High-level military officials from South Korea and the United States started a two-day meeting to discuss the issue of delaying the transfer of wartime operational control of South Korean troops from Washington to Seoul, a government official said Monday.
South Korea's arms procurement agency said on Wednesday that the country plans to develop its own interceptor, dismissing speculation that it may adopt the U.S.- developed missile defense system.
German car maker Volkswagen planned to recall 2,897 passengers cars in South Korea for faulty headlights, Seoul's transportation ministry said Thursday.
South Korea will develop its own missile defense (MD) system to intercept missiles at a higher altitude instead of adopting the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), a military source confirmed local media reports on Tuesday.
South Korea's Unification Ministry said Monday that it will return one saved sailor from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to Pyongyang among three as the two asked for remaining in Seoul.
South Korea's Defense Ministry on Thursday denied the reported deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, saying that it will pursue an indigenous missile shield separately from the U.S. one.
The N. Korea said Tuesday that South Korea's accusation of "shelling by north" was a fiction aimed at covering up unpardonable provocations, the official KCNA news agency reported.
S. Korean president Park Geun-hye on Monday met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at South Korea's presidential office Chong Wa Dae.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday fired several rounds of artillery shells toward waters in South Korea, and two rounds fell near a South Korean patrol ship sailing around the western maritime border.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) warned Tuesday that the South Korean government would pay a dear price for flagrant slandering.
South Korea's prosecutors said Tuesday they would summon the suspected owner of the sunken ferry Sewol's operator, Chonghaejin Marine, later this week over allegations of corruption.
South Korea on Thursday assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council for May.
Japan was a friend of South Korea one time and an enemy the other as history says. Now, at a time when Japan may have become a heartfelt neighbor, or at least not an enemy, to South Korea, its leadership decided to add fuel to the flames of its bereft next-door neighbor by visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine.
South Korea's Defense Ministry on Tuesday warned of a "surprise" nuclear test of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) citing increased activity in its main underground test site.
A passenger ship with 471 people aboard, mostly high school students, was sinking in waters off South Korea's southwest coast, local broadcaster YTN reported.
The issue on whether to share military intelligence between South Korea, Japan and the United States will not be on the agenda of the three-way defense talks scheduled to be held in Washington next week, Seoul's Defense Ministry said Friday.
South Korea and Japan decided to hold director general-level talks in Seoul next week to discuss the issue of Korean women forced into sex slavery in the Japanese military brothels during the World War II, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
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