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Pyongyang called the exercises “an act of seriously threatening the security” of North Korea that further destabilized the situation in the region, according to state media.

North Korea is formally abolishing a handful of key government agencies charged with promoting cooperation and reunification with the South, state media reported Tuesday.

Lee Jae-myung was attacked during a press conference in Busan.

New details have emerged regarding the final days of Parasite star Lee Sun-kyun, after his shock death shook Hollywood.

Lee, who has died aged 48, was a homegrown star who graduated to global fame in the multi-award-winning Parasite

North Korea's ambassador made a rare appearance at the UN Security Council on Monday to defend his country's launch of a spy satellite, as leader Kim Jong Un studied images including of the White House and Pentagon.

North Korea said Thursday it would deploy new weapons and stronger armed forces to the border with the South, as Seoul's spy agency said Pyongyang had received Russian help to successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit.

US soldier Travis King has been charged with desertion for crossing into North Korea and a raft of other crimes including assaulting fellow soldiers and soliciting child pornography, US media reported on Thursday.

The meeting marked the beginning of what the White House hopes will be an extended stretch of three-way engagement

North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after being disillusioned with the inequality of American society and racial discrimination in its Army.

North Korea is reported to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily-fortified border from South Korea without permission.

South Koreans have become a year or two younger as a new law aligns the nation's two traditional age-counting methods with international standards.

One country is paying its “lonely” young people a staggering $743 each and every month for a truly baffling reason.

 

The current law limits the work week to 40 hours plus up to 12 hours of compensated overtime – though in reality, critics say, many workers find themselves under pressure to work longer.

(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden said he isn’t currently discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea after that country’s president said his government wanted a more active role in managing atomic weapons on the Korean Peninsula.

The law passed Thursday will standardize the use of international age across all “judicial and administrative areas,” according to the parliament website and documents related to the bill.

North Korea’s terrifying recent acts of aggression have left the world on edge – but it could come back to bite dictator Kim Jong-un.

North and South Korea have fired a number of missiles into waters near each other's coasts in a marked escalation of hostilities.

North Korea has angered South Korea today with what has been described as “effectively a territorial invasion”.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided recent exercises by nuclear tactical operation units in response to large-scale navy drills by South Korean and U.S. forces, which have escalated regional tensions, KCNA state news agency said on Monday.