President Joe Biden praised the cooperation between South Korea, Japan and the U_S_ at countering what he described as North Korea’s “dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia.”.

A South Korean court has handed opposition leader Lee Jae-myung a suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of violating election law.

President Joe Biden is beginning a six-day visit to Peru and Brazil for the final major international summits of his presidency.

South Korea's president has denied wrongdoing over a burgeoning influence-peddling scandal involving him and his wife.

South Korea has announced a package of steps to curb a surge in deepfake porn.

North Korea’s top diplomat is set to hold talks in Moscow following reports that Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to support Russia’s action in Ukraine.

North Korea says its top diplomat is visiting Russia, in another sign of their deepening relations as rival South Korea and Western nations express alarm at the North’s alleged deployment of thousands of troops to support Russia’s warfighting in Ukraine.

South Korea’s president has raised the possibility of supplying Ukraine with weapons while stressing that his government “won’t sit idle” as North Korea allegedly sends troops to support Russia’s aggression toward its neighbor.

South Korea’s spy agency says North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says North Korea’s recent disclosure of a nuclear facility was likely an attempt to grab U.S. attention ahead of the presidential election.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked.

South Korea has unveiled its most powerful ballistic missile that could target North Korea.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has visited Seoul and reaffirmed sympathy for the suffering of Koreans during Japan’s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counterpart Friday underscored the need to maintain warming ties between the Asian neighbors.

The leaders of South Korea and New Zealand have strongly condemned the deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia.

Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is going to South Korea to improve the two country's relations.

Olympic organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea’s athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony of the Paris Games.

South Korea’s president has appointed a prominent North Korean defector as a vice minister, the highest-level government job for any of the thousands of North Koreans who have resettled in South Korea.

North Korea has threatened to boost its nuclear fighting capability and make the United States and South Korea pay “an unimaginably harsh price” as it slams its rivals’ new defense guidelines that it says reveal an intention to invade the North.

The U.S. and South Korea signed new joint nuclear deterrence guidelines, weeks after North Korea and Russia struck a defense pact that raised concerns in the region about the North’s growing nuclear threats.

Four Indo-Pacific countries attending the NATO summit have issued a joint statement to “strongly condemn the illicit military cooperation” between Russia and North Korea.

A South Korean court says a man who stabbed the country's opposition leader in the neck earlier this year has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The newly inaugurated Freedom Edge exercise is wrapping up in the East China Sea, having brought together Japanese, South Korean and American naval assets for multidomain maneuvers for the first time.

South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South that are likely to be carrying trash.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has cracked walls and caused other minor damage in a fishing community in southwestern South Korea.

A South Korean activists’ group has flown large balloons carrying propaganda leaflets toward North Korea, which has threatened to send more balloons with manure and trash across the border in response.

South Korea's president says his country will expand development aid to Africa and pursue deeper cooperation with the region of 1.3 billion people on critical minerals and technology.

South Korea have taken steps to suspend a contentious military agreement with North Korea and resume front-line military activities.

North Korea says its attempt to put another spy satellite into orbit has failed.

China’s premier has agreed to revive three-way cooperation with South Korea and Japan in the face of shared challenges but issued a veiled rebuke against the two countries’ expanding security cooperation with the United States.

North Korea has announced plans to launch a rocket apparently carrying its second military spy satellite in the coming days.

The Japanese and South Korean leaders have raised sensitive topics like Taiwan, North Korea and the South China Sea as well as ways to boost cooperation, when they individually met China’s premier.

Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019.

Leading artificial intelligence companies made a fresh pledge at a mini-summit Tuesday to develop AI safely, while world leaders agreed to build a network of publicly backed safety institutes to advance research and testing of the technology.

South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence.

South Korea has vowed to protect its companies operating in other markets after Japanese regulators told LY Corp., which runs the popular chat app Line, to reduce its dependence on Naver, the Korean partner in the venture.

Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with largely peaceful rallies against rising prices and calling for greater rights.

South Korean voters have handed liberals extended opposition control of parliament in what looks like a massive political setback to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Asia stocks are mostly lower after gains for Big Tech shares helped U.S. stock indexes claw back much of their slide from the day before.

Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks fell on worries that what seemed like a blip in the battle to bring down inflation is turning into a troubling trend.

South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials have offered to resign after their conservative ruling party was crushed in parliamentary elections.

South Korea’s liberal opposition parties look set to win a landslide victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary election, vote counts showed.

As South Koreans head to the polls to elect a new 300-member parliament on this week, many are choosing their livelihoods and other domestic concerns as the most important election issues.

As South Koreans prepare to vote for a new 300-member parliament next week, many are choosing their livelihoods and other domestic topics as their most important election issues.

South Korea’s president has vowed not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors seeking to derail his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol lambasted North Korea Friday, for what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office says that presumed North Korean hackers breached the personal emails of one of his staff members ahead of Yoon's trip to Europe in November.

In abandoning his country’s decades-old aspirational goal of reconciliation with South Korea, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be revealing significant changes to the way he sees the world, as he navigates growing tensions with neighbors and exploits broader geopolitical shifts to gain leverage.

South Korea’s parliament has passed a landmark ban on production and sales of dog meat, as public calls for a prohibition have grown sharply over concerns about animal rights and the country’s international image.

South Korean police have raided the residence and office of a man who stabbed the country’s opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, in the neck this week.

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck by an unidentified man during a visit to the southeastern city of Busan.

King Charles III honored the K-pop band Blackpink.

King Charles III has hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife at a glittering banquet at Buckingham Palace, as Britain rolled out the red carpet for a formal state visit aimed at strengthening trade and defense ties between the two countries.

