Making its first Summer Olympics appearance in eight years, North Korea will have 16 athletes competing in seven sports in Paris, data showed Tuesday.

According to the organizing committee for Paris 2024, North Korea

Prices could rise again due to bad weather conditions in summer, the finance chief said Tuesday, vowing all-out efforts to moderate inflationary pressure.

Minister Choi Sang-mok made the remarks during an economy-related ministers’ meeting

South Korea will operate a temporary consular office in Paris to assist its nationals during the Olympics period, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.

The office, to be set up at the South Korean Embassy

South Korea’s unification ministry on Tuesday questioned the feasibility of North Korea’s project to build factories in a move to develop backward provinces.

North Korea kicked off a project earlier this year to build

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will visit Vietnam this week to attend the state funeral of the country’s highest-ranking official, Nguyen Phu Trong, his office said Tuesday.

Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of