Lee is easing tensions with North Korea by reversing his predecessor’s hardline approach. However, with Kim Jong-un uninterested in diplomacy and backed by Russia, prospects for peace remain slim.

Lee Jae-myung is taking action to ease tensions between South Korea and China, hoping to enlist the latter's help improving relations with North Korea.

The 30-minute call comes as Lee, a liberal from South Korea's Democratic Party, seeks to ease tensions on the Korean ...

The South resumed the daily loudspeaker broadcasts in June last year in retaliation for North Korea flying trash-laden ...

At first glance, South Korea’s next president will be less Western aligned than the last, emphasising pragmatism over ...

Within a week after his election, Lee Jae-myung talked with the leaders of the United States, Japan, and China over the phone ...

From the North Korea-Russia alliance to China and Japan, South Korea’s neighbors are watching closely for signs of Lee’s ...

South Korea's newly-elected President Lee Jae-myung and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba agreed during a telephone call ...

The debilitating political vacuum that has reigned in Seoul since South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment on ...

One of the most consequential missteps in US Korea policy under the Biden administration was the failure to engage with South Korea’s domestic political ...

The new South Korean president, Lee Jae-myung, calls himself a foreign policy “pragmatist”. He says he is driven by South ...