SOUTH KOREA

Han Kang won in the face of competition from an impressive shortlist, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk.

The bill requires the administration to review whether or not North Korea fits the terror sponsor designation.

Brompton CEO Will Butler-Adams peddled over the Brooklyn Bridge to talk about the iconic brand and how it’s about to change.

Elfin, with five people on board, was detained by a North Korean coast guard ship in the Sea of Japan on Friday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated the North Korean leader on his new title as the historic congress in the reclusive nation closed Monday.

“Captain America: Civil War” may become Disney’s biggest-ever Marvel film in China, continuing the studio’s banner year there.

The media criticized North Korea’s nuclear program, but suggested Pyongyang was willing to emerge from isolation and reform its economy, adding that China will never “curse the country.”

Ahead of the event, the secretive country trumpeted “miraculous results” and said advances in nuclear and ballistic missile developments were “the greatest gifts.”

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee wants Japan to shoulder the cost of America’s military presence on its territory.

The move comes amid mounting tensions on the Korean Peninsula where the U.S. and South Korea are deliberating deployment of a missile system.

South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun said Monday that North Korea will likely conduct its fifth nuclear test soon.

Cho Yang-ho, who took over as president of the games’ organizing committee in 2014, resigned citing financial problems with his shipping business.

South Korea says the reclusive state may carry out a nuclear test near its seventh congress, which is slated to begin on May 6.

Lee Ju-yeol threw the full weight of the bank behind a structural reform effort, but did not mention quantitative easing, which it is under pressure to provide.

The priest, identified only by his surname Han, was a Korean clergyman with Chinese nationality and lived in a Chinese town near the North Korean border.

Pyongyang also threatened to launch nuclear attacks on the U.S. and South Korea over joint military drills between the two countries.

The 62-year-old man is accused of attempting to steal classified military information and providing data to a South Korean spy agency.

Thousands of delegates are expected in the capital, Pyongyang, from May 6 for the first congress in 36 years.

Stock markets traded broadly lower Thursday as investors reeled under the Bank of Japan’s decision to hold fire on stimulus.

Thursday’s apparent missile test comes even as North Korea faces strong sanctions following its fourth nuclear test in January and a rocket launch in February.

North Korea’s longtime ally has been critical of Pyongyang’s nuclear advancements, even backing harsh Western sanctions against the reclusive country.