A city government in South Korea plans to confiscate crypto assets from citizens who owe the equivalent of several hundred dollars or more in taxes, Korean media have reported. This comes as part of a wider crackdown on evaders.

Press TV - Tehran has censured South Korea for misnaming the Persian Gulf and sending a military mission to the waters south of Iran under pressure from the United States. Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavitweeted in both Persian and Korean languages on Tuesday, blasting the South Korean Defense Ministry for referring to the Persian ...

RT - South Korea will send a naval destroyer and 300 troops to the Strait of Hormuz, the Defense Ministry in Seoul said on Tuesday. The move follows pressure from the US amid tensions between Washington and Tehran, AFP said. Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping vessels in the strait, a strategic point for the worlds oil trade,...

Bloomberg - South Korea has become the first of Irans top-three oil customers to fulfill a hard-line U.S. demand that buyers cut imports to zero. The Asian nation didnt import any crude from Iran last month, compared with 194,000 barrels a day in July, tanker-tracking and shipping data compiled by Bloomberg show. While bigger consumersChinaandIndia ...

Reuters - Japan and South Korea, two major buyers of Iranian oil, are in talks with the U.S. government in a bid to avoid adverse impacts from Washingtons reimposition of sanctions aimed at cutting Iran out of international markets. The United States is demanding countries cut all imports of Iranian oil from November, a senior State Department official ...

Tasnim The South Korean government held an inter-agency meeting recently to explore ways to minimize local business impact from the US decision to exit the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. In the session hosted by Yun Kang-hyeon, deputy foreign minister for economic affairs, representatives from the ministry and other related government ...

MNA Hong Jin-Wooka visiting South Korean diplomat told an Iranian senior MP, on Sunday, that the world is aware of Irans commitment to the JCPOA. We as a member of the international community are well aware that Iran has been fully committed to the JCPOA, said Hong Jin-Wook, the Director General of African and Middle Eastern Affairs Bureau at ...

Press TV - An unexpected announcement that a meeting is being planned between the leaders of long-time adversaries the United States and North Korea has been welcomed by regional powers China and Russia as well as South Korea. US President Donald Trump said a meeting is being planned with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un just hours after speaking ...

Press TV- South Korean officials say they will not provide Iranian and North Korean players with Samsung smartphones which are available free to all other athletes at the Winter Olympics starting Friday. State news agency Yonhap quoted PyeongChang Olympic organizers as saying Wednesday that the decision had been taken in line with sanctions ...

Press TV - Organizers of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea say they have formally apologized to Iran over an earlier decision to deny its athletes gift Samsung smartphones, which sparked diplomatic furor in Tehran. The head of the Pyeongchang organizing committee, Lee Hee-beom, confirmed he had written to the Iranian sports ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi expressed deep sorrow over a fire in a South Korean hospital that killed 41 people and injured more than 70 others. In a statement released on Friday, Qassemi offered his condolences to the South Korean people and government over the tragic incident. The fire in the South Korean hospital ...

Reuters - The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Koreas Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as the blaze raged for a fourth day following a collision with a freight ship. Dozens of rescue boats battled strong winds, high waves and poisonous fumes to comb a 900-square-...

Press TV - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has hailed the progress made in the talks between North and South Koreas for easing tensions on the peninsula, an attitude that has "sidelined" US President Donald Trump, according to a New York-based political commentator. Guterres welcomed "the agreement to work to ease military tensions, hold ...

Press TV - All eyes are on the two Koreas as the approaching Winter Olympics provides a perfect opportunity for the two unfriendly neighbors to engage in some fence mending. Preliminary reports suggest North Korea has said it will send a delegation of high-ranking officials, athletes, and a cheering squad to the Pyeongchang games in the South next ...

Tasnim - The US and South Korea on Monday kicked off their largest ever joint air exercise, an operation North Korea has labelled an "all-out provocation", days after Pyongyang fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. The five-day Vigilant Ace drill involving 230 aircraft, including F-22 Raptor stealth jet fighters, and tens ...

Press TV - American and South Korean warships have launched war games off the coast of the Korean Peninsula in an unusually strong display of force aimed at North Korea. The November 11-14 joint drills, which began on Saturday in the western Pacific, involve three US aircraft carriers -- USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has once again returned tofiery rhetoric against North Korea, threatening Pyongyang with destruction if it continues nuclear provocations. Addressing South Koreas National Assembly on Wednesday, Trump attempted to portray his administration as much more willing than former US administrations to resort to ...

Press TV - The European Union (EU) and South Korea have jointly underscored the importance of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six other countries. The EUs foreign policy director, Federica Mogherini, and South Koreas Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha stressed the significance of the deal during a meeting in Brussels on Friday. They acknowledged ...

IFP - Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs Sorena Sattari says the country has begun exporting nano-products and equipment to such developed countries as South Korea. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a nanotechnology exhibition in Tehran, Sattari declared that the Islamic Republic has started exporting nano-...

Press TV- South Korea says it worries that North Korea would take more provocative action in the Korean Peninsula region next month, when the anniversary of the establishment of its communist party arrives. South Koreas National Security Council chief Chung Eui-yong told President Moon Jae-in in a meeting on Thursday that he expected Pyongyang ...