With wars raging in Europe and the Middle East, it can be hard for President Joe Biden to focus on Asia, even though that was his original foreign policy goal.

President Joe Biden has made America's case to CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit in San Francisco that the United States is committed to high standards in trade that will benefit economies across the Pacific.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will discuss international response to the purported North Korean-Russian weapons deal during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco this week.

The United States and South Korea have updated a bilateral security agreement to more effectively counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats.

King Charles III has immersed himself in London’s vibrant Korean scene before the state visit later this month of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Bereaved relatives of victims of last year’s devastating Halloween crush in Seoul and their supporters have demanded an independent investigation of the disaster as they marked the anniversary with a massive memorial service.

South Korea’s new defense minister says he would push to suspend a 2018 military agreement with North Korea on reducing tensions between the rivals, insisting that it hampers the South’s surveillance activities along their heavily armed border when the North’s nuclear threats are increasing.

A U.S. think tank says recent satellite photos show a sharp increase in rail traffic along the North Korea-Russia border, indicating the North is supplying munitions to Russia.

South Korea has paraded thousands of troops and an array of weapons capable of striking North Korea through its capital as part of its biggest Armed Forces Day ceremony in 10 years, as its president vowed to build a stronger military to thwart any provocation by the North.

South Korea’s president sounded a warning to fellow world leaders about the recent communication and possible cooperation between North Korea and Russia.

Five women state senators from South Carolina who formed a bipartisan coalition to filibuster a near-total abortion ban in their state have been chosen to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award this year.

South Korea’s president says the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he plans to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week.

South Korea’s president says he’ll tell world leaders about the need to faithfully enforce U.N. sanctions on North Korea when they converge in Indonesia and India for annual summits this week.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers have eaten Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Public fears and frustrations are being shared in Japan's neighboring countries about the release of treated radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear power plant.

President Joe Biden says former Obama administration attorney Ed Siskel is the new White House counsel.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a brief visit to the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to stress what he says is the safety of an impending release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will visit the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday before setting a release date for its treated radioactive wastewater, as his government continues working to promote understanding over the controversial plan at home and abroad.

President Joe Biden is keeping mum about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to name a special counsel in the investigation of his son Hunter Biden.

President Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea have agreed to expand security and economic ties at a historic summit Friday at the U.S. presidential retreat of Camp David.

President Joe Biden is set to welcome the leaders of Japan and South Korea for the first summit of his presidency at the Camp David presidential retreat.

President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David to encourage the U.S. allies, who have been thawing their frosty relationship, to cooperate more given their shared concerns about aggression from China and North Korea.

South Korea’s president has called for deeper security cooperation with the U_S_ and Japan to address North Korea's nuclear threat, saying his upcoming summit with the U_S_ and Japanese leaders at Camp David will “set a new milestone in trilateral cooperation.”.

The United States, Japan and South Korea are expected to announce plans for expanded military cooperation on ballistic missile defenses and technology development when their leaders meet at Camp David for a summit Friday.

Anxious about Japan’s impending release of treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, hundreds of South Koreans marched in their capital Saturday.

Tropical Storm Khanun has poured intense rain on South Korea and left at least one person dead before weakening as it reached major population centers near the capital.

South Korea is preparing to evacuate tens of thousands of scouts from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, scouting officials said Monday.

South Korea is plowing ahead with the World Scout Jamboree, rejecting a call by the world scouting body to cut it short.

The world scouting body is urging South Korea to cut short the World Scout Jamboree as thousands of British scouts have begun leaving the coastal campsite because of a punishing heat wave.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he has high hopes to discuss further strengthening of three-way strategic cooperation with the United States and South Korea at a summit hosted by President Joe Biden at Camp David later this month.

South Korean police have detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife in the city of Daejeon.

President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Japan and South Korea next month for a summit at Camp David.

The truce that stopped the bloodshed in the Korean War turns 70 on Thursday and the two Koreas are marking the anniversary in starkly different ways, underscoring their deepening nuclear tensions.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has overturned the impeachment of the public safety minister ousted over a Halloween crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people last October at a nightlife district in the capital, Seoul.

Rescuers are searching for nine people still missing in landslides and other incidents caused by a week of torrential rains in South Korea.

The United States has deployed a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time in four decades, as the allies warned North Korea that any use of the North's nuclear weapons in combat would result in the end of its regime.

Heavy downpours are lashing South Korea for a ninth day as rescue workers struggle to search for survivors in landslides, buckled homes and swamped vehicles in the most destructive storm to hit the country this year.

South Korean rescuers have pulled nine bodies from a flooded tunnel where around 15 vehicles were trapped in muddy water, as days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes across the country.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has made a surprise visit to Ukraine.

South Korea’s president says it’s time to clearly demonstrate strong international resolve to deter North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and he plans to discuss how to cope with the North’s expanding weapons arsenal with NATO leaders this week.

South Korean opposition lawmakers have sharply criticized the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog for its approval of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

South Korea’s government has formally endorsed the safety of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

South Korea has adopted a new law that changes how people count their ages.

Japan announced Tuesday a decision to reinstate South Korea as a preferred nation with fast-track trade status from July 21, virtually ending a four-year economic row that was strained during their bitter historic disputes.

Jill Biden will promote women and youth empowerment and plans to attend a royal wedding in Jordan during an upcoming trip to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

The leaders of South Korea and Germany have pledged more cooperation in building stable supply chains and addressing the challenges posed by nuclear-armed North Korea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has huddled with some of his biggest backers as the Group of Seven summit closed in Hiroshima.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is vowing to expand the country’s non-lethal aid to Ukraine as it fights Russian aggression.