The armed forces of South Korea began what they confirmed will be daily, unceasing loudspeaker broadcasts on the border with North Korea on Friday, typically featuring anti-communist content, news banned by the Kim regime, and South Korean popular music.
South Korean media revealed on Tuesday that senior North Korean diplomat Ri Il-kyu, 52, defected from the North Korean embassy in Cuba in November.
According to North Korean state media, dictator Kim Jong-un sent a message of sympathy to former president Donald Trump and his family on Saturday night after the failed assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday issued a statement condemning North Korea’s weapons exports to Russia and expressing concern about the alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is expected to participate in this week’s NATO summit and pressure NATO to monitor North Korea.
South Korean officials reported that North Korea has ordered all of its overseas students to return home for “political indoctrination.”
Authorities in Seoul, South Korea, confirmed the deaths of nine people and at least six injured on Monday after a driver rammed into them.
The Chinese Communist regime in Beijing announced new regulations on Monday that will empower its officials to inspect smartphones and other personal electronics at will, including those belonging to foreign visitors.
Multiple outlets in Ukraine and South Korea reported this week that communist North Korea is preparing to send military engineers to aid the Russian invasion of Ukraine – reports Pyongyang has not confirmed at press time, but the Pentagon addressed on Tuesday as concerning.
A major fire at a lithium battery plant in South Korea killed approximately 23 workers on Monday at a building owned by manufacturer Aricell.
The Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS), a South Korean state-managed think tank, published a report this week suggesting that the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol should consider developing a nuclear weapons arsenal in response to North Korea signing a mutual defense treaty with Russia.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin sent a letter to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un thanking him for a warm welcome in Pyongyang.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a “demographic national emergency” and promised to spare no effort in increasing birth rates.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin said South Korea deciding to offer weapons aid to Ukraine would be a “very big mistake,” threatening “respective decisions” that would anger Seoul in remarks on Thursday responding to South Korea announcing it would consider arming Ukraine.
South Korea expressed “grave concern” about Russia’s defense pact with North Korea and is considering supplying arms to Ukraine in response.
A Russian court sentenced U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black to a penal colony for allegedly robbing and threatening to murder his girlfriend.
Landmines reportedly killed North Korean troops working near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) despite South Korean troops firing warning shots.
North Korea confirmed that Vladimir Putin is expected to arrive in Pyongyang for a brief but intensive two-day stop.
North Korea is believed to possess 50 nuclear weapons – 20 more than in the past year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed in its annual report published on Monday on global militaries.
BTS and fans celebrated on Wednesday, as the group’s oldest member, Jin, was honorably discharged from the South Korean military.
South Korea confirmed that between 20 and 30 North Korean soldiers crossed the inter-Korean border, violating the sovereignty of the country.
South Korea installed massive loudspeakers on its border with North Korea and broadcast news, political messages, and pop music for the first time in a decade on Sunday in response to Pyongyang dumping hundreds of balloons filled with feces and trash over its neighbor this month.
The government of North Korea said on Sunday that it will stop sending balloons loaded with trash and manure into South Korea, ostensibly because the regime in Pyongyang thinks the trash balloon campaign accomplished its objectives. South Korea was not mollified, and said on Monday it will suspend a 2018 military pact as the first of its “unendurable” retaliatory measures.
North Korea sent a swarm of balloons, loaded with garbage and feces, across the border, triggering air raid sirens in South Korea.
The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, signed a “Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)” alongside South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul on Wednesday, dramatically expanding trade between the two countries.
North Korea on Monday lashed out at South Korea, Japan, and even Pyongyang’s patron China for supporting the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at a summit in Seoul.
Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his officials to begin a “complete review” of all federal birth rate policies.
An Australian Navy helicopter pilot was forced to take evasive action after a Chinese military fighter jet detonated flares close to his aircraft’s course as it was operating in international waters near South Korea.
Officials with the South Korean military confirmed on Monday that communist North Korea had littered roads between North and South Korea with landmines and begun taking down streetlights installed on them.
Seoul, South Korea – the capital of the nation with the world’s lowest fertility rate – launched a survey on Wednesday asking residents if they approved of an idea to pay 100 million won in cash (about $72,500) to parents for every baby their family welcomes.
North Korea’s flagship state propaganda arm claimed in a report on Tuesday that communist dictator Kim Jong-un personally led what it called a “combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear counterattack.”
Multiple senior members of conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration and the head of his People Power Party (PPP) tendered their resignations on Thursday after vote counts confirmed that the left-wing Democratic Party decisively took over the National Assembly in Wednesday’s midterm election.
Exit polls in South Korea’s midterm elections on Wednesday predicted a landslide win for the left-wing Democratic Party (DP) and its “sister party,” the Democratic United Party (DUP).
Conservatives in South Korea urged voters to help them stop an “immoral and shameless” left from taking a majority in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the eve of midterm elections preceded by a chaotic campaign season featuring stabbings, corruption allegations, and alleged North Korean interference.
The governments of South Korea and Japan confirmed on Tuesday that communist North Korea fired a projectile believed to be carrying a “hypersonic warhead” and potentially capable of striking the American island of Guam.
About 10,000 trainee doctors in South Korea entered their second month of a nationwide strike in late March, forcing hospitals into “emergency mode” and shutting down critical sectors, including emergency wards, Korean news agencies confirmed Wednesday and Thursday.
North Korea reportedly fired several ballistic missiles on Monday, an apparent gesture of “welcome” to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
North Korean state media claimed on Thursday that dictator Kim Jong-un personally drove a new model tank to “stormy cheers of hurrah” during exercises to prepare for a land war, presumably with South Korea.
South Korea seeks early renewal of a defense agreement, anticipating Donald Trump will return to office and demand much higher contributions.
The Interior Ministry of South Korea confirmed that it “intends to take administrative action” against thousands of striking doctors.
