After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected ...

Yoon faces life imprisonment or even the death penalty, and the future of South Korea’s politics and democracy hangs in the balance. Some of those politics may feel eerily similar for U.S ...

South Korea President Yoon indicted for insurrection over martial law decree Asia Pacificcategory· January 26, 2025 A top South Korean military commander said on Tuesday he trusted President Yoon ...

Park Jong-joon, the chief of the presidential security service, arrives at the Joint Investigation Headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (Lim Hwa-young/Yonhap via AP) Security ...

WASHINGTON − President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon upset key U.S. ally South Korea Tuesday when he labeled North Korea a "nuclear power" in a statement submitted to a ...

The Republic of Korea was formed in the South in August 1948. Its first president was Syngman Rhee, a convert to Christianity who was educated at an American Methodist school. The Democratic ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol said the rule of law in the country had “completely ...

The short-range missiles landed in the Sea of Japan, South Korea said. SEOUL and TOKYO -- North Korea launched "several short-range ballistic missiles," that landed in the Sea of Japan Tuesday ...

Ukraine, the United States and South Korea have accused nuclear-armed North Korea of sending more than 10,000 soldiers to help bolster Russian forces. Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS ...

“North Korea on Tuesday (January 14, 2025) test-fired at least one unidentified projectile toward its eastern waters,” South Korea’s military said, as it continued its weapons demonstrations ...

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said it began in the plane’s tail. Footage aired by local broadcaster YTN shows evacuation slides deployed on both sides of the single-aisle plane, with ...

BUSAN: The Japan-South Korea-United States relationship has been strong for the past few years, thanks to a happy domestic alignment that currently exists. In Japan, where the left is rarely ...