The Korean Embassy in Havana, Cuba, has been officially opened 11 months after both countries forged formal relations in February last year. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul on Jan. 19 said ...

South Korea and Cuba made the surprise announcement Feb. 14 last year on the establishment of diplomatic relations, in an apparent heavy blow to North Korea that has touted its "brotherly" ties ...

Opening the embassy represented a unique challenge due to Cuba’s longstanding close ties with North Korea. "The government expects that the opening of the embassy in Cuba will enhance the ...

Diplomatic ties between South Korea and Cuba had been broken since 1959, mainly due to the long-standing alliance between the Caribbean country and North Korea. However, in February in 2024 ...

SEOUL-North Korea condemned on Jan 17 joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by exercising its right to self-defence “more ...

Cuban officials on Thursday freed a prominent opposition activist, a last-minute diplomatic change in fortunes for the Biden administration which had sought his release but long seemed unable to ...

Of those dispatched to the region, an estimated 300 North Korean soldiers in Russia have died and over 2,700 have been wounded, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service’s ...

A move by South Korean opposition leaders to launch an independent probe of embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over Seoul’s use of loudspeaker broadcasts into North Korea is raising questions ...

Dariel Cruz García was among the first to be released by the Cuban government after the Vatican-brokered deal Cuba has started to release the first of hundreds of prisoners it agreed to free ...

South Korea has rejected a characterization of North Korea as a "nuclear power" by President-elect Donald Trump's defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. Newsweek reached out to the North Korean ...

Jack Gruber Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Just a day after President Joe Biden took Cuba off the list of nations that sponsor terrorism in exchange for the release of political ...

Open Doors International's annual World Watch List identifies North Korea as the country where Christians are most persecuted on earth. Other countries in Asia such as Pakistan, India, Myanmar and ...