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Andrew Salmon

Seoul, South Korea-based Andrew Salmon, Asia Editor at The Washington Times. brings two decades of journalistic experience to the position. Before joining The Washington Times, he was Northeast Asia Editor of Hong Kong-based Asia Times. Andrew’s reporting previously appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Forbes, The International Herald Tribune, The South China Morning Post, The Times and The Washington Times. He has made television appearances on Arirang TV, CNN and France24. He can be reached at asalmon@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Andrew Salmon

Japanese prime minister warns of fallout from Biden veto of Nippon-U.S. Steel deal

Japan is getting its samurai on -- riding into battle against both the outgoing and incoming U.S. presidents.

January 7, 2025

North Korea’s latest missile test punctuates Blinken’s farewell visit to Seoul

With the sun setting on the Biden administration and South Korean policymaking frozen by a presidential impeachment drama, North Korea continued to act true to form Monday.

January 6, 2025

Chaotic standoff as investigators try to arrest impeached South Korean president

Amid chaotic scenes, South Korea veered into uncharted legal and constitutional territory early Friday morning, as a group of investigators, backed by thousands of police, sought to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.

January 2, 2025

BRICS beefs with Southeast Asian partners in 2025

BRICS, the informal group of nations that challenges Western primacy in the global economic and financial spaces, is muscling up in 2025, adding nine nations, including three major Southeast Asian economies, as partners.

January 2, 2025

Crisis-struck South Korea starts new year on unhappy, uncertain note

As South Koreans mull the aftershocks of a deadly air crash, the country's ongoing political crisis has no end in sight -- making 2025 look far from upbeat.

December 31, 2024

Nearly 200 people dead in fiery airliner crash in South Korea

An airliner carrying 181 people crashed Sunday morning in South Korea, killing at least 176 of those on board.

December 29, 2024

Valuable North Korean soldier who was seized in Kursk dies

A North Korean soldier captured by Ukrainian forces for the first time in the Russo-Ukraine War has died of wounds, sources from both Kyiv and Seoul claimed Friday.

December 27, 2024

After South Korean president’s impeachment, acting president suffers same fate

South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted on Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo, just 13 days after impeaching President Yoon Suk Yeol.

December 27, 2024

Mystic allegations, charges of cloak-and-dagger frontier plot roil South Korean impeachment drama

It may read like lunatic conspiracy theorizing. But in South Korea, where security never strays far from the headlines and where superstitious practices are ubiquitous on 21st-century streets, truth is often stranger than fiction.

December 24, 2024

Japan’s Honda, Nissan plan to merge into third-largest global automaker

Japanese automakers Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Corp. announced Monday their intention to merge by 2026 and create the world's third-largest car-making operation by sales.

December 23, 2024

South Korea’s opposition party demands probe of impeached President Yoon and his wife

South Korea's main opposition party on Sunday demanded that the nation's acting president launch special counsel investigations of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee.

December 22, 2024

High body count may not deter North Korean forces fighting for Russia in Ukraine

As North Korean troops storm into battle against Ukrainians in Russia, the high casualties they have reportedly suffered are receiving major attention, but the early losses may not be enough to change Pyongyang's calculations about the value of the deployment, analysts said this week.

December 20, 2024

Defying drones, mines and shells, North Korean troops storm village in Russia’s Kursk region

North Korean troops have entered the fight alongside Russian troops in the Kursk border region, successfully taking at least one objective against Ukrainian forces despite suffering heavy losses, according to multiple reports from the battlefield.

December 17, 2024

Japan woos Trump as impeachment crisis sidelines South Korea

With major questions hovering over the incoming U.S. administration's Asia policy, senior Japanese figures are rushing to woo President-elect Donald Trump, while South Korea officials, trapped in a national impeachment drama, are largely unable to act.

December 16, 2024

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