North Korea reiterated Tuesday it has no intention to hold talks with the United States, just hours before Washington's top nuclear envoy is set to arrive in Seoul to discuss how to break the impasse in nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang. Kwon Jong-gun, the North Korean foreign ministry's director-general handling US affairs, made the remark in a statement, saying there are still people talking about brokering a meeting between the US and the North even after First Vice Foreign Minister Choe

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced its earnings guidance for the second quarter, which hinted an earnings surprise despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on major products. Samsung said the company would post 8.1 trillion won ($6.8 billion) in operating profit for the April to June period, which would be up about 22.7 percent from a year earlier and 25.6 percent from the previous quarter. But Q2 revenue stood at 52 trillion won, declining 7.36 percent on-year and 6.02 percent on-

Medytox shares made a dramatic turnaround on Tuesday, following the US International Trade Commission’s initial determination advising a 10-year sales ban of Daewoong Pharmaceutical‘s Jeuveau. Medytox, and its US partner Allergan, took Daewoong and its US parner Evolus to the USITC court in 2019 contesting that the latter‘s US-launched botulinum toxin Jeuveau was a product of industrial poaching. After the initial determination, Daewoong responded that the USITC is only an