South Korea and the United States launched their largest-ever joint air exercise on Friday to beef up their combined strategic capability amid the escalating tensions over the peninsula.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea on Monday exchanged fire into the sea across the western maritime border, Yonhap news agency reported.
Sentiment among large corporations in South Korea faltered as U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hinted at an earlier-than-expected hike in interest rates, a local business lobby survey showed Thursday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired off two medium-range ballistic missiles Wednesday morning in violation of the UN Security Council resolutions, South Korea's Defense Ministry said.
Japan is seeking to improve its relations with South Korea through a meeting in the Netherlands involving Prime Minster Shinzo Abe, U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Abe said on Sunday.
Rival political parties in South Korea failed to pass a bill on nuclear security, adopted in the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in 2012, just a week ahead of the third NSS in the Netherlands.
A joint panel composed of officials from South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Thursday held their first meeting on dispute arbitration in the joint factory park in the border town of Kaesong, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.
Officials from China, Japan and South Korea started a two-day Trilateral Table Top Exercise (TTX) on Thursday in Tokyo, which aims at increasing natural disaster coping capacity.
South Korea planned to cut its standing armed forces by more than 110,000 over the next eight years amid lower birth rate that will reduce the number of draftees, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday rejected South Korea's offer to hold talks between Red Cross officials to discuss the topic on regularly holding family reunion, Seoul's Unification Ministry said in a statement.
China, South Korea and Japan started the fourth round of negotiations on trilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in Seoul on Tuesday.
The United States urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to exercise restraint and improve its relations with neighbors after the East Asian country reportedly fired four short-range missiles, the State Department said on Thursday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired four short-range missiles, local media reported Thursday citing South Korean Defense Ministry.
South Korea on Tuesday officially launched"the Korean Peninsula Club", a dialogue mechanism involving 21 countries, to strengthen international communication and cooperation on issues about Democratic People's Republic of Korea ahead of the upcoming family reunion between the two sides, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who arrived here on Thursday for his second trip to South Korea in the past year, reiterated his position that the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will not be accepted as a nuclear state, hoping Seoul and Tokyo could resolve tensions.
Former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, known for his apology for past wartime atrocities while in office, arrived here Tuesday for a three-day visit to South Korea amid frayed ties between the two countries.
DPRK proposed Monday to South Korea to hold the working- level contacts between Red Cross officials within this week, Seoul' s Unification Ministry said.
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