SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea, which has largely kept its borders shuttered over the pandemic, Thursday confirmed its first detection of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in the country. According to the official Korea Central News Agency, samples were taken from a group of people in the capital, Pyongyang, on Sunday. A rigorous genetic sequence […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea launched a ballistic missile Wednesday, Japan and South Korea reported, the latest in a series of tests that have upset the North’s neighbors and drawn firm condemnation from the United States. South Korea’s military said North Korea fired the ballistic missile from the Sunan area near Pyongyang. That is the […]
Donald Trump’s chief of staff was on the voter rolls in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia while he peddled the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen. Mark Meadows—the chief of staff to former President Donald Trump and prominent purveyor of the “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was rigged through widespread voter […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — A U.S. aircraft carrier has neared the coast of South Korea for the first time since 2017, the latest show of U.S. military strength following North Korea’s recent long-range missile test. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group arrived east of Ulsan, a southeastern South Korean city, and will likely stay there for three […]