A liberal president’s election in South Korea appears to have kindled a conciliatory mood among North Korean officials.

President Lee Jae-myung seeks renewed inter-Korean engagement, but North Korea’s hostility and closer ties with Russia limit ...

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions remain unwavering, making peaceful reconciliation unlikely. While South Korea’s new ...

Lee is easing tensions with North Korea by reversing his predecessor’s hardline approach. However, with Kim Jong-un ...

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung vowed to restart dormant talks with North Korea and bolster a trilateral partnership with the U.S. and Japan, as he laid out key policy goals for his ...

Lee Jae-myung faces one of the most formidable sets of challenges any South Korean leader has encountered in the past three decades – Trump's tariff threat, nuclear-arm neighbour Kim Jong-un ...

Lee Jae Myung takes on the leadership of South Korea with one of the strongest public mandates in decades – but also facing the daunting task of renegotiating Seoul’s relationship with the US, its ...

Lee's decisive victory in Tuesday's snap election stands to usher in a sea change in Asia's fourth-largest economy, after backlash against a botched attempt at military rule brought down Yoon Suk Yeol ...

Lee has said he would support Trump's moves to restart nuclear diplomacy with Kim Jong Un as part of efforts to engage with North Korea. North Korea hasn't publicly responded to Trump's outreach.

New South Korean President Lee Jae-myung described his victory as the start of the country’s return to normalcy, after winning a tense election that capped off months of political turmoil ...

An exit poll forecast that liberal Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s presidential election on Tuesday after millions of voters took to the polls. The snap election was triggered by conservative leader ...