Tanaka said he hoped South Koreans would visit Tsushima and discover its centuries-old cultural ties with Korea, though there will now be higher security around the statue. Japan and South Korea ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee ...

TOKYO — A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a yearslong legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ...

But in a 2007 autobiography by Park Geun-hye, daughter of Park Chung-hee who became South Korea’s first woman president in 2013, she said when she met Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang in 2022, the ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, stolen from Japan's Kannonji temple in 2012, sits at Buseok Temple in Seosan, South Korea, Monday, May 5, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP ...

Delivery workers carry a 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, into Kannon Temple upon its return, on Tsushima Island ...

A Buddhist Statue Stolen From a Japanese Temple Nearly 13 Years Ago Is Returned From South Korea TOKYO (AP) — A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ...