South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) warned lawmakers in the country that it has reason to believe communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is preparing to escalate Pyongyang’s involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the genocidal jihadist terror group Hamas, ordering “comprehensive” support for the terrorists.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told the Qatar News Agency that Seoul is seeking to expand defense cooperation with Qatar.
The governments of Saudi Arabia and South Korea published an extensive joint statement on Tuesday in which they addressed the ongoing aftermath of a barbaric massacre of civilians in Israel by the genocidal jihadist group Hamas, urging full protection for civilians in Israel and Hamas-controlled territories and “durable peace.”
A top South Korean official told reporters on Sunday that his government is in the “final stage” of an agreement to foster “large-scale defense industry cooperation” between Seoul and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Reuters reported that the U.S. Army has levied eight criminal charges against Private 2nd Class Travis King, who ran into North Korea.
Israeli Ambassador to South Korea Akiva Tor said Saturday that Hamas terrorists have North Korean weapons in their huge hidden stockpiles.
North Korea adopted an amendment to its Constitution that formally declared the country a “responsible nuclear weapons state” in an attempt to make its illegal nuclear program permanent, state media announced on Thursday.
President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, thanked China on Wednesday for its alleged role in helping return Private 2nd Class Travis King to the United States from North Korea, suggesting Washington required the aid of an adversarial communist government to rescue a U.S. soldier.
United States Space Force Commander Gen. Chance Saltzman said that collaborating on space exploration with China would reduce tensions.
U.S. officials said on Wednesday that U.S. Army Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King is back in American custody after the North Korean regime expelled him.
North Korea’s ambassador to the U.N. blames U.S. “hysteria” for driving the Korean Peninsula to “the brink of nuclear war.”
South Korea on Tuesday held its first major military parade in a decade to celebrate its 75th Armed Forces Day and flex its defensive muscle against North Korea.
South Korea will allow male video game players who win a gold medal at this year’s Asian Games, which began on Monday, to avoid mandatory military service, outraging fans of boy band superstars BTS who argue that the feat of becoming the country’s most successful music act in history is more deserving.
President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea stressed economic development, climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and North Korean missiles at the U.N.
Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party (DP), was hospitalized on Monday due to deteriorating health from a hunger strike he began almost three weeks ago.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday night to invite North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un to meet “face to face” without preconditions.
The United States and Iran exchanged prisoners on Monday, largely completing a deal that also included President Joe Biden unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian assets that have been held in South Korean banks since former President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.
Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said talks with China to build a new nuclear plant would be completed “in a few months’ time.”
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday approved a $5 billion sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to South Korea.
The South Korean Defense Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that a train carrying North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un had crossed into Russia, apparently navigating towards the far east of that country for an in-person meeting with strongman Vladimir Putin.
North Korea claimed to launch its first nuclear attack submarine on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by a very excited Kim Jong-un.
A Greek shipping company has pleaded guilty to smuggling sanctioned Iranian crude oil and agreed to pay a $2.4 million fine.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio dined on Fukushima seafood to show the fish are safe after the release of treated wastewater.
The communist government of North Korea revealed on Thursday that it held multiple military exercises aimed at practicing nuclear weapons assaults on South Korea and “occupying the whole territory” of the country.
South Korea’s Coast Guard confirmed this week that it had arrested a man from China attempting to enter the country on a jet ski. In remarks on Wednesday, a human rights campaigner confirmed that the man in question was anti-communist dissident Kwon Pyong, who served an 18-year prison sentence in 2017 for wearing an anti-Xi Jinping shirt.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday it could take up to two months to complete the “process” of releasing five American hostages after President Joe Biden’s reported $6 billion ransom payment.
The trilateral summit between the United States, South Korea, and Japan at Camp David, Maryland, on Friday produced several joint statements reaffirming the commitment of the three free nations to stand for Taiwan’s freedom, denuclearize North Korea, keep the Indo-Pacific free, and support human rights.
Researchers in the United States and Europe this week dashed hopes that a South Korean team had discovered a room-temperature superconductor.
John Kirby, the White House National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications, told the Japanese outlet Kyodo News on Thursday that President Joe Biden is open to holding an in-person meeting with communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un “without preconditions.”
Chinese officials on Thursday seethed over the trilateral U.S.-South Korea-Japan summit scheduled to be held at Camp David on Friday.
China’s state-run National Business Daily reported Tuesday the nationwide fertility rate dropped to 1.09, a shockingly low number.
The communist government of North Korea published a report through state media on Wednesday confirming the presence of American Private 2nd Class Travis King in the country and claiming that he had illegally crossed into it to flee racism.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry said Friday it had “no information” about President Joe Biden’s plan to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets from South Korean banks to pay ransom for five American hostages.
North Korea must make “full war preparations” to “overwhelmingly contain and destroy the enemy,” communist dictator Kim Jong-un demanded in a meeting of his top military leaders on Wednesday.
South Korean police announced increased patrols, stop-and-search operations on the streets, and other precautions after the relatively placid country’s second knife rampage in two days and a string of attacks and threats over the past three weeks.
The South Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics (KSSC) announced on Thursday it will establish a committee to investigate a claim by the Quantum Energy Research Center, a private research institute in Seoul, that it has achieved room-temperature superconductivity.
Police outside a subway station in Seongnam, South Korea, responded to an emergency incident on Thursday evening local time in which a man drove his car into a pedestrian walkway, then got out and began stabbing bystanders, multiple reports detailed.
ABC News reported on Tuesday that North Korea recently recognized the crossing of U.S. soldier Travis King into its territory and claimed the “incident is under investigation.”
The South Korean Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that high-level diplomats from South Korea and Italy met in Rome to discuss enhanced bilateral cooperation on economic and security issues.
A lack of demand among youth and growing global disgust as the nation amasses cultural and economic prestige are forcing South Korea to reconsider its longstanding tradition of consuming dog meat – a custom it has never regulated legally, the Associated Press detailed in a report on Monday.
