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A final photo has emerged of a three-year-old boy who died in the Jeju Air plane crash that k!lled all but two of the 181 people on board.   Five of those killed on the flight from Thailand to South Korea were children under the age of ten.   Among them was a three-year-old boy, who is understood to have …

The cause of Sunday’s crash in which all 175 passengers and four of the six crew aboard the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 flight remains under investigation. ADVERTISEMENT The value of Boeing shares took another knock on Monday with a 4% fall at one stage following the crash on Sunday of a Boeing 737-800 in what was the worst air disaster …

A plane crash in South Korea has reportedly k!lled at least 179 people .   The accident occurred early Sunday morningwith the aircraft colliding with a wall at the Airport and exploding after landing on its belly at the Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea.   When it veered off the runway, the Jeju Air flight was coming …

South Korean lawmakers have voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, with the opposition declaring a “victory of the people”. Out of 300 lawmakers, 204 voted to impeach the president on allegations of insurrection, with 85 against, three abstentions, and eight invalid ballots. The motion was carried after some members of Yoon’s People Power …

A federal court in St Louis has indicted 14 North Koreans for allegedly being part of a long-running conspiracy aimed at extorting funds from US companies and funneling money to Pyongyang’s weapons programmes. The wider scheme allegedly involves thousands of North Korean IT workers who use false, stolen, and borrowed identities from people in the US and other countries to …

A man on a flight to South Korea caused panic after he tried to open the emergency door of a plane mid-flight, with dramatic video showing flight attendants tackling him.  The suspect, who has not been named, was said to have sat in a cabin crew seat without permission while on Korean Air flight KE658 from Bangkok, Thailand, to Incheon, South Korea, …

  North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un threatened to use nuclear weapons to destroy his rival and neighbour South Korea if attacked, state media reported Friday, October 4, after South Korea’s president warned that if the North used nuclear weapons it would “face the end of its regime.”     The fiery rhetoric comes at a time of tension on …