Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has been selected to succeed Ban Ki-moon as UN secretary-general. The UN Security Council decided to recommend Guterres as new UN chief in a straw poll Wednesday. The council plans to adopt a formal resolution on the decision Thursday. The decision should then be endorsed by the 193-member General Assembly, but the process is considered a formal...

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to renegotiate trade deals as he clashed with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton during their crucial first television debate. "We have to renegotiate our trade deals and we have to stop these countries from stealing our companies and our jobs," Trump said during the nationally televised debate held in New York, once again displaying deeply...

The United States on Monday blacklisted a Chinese firm, its owner and three other company officials, and announced criminal charges against them for assisting North Korea with its nuclear and missile programs, a landmark move representing the first-ever sanctions on a Chinese entity over Pyongyang's weapons programs. The sanctions on Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development Company Ltd and its o...

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump again denounced the free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea as a "job killing trade deal" and a "disaster," and said the Asian ally should pay 100 percent of the cost for the American troops stationed there. "It is no great secret that many of the special interests funding my opponent's campaign are the same people...

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said North Korea is a "potential catastrophe" and a "big problem" as he expressed concern about the communist nation's nuclear and missile programs. Trump also reiterated his long-running point that China should solve the North Korea problem. "They're very belligerent. They have no respect for our country, none whatsoever. And we have a situatio...

US President Barack Obama is unlikely to forswear first use of nuclear weapons, the New York Times reported Tuesday, as the so-called nuclear "no first use" proposal sparked concerns among allies and senior officials alike. Obama has considered adopting the new nuclear doctrine in his final months in office in an effort to bolster his legacy as champion of a world without nuclear weapons. The pr...

Korean-American voters in the US appear to strongly favor Hilary Clinton over Donald Trump for their next president, regardless of their political inclination, a recent survey by a US-based scholar revealed. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California’s Network of Korean-American Leaders, showed that 70.25 percent of the respondents are planning to vote for Clint...