Korea struggling to free hostages in Afghanistan a...

Korea struggling to free hostages in Afghanistan a... Korean officials were continuing their contacts with the Afghan government Monday (July 23) to win the release of 23 Koreans taken hostage in Afghanistan, as a Monday night (Seoul time) deadline set by the kidnappers to start killing them is loo...

	Korea denies any military operation to rescue Kore... Any military operation to rescue 23 Korean hostages in Afghanistan would not be carried out without Seoul's consent, the presidential office said Monday (July 23).

	Major U.S. daily runs story on Korean comfort woma... Amid high expectations that the resolution calling for Japan to formally apologize for its wartime atrocity surrounding comfort women, or forced sex slaves, will pass the U.S. House of Representatives in a mid-July vote, the Los Angeles Times re...