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South Korean presidential candidate Park Geun-hye, who appears slightly favored in Wednesday's election, is the daughter of a military dictator who ran the country for nearly two decades. She would be South Korea's first female president.

Daughter Of A Dictator Favored In S. Korean Election

Park Geun-hye's father was a military dictator who ran the country for nearly two decades. She has apologized for her father's suppression of democracy and appears to be slightly favored in Wednesday's presidential vote.

In this April 5, 2009 image, a rocket is lifted off from its launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea.

North Koreans Celebrate Launch Of Long-Range Rocket

North Koreans danced in the streets of their capital Wednesday after the Pyongyang regime successfully fired a long-range rocket, defying international warnings and taking a big step forward in its quest to develop a nuclear-tipped missile.

South Korea Says North Korea Has Fired Its Long-Range Rocket

North Korea fired a long-range rocket Wednesday in its second launch under its new leader, South Korean officials said, defying warnings from the U.N. and Washington only days before South Korean presidential elections.

The Sirindhorn Chinese Language and Culture Center at Mae Fah Luang University in northern Thailand, where several graceful pagoda-like buildings sit around a pond on the campus, was built and paid for by the Chinese government.

Neighbors Feel China's Expanding Power

China's power is growing in its own backyard of Southeast Asia, even in countries that were once firmly anti-communist. Through transportation projects, cheap goods and cultural centers, China is using its influence to try to make friends throughout the region.

EPA Cites Hyundai, Kia For Inflating Gas Mileage On 900,000 Cars

If you bought a Hyundai or Kia over the past three years, you could soon be getting some money back from the two automakers.

North Korea Says US Is Within Its Missile Range

North Korea warned Tuesday that the U.S. mainland is within range of its missiles, saying Washington's recent agreement to let Seoul possess missiles capable of hitting all of the North shows the allies are plotting to invade the country.

In South Korea, K-Pop Gets New King

South Korean rapper PSY has been a big star in the world of Korean pop music for years. But the video for his latest single, Gangnam Style, launched him to global stardom. Today, he's number one on iTunes and shares a manager with Justin Bieber, but he still wants to record music in his native language.

A Case For Continued 'Forward Engagement'

Now is not the time to pull back on military and foreign engagement, according to former Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy. In Foreign Affairs, she argues that strategic military deployments abroad, a policy of "forward engagement," help preserve the United States' standing in the world.

A Mexican federal policeman guards the area where dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway outside the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on May 13. The murders were one of the latest episodes in Mexico's brutal and unrelenting drug war.

Mexicans Want New Approach To Bloody Drug War

President Felipe Calderon has confronted the drug cartels head-on, and more than 50,000 people have died in recent years. As Mexicans get ready to pick a new president, many are looking for an approach that can lower the level of violence.

North Korean officials and foreign journalists leave the launch pad after a visit to see the rocket in Tangachai -ri space center on April 8, 2012.

North Korea Admits Failure Of Much-Anticipated Satellite

A satellite launch North Korea had hailed as a moment of national pride ended in failure Friday when the rocket disintegrated over the Yellow Sea, earning Pyongyang embarrassment as well as condemnation from a host of nations that deemed it a covert test of missile technology.

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