Korea

North Korea said Friday that it had tested an "underwater nuclear weapon system" in response to joint naval exercises by Washington, Seoul and Tokyo that involved a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

North Korea has blown up a joint liaison office used for talks between itself and South Korea, the latest sign that ties between the two longtime adversaries are rapidly deteriorating.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan began on Wednesday to clean up after a powerful typhoon killed 11 people, injured hundreds and stranded thousands at a flooded airport, though when the airport in an industrial and tourist hub might reopen was not clear.

A UNESCO committee for the return of cultural property "recognized for the first time the historical, cultural, legal and ethical aspects of the return by Britain of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece," the Ministry of Culture said on Thursday.

The "Korean-Hellenic Maritime Cooperation Forum," to be held on Wednesday, June 6, in the context of the Posidonia 2018 shipping fair next to Athens International Airport, is expected to draw quite a crowd and will highlight the long-standing cooperation between the two nations in the maritime sector.

AGERPRES special correspondent Florin Barbuta reports: Decrease of economic growth is the most serious issue facing the South Korean government that has crafted a set of policies to address it, relying also on SMEs to bolster innovation-driven growth.

AGERPRES special correspondent Florin Barbuta reports: No less than 77 Romanians have graduated from South Korean universities since 1993 under the Global Korea Scholarship program that is designed to provide higher education in this Asian country for international students, representatives of the National Institute for International Education (NIIED) - the arm of South Korea's Ministry

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed the historic Korea summit on April 27, saying he would talk to South Korean President Moon Jae-in about the issue on his May 2 visit. 

The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Bucharest, Kim Eun-joong talked, in an interview granted to AGERPRES, about the "invaluable opportunity" to accomplish denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula, to the benefit of the entire world.

The statement comes in the context of the upcoming North Korea - South Korea summit starting Friday.

A previous version of this interview, published April 2, contained several substantial phrasing errors, now corrected.