Hundreds of people in the United States and around the world were charged Wednesday in a bust of what the Department of Justice is calling the internet’s largest cache of child porn.
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North Korea held South Korea to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in a World Cup qualifying soccer match, though it is unclear how many people saw the game in Pyongyang.
Read moreA popular K-pop star who had long been the target of abusive online comments was found dead at her home Monday, South Korean police said.
Read moreSouth Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in a private briefing Tuesday that nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea will likely resume within two to three weeks, according to one of the lawmakers who attended the session.
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South Korea’s top court on Thursday sent jailed ex-President Park Geun-hye’s corruption case back to a lower court for separate trials on the charges on which she was convicted, a ruling that could increase her already-lengthy prison term.
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South Korea will stop exchanging classified intelligence on North Korea with Japan amid a bitter trade dispute, an official said Thursday, a surprise announcement that is likely to set back U.S. efforts to bolster security cooperation with two of its most important allies in Asia.
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North Korea on Friday bluntly criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in for continuing to hold military exercises with the United States and for his rosy comments on inter-Korean diplomacy, and said Pyongyang has no plans to talk with Seoul.
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South Korea said Monday that it will remove Japan from a list of nations receiving preferential treatment in trade in what is seen as a tit-for-tat move after Tokyo’s recent decision to downgrade Seoul’s trade status amid a diplomatic row.
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North Korea on Tuesday said U.S.-South Korean war games are a “flagrant violation” of efforts to reach peace on the Korean peninsula and reflect a lack of “political will” to improve relations.
Read moreNorth Korea launched “multiple unidentified projectiles” on Wednesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, days after firing two missiles as a warning over Seoul’s plan for military drills with the United States.
Read moreSouth Korean air force jets fired 360 rounds of warning shots after a Russian military plane briefly violated South Korea’s airspace twice on Tuesday, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries.
Read moreNorth Korea on Thursday fired at least one unidentified projectile from the country’s western area, South Korea’s military said, the North’s second weapons launch in the last five days and a warning that nuclear disarmament talks with Washington could be in danger.
Read moreIn a major reversal, South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the easing of the country’s decades-old ban on most abortions, one of the strictest in the developed world.
Read moreSouth Korean police on Thursday arrested K-pop singer Jung Joon-young over allegations that he illegally shared sexually explicit videos of women taken without their knowledge or consent.
Read morePolice on Thursday questioned two K-pop stars over interlocking sex scandals that have fascinated South Korea and prompted both men to announce they are retiring from the entertainment industry.
Read moreSouth Korea and the U.S. on Friday formally signed a deal on Seoul’s increased payment for the U.S. troop deployment, amid worries about the future of the countries’ decades-long military alliance.
Read moreAs President Donald Trump seeks a nuclear deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week in Vietnam, some in Seoul are wondering if the fate of Washington’s decades-long military alliance with South Korea could be at stake.
Read moreAccusing Christie’s of bad faith, a South Korean gallery claims in a pair of lawsuits that the storied auction house sold a Francis Bacon painting at a “bargain-basement price.”
Read moreNorth Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song Gil, went into hiding with his wife in November, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in Seoul on Thursday. A high-profile defection by one of North Korea’s elite would be a huge embarrassment for leader Kim Jong Un as he pursues diplomacy with Seoul and Washington and seeks to portray himself as a player in international geopolitics.
Read moreSouth Korea said Friday it’s responding to a hacking attack that stole the names and addresses of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors who resettled in the South.
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