The launches come days after a trilateral military exercise run by the U.S., South Korea and Japan, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. North Korea on Tuesday test-launched several short ...

As Lee Jae-myung assumes South Korea's presidency after a decisive electoral victory, the left-leaning leader inherits not just a nation beset by eco ...

A new North Korean ... that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, was attending the ceremony at the Chongjin shipyard when the "serious accident" occurred. Blaming "inexperienced command and ...

North Korea has detained three officials following ... with KCNA also blaming "inexperienced command and operational carelessness." Satellite images of the Chongjin port taken after the incident ...

North Korea’s expanding ties with Russia are creating more risk on the peninsula, and the US is adding to the uncertainty.

The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea, slapping a ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of oil products to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and ...

1981 -- Harvard University establishes a research institute for Korean studies. 1983 -- Kim Young-sam, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, ends a three-week hunger strike that he held to ...

Lee Jae Myung takes on the leadership of South Korea with one of the strongest public mandates in decades – but also facing ...

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea has clinched the presidency, turning the page on six months of relentless political upheaval and a leadership vac ...

The debilitating political vacuum that has reigned in Seoul since South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment on December 14 has finally ended. On June 3, Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s ...

Less than 10 days after Israel launched Operation Rising Lion to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, the Jewish state, the US and the world have arrived at “one of the genuine hinge moments of history”, ...