Japan is to consider revising its landmark apology for its wartime system of sex slavery, a top official said Monday, in a move likely to draw fury in South Korea and beyond.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is keen to nudge key Asian allies South Korea and Japan to improve deeply strained relations, a State Department official said Thursday as Kerry flew into Seoul.
South Korea and the United States said Monday they would begin joint military drills on February 24, overlapping with a planned North-South Korea families' reunion which Pyongyang has already threatened to cancel.
South Korea called in the Japanese ambassador to Seoul on Tuesday to lodge a formal protest over school teaching manual revisions bolstering Tokyo's claim to a set of disputed tiny islets.
Japanese education chiefs will instruct schools to teach children that islands at the centre of disputes with China and South Korea belong unequivocally to Tokyo, the government said Tuesday.
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on Monday departed for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for talks with his counterpart on increasing military and defense industry cooperation between the two countries, his ministry said.
South Korea on Sunday declared an expanded air defence zone that overlaps with one recently announced by China that has sharply increased regional tensions.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se warned Wednesday that mounting territorial competition could trigger a rapid deterioration of the security situation in Northeast Asia.
South Korean and Chinese defense officials will meet Thursday for talks likely to cover the contentious issue of China's establishment of a new air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, which overlaps those of South Korea and Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported Monday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has the capability to build uranium-based nuclear bombs, South Korea's defense chief said Wednesday, according to local media reports.
South Korea on Monday kicked off the three-day regional security forum in its capital Seoul to discuss how to curb proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and growing cyber threats.
South Korea on Monday urged North Korea to identify a South Korean citizen it said it had arrested for espionage, as a newspaper report suggested the detained man was a missionary.
An official says six South Koreans recently repatriated home from North Korea had sneaked into the North in search of better lives but ended up detained for up to 45 months for illegal entry.
North Korea will return six unidentified South Koreans across the two countries' heavily-militarised land border, it said in a surprise announcement Thursday.
North Korea on Monday lashed out at a new military pact between the South and the US aimed at guarding against potential nuclear attacks and threatened a "final destruction".
South Korea displayed its longest-range missile capable of striking all of North Korea and other sophisticated weapons at a massive military ceremony Tuesday, a display of force meant to show Pyongyang that any provocation would be met with strong retaliation.
South Korea staged its largest military display for a decade on Tuesday, as President Park Geun-Hye warned of the "very grave" threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
Tehran,YJC. -- South Korea launched a military drill Monday with the United States against a simulated North Korean invasion, even as a recent easing of tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang gathered momentum.
Tehran, YJC. -- North and South Korea will hold a seventh round of talks Wednesday on reopening their joint industrial park in Kaesong, with a lot more than the future of the complex riding on the outcome.