North Korea
Seoul Approves Civilian Contact With North Korea
Contacts between North and South Korea are extremely limited, and their tense shared border is one of the few places it...
US Fears Nuclear Arms Race In Asia-Pacific
Senior Trump administration officials fear a nuclear arms race in Asia-Pacific if an increasingly belligerent North...
US Lawmakers Propose Ban On Tourist Visits To North Korea
US lawmakers submitted a bill Thursday to tightly restrict travel and ban tourism to North Korea, citing the risk that...
Is It A Drone? Is It A Balloon? No, It’s A Bird, Says N.Korea
North Korea on Thursday accused the South of unleashing more than 450 machine gun rounds at a flock of birds in an...
US Warship Sails Near South China Sea Reef Claimed By Beijing
A US warship sailed near a reef claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea on Thursday, a US official said, the first...
US Warship Sails Close To Disputed Mischief Reef
A US warship has sailed close to an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea, the first challenge to...
Jury Out On North Korea Link To Ransomware Attack
Was North Korea behind the ransomware epidemic that hit global computer networks earlier this month? That's the subject...
North Korea Can Fire Its Ballistic Missile From ANYWHERE, Images Show
North Korea's latest missile launch showed that the county's military is able to operate weapons from anywhere in the...
N. Korea Balloons Prompted Warning Shots
Flying objects that prompted South Korean forces to fire warning shots this week appeared to be balloons carrying...
Trump Praises Duterte’s ‘great Job’ In Philippine Drug War
US President Donald Trump praised his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte over his immensely polarizing drug war,...
Trump Calls North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un ‘madman With Nuclear Weapons’
President Donald Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un a "madman with nuclear weapons" during a telephone call...
China’s UN Envoy Says ‘no Reason’ Not To Talk With N.Korea
China's UN ambassador said Tuesday that there was "no reason" to refuse dialogue with North Korea despite a series of...
China’s Trade With N.Korea Falls As Pressure Mounts
China's imports from North Korea fell in April to a near three-year low, data showed Tuesday, as Beijing faces calls to...
S. Korea Fires Warning Shots At Object Flown From N. Korea
South Korea fired warning shots Tuesday at a flying object that entered the country's airspace from North Korea across...
N.Korea ‘flatly Rejects’ UN Vow To Tighten Sanctions
North Korea on Tuesday "flatly rejected" a United Nations statement vowing to punish its latest banned missile test...
China Hails New US Ambassador’s ‘positive Role’
China welcomed on Tuesday the US Senate's confirmation of Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as US ambassador to Beijing,...
North Korea-Linked Hackers ‘highly Likely’ Behind WannaCry
The Lazarus hacking group, widely believed to be connected to North Korea, is "highly likely" responsible for the...
Why Korea’s ‘film Noir’ Movies Are Wowing Cannes
Beyond the gleaming towers of modern high-tech Seoul, it is the dark past of South Korea's years of dictatorship,...
Branstad, Friend of Beijing, Confirmed As US Envoy To China
The US Senate on Monday confirmed Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as the next ambassador to Beijing, providing President...