Korean Air Boeing plane bound for Taiwan makes emergency landing after plummeting 7,600 metres
A Korean Air flight bound for Taiwan had to turn back and make an emergency landing after detecting a fault with the aircraft’s pressurisation system.
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US No 2 envoy claims Moscow-Pyongyang pact has left Beijing ‘somewhat anxious’
The No 2 envoy in US President Joe Biden’s administration said on Monday that Beijing was “somewhat anxious” over growing military cooperation between Russia and North Korea.
Putin’s high-risk North Korea gambit
The Russian president’s trip to North Korea alters global calculations, spreading instability worldwide. Even China may now be interested in distancing itself from him.
18 Chinese among 22 dead in South Korea battery plant fire
A powerful explosion set on fire a lithium battery factory in South Korea on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, local fire officials said.
Japan and South Korea Are Fighting Over an App at a Tense Time
A joint venture set up in 2019 by two top Japanese and South Korean companies was hailed as a beacon of cooperation amid strained diplomatic relations.
U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea for military drills
SEOUL (Reuters) -- A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevelt, arrived in the South Korean port city of Busan on Saturday to take part in joint military exercises later this month with the host nation and Japan, naval officials said.
Change in wind direction prompts worry about more North Korean trash balloon launches toward South
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is monitoring an expected change in the wind direction on Monday that could allow North Korea to send more trash-carrying balloons across their heavily armed border, in their latest bout of tit-for-tat psychological warfare.
China is watching warily as Putin and Kim forge new ‘alliance’
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