South Korea

Forget puppies, who need to be housebroken and sometimes chew your shoes. The government in South Korea, looking to help people fight the mental strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic, is turning to plants.

North Korea says its leader, Kim Jong Un, has suspended planned military retaliation against South Korea for stalemated relations and anti-North activism

As tensions ratchet up between the two nations, North Korea is preparing to flood the South with “mountain-high” piles of propaganda leaflets denouncing the South Korean president and North Korean defectors, state media in the country reported Saturday. Many of the leaflets will feature the face of South Korean President Moon Jae-in smeared with cigarette butts, an insult insinuating he is trash,...

South Korea’s president has accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations

North Korea says it will send soldiers to now-shuttered inter-Korean tourism and economic sites in its territory, reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at front-line areas

North Korea has blown up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea

South Korea’s president has urged North Korea to stop raising animosities and return to talks amid mounting worries about potential provocation by North Korea

South Korea has convened an emergency security meeting and urged North Korea to uphold reconciliation agreements, hours after the North threatened to demolish a liaison office and take military action against its rival

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened South Korea with military action as she bashed Seoul over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.

North Korea says it is cutting off all communication channels with South Korea

No Human, no problem. Take a look at this robot pour drinks at a bar in South Korea.

South Korea ended its stringent social distancing policies Wednesday after halting the spread of the coronavirus. But although sports fans will soon be allowed to return to stadiums and as museums and libraries began to reopen, life remains far from normal. Thermal scanners at theme parks, shopping for makeup while wearing masks and constant tracking of people’s whereabouts through apps...

South Korea says it protested to North Korea over the exchange of gunfire inside their heavily fortified border.

South Korea says its troops fired warning shots toward North Korea along their tense border in the first such incident since the rivals took unprecedented steps to lower front-line animosities

A top South Korean official says his country is confident there have been no unusual developments in North Korea, suggesting that rumors about the possible ill health of leader Kim Jong Un are untrue

South Korea has sent coronavirus testing kits to the U.S. after President Donald Trump requested them from South Korean President Moon Jae-In on March 25.

South Korea’s military says a barrage of North Korean missiles fired from the ground and fighter jets has splashed down in the waters off the country’s east coast — a major show of force on the eve of a key state anniversary in the North and parliamentary elections in the rival South

South Korea says North Korea has fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, calling it “very inappropriate” at a time when the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic.

South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired three unidentified projectiles off its eastern coast.

Nations around the world girded for months of disruptions from the new virus Thursday as its unrelenting spread brought ballooning infections, economic fallout and sweeping containment measures.