linked to the recent unrest over alleged police brutality, officials said Sunday. Some 40 Korean

(ATTN: UPDATES with revised information on type of missile) By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea appears to have staged a low-intensity provocation with its test-firing of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), seeking to

(ATTN: UPDATES with JCS's revision on missile type in paras 1-4) By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the East Sea in an apparent provocation to boast its military readin

By Yoo Jee-ho GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- The top international skating official on Sunday kept mum on Russia's participation in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, with the country still under investigation for state-sponsored dopin

(ATTN: CORRECTS result in 11th para; ADDS more info in paras 13, 18-19, photos) By Joo Kyung-don PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's alpine snowboard hopeful Lee Sang-ho was eliminated in the qualification round of a parallel

By Joo Kyung-don PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean snowboarder Kim Sang-kyum said Sunday his ambition to show a good performance in front of his hometown fans may have ruined his race at an International Ski Federation (FIS) c

By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea appears to have staged a low-intensity provocation with its test-firing of a midrange missile, seeking to see how the new U.S. administration will respond while avoiding provoking Washington too

(ATTN: ADDS comments in 6th para, photo; UPDATES with latest results) By Joo Kyung-don PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's alpine snowboard hopeful Lee Sang-ho was eliminated in the qualification round of a parallel giant slal

(ATTN: UPDATES with more details throughout) SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- Special prosecutors plan to question Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Group's de facto leader again over bribery allegations this week, as they accelerate their probe into a corruption scand

(ATTN: UPDATES with government decision in last 4 paras) SEJONG, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- A fifth foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) case was confirmed at a cow farm in South Korea, the agriculture ministry in Sejong said Sunday, raising concerns over a nationwi

SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- Special prosecutors plan to question Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Group's de facto leader, again over bribery allegations this week, as they accelerate their probe into a corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her

SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean economy has been facing heightened internal and external uncertainties on par with those in 2011, when the world was hit hard by the European fiscal crisis, a report said Sunday. "Along with the local pol

(ATTN: ADDS photo; UPDATES with new info in paras 13-17) SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Sunday strongly condemned North Korea's ballistic missile launch, calling it an "explicit and clear" violation of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutio

(ATTN: REWRITES headline and lead, UPDATES throughout with type of missile and JCS briefing details) By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the East Sea in an apparent provocation

(ATTN: ADDS more info in 5th para, details in paras 9-10) By Joo Kyung-don PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's alpine snowboard hopeful Lee Sang-ho was eliminated in the qualification round of a parallel giant slalom (PGS) com

SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's mechanized troops staged a large-scale river crossing drill to highlight their ability to strike the North even under adverse weather conditions, the Army said Sunday. Units of the 11th mechanized division c

SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top steelmaker POSCO said Sunday it will invest 300 billion won (US$260.9 million) in the anode materials business by 2020 as part of its plan to diversify its portfolio. The company said it will make such i

(ATTN: ADDS U.S. military confirmation of missile launch, background in last 4 paras, photo, byline) By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday the United States stands behind Japan "100 percent" in a pr

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Strategic Command confirmed North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch, saying the projectile is believed to be either a medium- or intermediate-range missile. "U.S. Strategic Command systems detected and

SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye and her attorneys are expected to focus on their legal argument and highlight new "information" to get the Constitutional Court to reject the impeachment motion, political observers in Seoul said Sunda