SEOUL: Two North Korean prisoners of war held in Ukraine have pleaded to live in South Korea, a human rights organisation ...

One prisoner had already asked to live in South Korea when visited by one of the country’s lawmakers in February.

Around 10,000 North Korean troops were sent in 2024 to fight for Russia in its war against Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Lee has called for a phased approach to denuclearising North Korea, starting with engagement and a freeze on further development of nuclear weapons.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Gyeongju on Saturday (1 November), marking Xi’s ...

MOSCOW, November 1. /TASS/. Donald Trump’s team advocates for the resumption of US nuclear tests; Slovakia signals readiness to join Hungary and Czech Republic in an anti-Ukraine EU bloc; and South ...

North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine express desire to defect to South Korea, citing poor conditions in Russian military ...

South Korea is hosting this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the southeastern city of Gyeongju. Beyond the ...

China operates its nuclear submarines in the East and South China Seas, as well as the western Pacific, and with South Korea ...

Trump and Xi have left the site of the meeting in Busan. Trump just boarded Air Force One to head back to Washington, waving ...

But President Donald Trump ’s back-to-back announcements about nuclear testing and nuclear submarines on Oct. 29 during his trip to South Korea could turn the nuclear weapons world upside down.

As the US and China edge toward another high-stakes showdown, Trump’s scramble for rare earths and soybean trade deals reveals the economic and political stakes stretching from American farms to Asian ...