A senior U.S. diplomat will make a two-day visit to South Korea this week for talks about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear and missile programs, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.
South Korean companies facing actual bankruptcy after an abrupt shutdown of the once-jointly-run factory park with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are struggling to cover potential losses estimated at hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) escalated war of words with violent languages such as "senile granny" and "regime collapse" exchanged amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.
South Korea's military on Wednesday warned of stern retaliation against "possible provocations" from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which issued a warning the previous day of striking South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Tuesday that its strategic and tactical weapons are ready to be used for preemptive strikes on South Korea and the United States even if any "small movements" were found among U.S.-S.Korean special forces, the official KCNA news agency said Tuesday.
Japanese top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that Japan will allow women's soccer team of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to enter the country for the Olympic qualifying games, despite bilateral tensions.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday expressed worry that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s recent provocations may weigh down further on the already-struggling South Korean economy.
A senior UN aid official on Thursday urged the UN Security Council to "be cautious on the humanitarian impact" of any additional sanctions on the lives of people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) following Pyongyang's recent nuclear and missile tests.
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law the legislation to impose more stringent sanctions on Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the White House said Thursday.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that Seoul will take "stronger and more effective" measures to create an environment forcing change in Pyongyang.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday said that Seoul will take "stronger and more effective" measures to create an environment forcing change in Pyongyang.
South Korea has been divided over whether to deploy a sophisticated U.S. missile defense system in its territory on worries about the expected escalation of regional tensions and an unproven plausibility of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), both militarily and environmentally.
All of South Koreans on Thursday withdrew safely from a jointly-run factory park with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after Pyongyang's decision to deport all South Korean nationals from the park.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday decided to shut down a jointly-run factory park with South Korea just a day after Seoul's announcement to stop operations at the industrial zone in the DPRK' s border city of Kaesong.
South Korean companies running factories at the Kaesong Industrial complex on Thursday crossed the inter-Korean border into the jointly-run industrial park with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), to bring back products and materials.
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