South Korea insists it paid no ransom to Taliban
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South Korea's presidential office denied a Taliban claim on Saturday that it had paid a ransom of more than $20 million (9.9 million pounds) for the release of 19 Christian missionaries held hostage in Afghanistan.
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SEOUL, South Korea  - Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted Friday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail U.S.-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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South Korea's nuclear research is not linked to any manufacture of atomic weapons, the United States said.
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South Korea says there is no evidence to suggest any explosion took place at a site in North Korea, where a mushroom cloud and a suspected massive blast were recently reported.
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The Philippine military and the released Italian hostage himself Wednesday confirmed that no ransom was paid for the release in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Norte.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban guerrillas reiterated on Wednesday that they had nothing to do with the kidnapping of three UN workers and said they opposed the use of women as hostages for the release of prisoners.
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The owner and operators of the tanker involved in South Korea's worst oil spill denied any wrongdoing Thursday and offered sympathy to locals affected by the environmental fallout.
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South Korea's top economic official says the government would not sit idle in case of a speculative attack on the country's currency.
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North Korea on Tuesday denied reports that it was helping Syria to develop nuclear weapons and insisted it was keeping an earlier pledge not to allow the transfer of nuclear materials.
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South Korea is rejoicing at the deal to release the 19 aid workers kidnapped by the Taliban. But what might Seoul have given up to get them back?
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban kidnappers killed one of its 23 South Koreans hostages and will kill the rest if their demands are not met by 2030 GMT (4.30 pm ET) on Wednesday, a Taliban spokesman said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants threatened yesterday to kill at least 18 kidnapped South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - The Taliban on Saturday denied accusations by Afghan leaders the group was being sponsored by Pakistan, an issue souring relations between the two nations.
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SEOUL -- Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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The favourite in South Korea's presidential election denies any wrongdoing, despite a new inquiry into fraud claims.
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Taliban militants threatened Friday to kill a group of abducted South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan. South Korea said Saturday it plans to withdraw its forces by the end of this year as scheduled.
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog said it won&#39;t refer South Korea to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions after the country cooperated with the agency and stopped undeclared nuclear activity.