By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea, Japan and the United States staged long-planned joint naval exercises involving an American aircraft carrier to ensure readiness against nuclear and missile …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A senior U.S. government official said on Friday that the United Nations security council should meet to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launches. United States Vice President …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will convene a meeting of world leaders in Bangkok on the sidelines of a regional summit to discuss North Korea’s missile launch, …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Wednesday said it fired warning shots toward its east and west coasts to send “grave warning” against South Korea for firing dozens of artillery …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and U.S. warplanes conducted bombing drills on Tuesday in response to North Korea’s firing of a missile over Japan for the first time since 2017, …
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By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has completed preparations for a nuclear test and a possible window for carrying it out could be between Oct. …
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N.Korea may be preparing to test submarine-launched ballistic missile, S.Korea military says -Yonhap
(Reuters) – South Korea’s military has detected signs that North Korea may be preparing to test a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Yonhap news agency reported on Saturday, days before a …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and South Korea on Friday denounced North Korea’s first-use nuclear doctrine unveiled this month as “escalatory and destabilizing” and Washington vowed to continue to deploy …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has released new propaganda posters featuring its nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, state media reported on Tuesday, doing so for the first time in years and after …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – A new North Korean law calls for “automatic” nuclear launches if the country’s leadership or command and control systems are threatened, underscoring leader Kim …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Senior officials from Japan, the United States and South Korea will meet next week to discuss North Korean issues, the Japanese government said on Friday, amid signs …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL – North Korea has dropped a face mask mandate and other social distancing rules as leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over COVID-19 this week, state …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL – North Korea warned it will “never tolerate” the United States’ criticism of the isolated country’s nuclear programme, calling Washington the “kingpin of nuclear proliferation” and …
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By Soo-hyang Choi and Ju-min Park SEOUL – South Korea’s tougher stance towards the North under its new conservative president will be welcomed by Tokyo as Japan seeks to boost …
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SEOUL – China and Russia are clearly not interested in working with the United States to manage North Korea’s nuclear and missile arsenal, Washington’s nuclear envoy said on Friday, after …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL – Canada’s military has accused Chinese warplanes of harassing its patrol aircraft as they monitor North Korea sanction evasions, sometimes forcing Canadian planes to divert from …
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SEOUL – North Korea reported 96,020 more people showing fever symptoms and no additional deaths amid the country’s first confirmed coronavirus outbreak, state media KCNA said on Tuesday. (Reporting by …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – North Korean state media has kept quiet about a recent flurry of missile tests amid an unprecedented coronavirus wave – perhaps to avoid overshadowing a …
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WASHINGTON – U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan spoke by phone with South Korea National Security Adviser Kim Sung-han to discuss North Korea’s launch of three ballistic missiles, the White …
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By SungHyuk An and Heejung Jung SEOUL – Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health workers stride towards an ambulance to do battle with a COVID-19 …
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By Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – North Korea is facing its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak with no known vaccine programme, sparking new calls for the government to accept …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL -South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s plans to offer economic aid in return for denuclearisation could face an early challenge amid signs of an imminent North Korean …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – A major North Korean propaganda website denounced on Thursday South Korea’s incoming president Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a tougher line on weapons …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – North Korea’s office workers and factory labourers have been dispatched to farming areas around the country to join a fight against drought, state media reported …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS – The United States is pushing the U.N. Security Council to further sanction North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches by banning tobacco and …