The presidential office denied Thursday the opposition's claims that the National Security Council (NSC) had ordered the military to send a drone into North Korea last year. Lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) claimed that a senior NSC official directly ordered the

Acting President Choi says Seoul will manage tensions, especially in border areas, to prevent escalation with Pyongyang - Anadolu Ajansı

North Korea condemned on Friday joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by

Two North Korean soldiers are in custody in Kyiv, bandaged up and under interrogation, after being wounded on the battlefield in Kursk, Russia, over the weekend. Officials in Kyiv and Seoul are hoping they can provide valuable information into a secretive country's military operations.

South Korea's military said it had detected multiple test missiles launched by Pyongyang towards the Sea of Japan. North Korea had tested a ballistic missile just a week ago.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang has acknowledged that North Koreans have been ... nearly 3,000 North Korean soldiers had been "killed or wounded" fighting for Russia. Seoul put the figure at 1,000. The NIS told the country's lawmakers last month that ...

North Korea launched the missile towards the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, South Korean news agency Yonhap cited the general staff in Seoul as saying. The launch comes a week after North Korea launched what it said was a "new-type intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile".

He said the US-South Korean alliance remains strong, despite domestic political issues in Seoul. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NK nuclear SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- Returning U.S. President Donald Trump's reference to North Korea as a "nuclear power" might be aimed at paving the way for resuming talks between Washington and Pyongyang,

South Korea's intelligence service on Sunday backed up Ukraine's account of having captured two wounded North Korean soldiers in Russia, after Kyiv said they were being questioned.

The latest missile test coincided with Takeshi Iwaya’s visit, the first by a Japanese foreign minister in seven years, to Seoul for talks on trilateral cooperation with the US. Mr Iwaya met his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae Yul on Monday. He condemned the North’s nuclear and missile development, and pledged to boost security ties with Seoul.