SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is expected to become larger and older in 40 years with its population growing at a slower pace, data showed Tuesday.

SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak called Tuesday for a sweeping change in the military's "barracks culture" amid criticism that bullying, harassment and other hostile practices amo

SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- The Cabinet approved on Tuesday revisions of criminal laws to allow reduced penalties or even immunity from indictment for criminal suspects who give testimony in court o

The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday.

HONG KONG, July 12 (Yonhap) -- Sales of home appliances in China's rural areas spiked in the first half of 2011 from a year earlier on government moves to encourage domestic consumption, officials

(LEAD) SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin will visit China this week for a ministerial meeting on regional security and defense cooperation, the defense ministry here said Tue

SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- CJ Cheiljedang Corp., South Korea's leading food manufacturer, said Tuesday that it will seek to more than triple its sales by 2015 by transforming into a new material-pr

   SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- The ruling Grand National Party (GNP) will seek a 30 percent increase in the number of welfare staff at local governments across South Korea by 2014 to ensure a smooth

SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- The number of people coming in and out of South Korea on international flights rose 4.2 percent on-year in the first half as a growing number of South Koreans are going a

SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- Unfair stock trading cases in South Korea increased 6.5 percent in the first half from a year earlier, with most of them on the secondary bourse, the financial watchdog s