The Supreme Court of South Korea on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for former President Park Guen-hye who was convicted on charges of abuse of power, bribery and coercion in 2018. The ...

SEOUL, South KoreaSEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean appellate court has upheld a life sentence imposed on a Somali pirate for hijacking a ship and shooting its captain. Five Somali pirates were ...

On Sunday, 24-year-old American Matthew Miller was sentenced to six years of hard labor by North Korea's Supreme Court. The crime? That the California-bred Miller entered the country illegally to ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korea on Friday sentenced a U.S. citizen of Korean heritage to 10 years in prison after convicting him of espionage and subversion, the second American it has put behind ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — A South Korean court handed a suspended sentence to an American soldier convicted of smuggling synthetic cannabis into the country via military mail. The service member, ...

Matthew Miller, an Americans detained in North Korea, received six years of hard labor. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to Columbia University's Charles Armstrong about the importance of this sentencing. In ...