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In 2013, some 32,000 computers in South Korean banks and broadcasters were compromised by a major cyberattack from a Chinese IP address, though South Korean media reported suspicions that the attack was orchestrated by North Korea.

Park and Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, did not hold specific consultations on sanctions the United Nations could impose on North Korea in case Pyongyang launches a long-range rocket, Ju said.

Lee was initially charged with the killing and sentenced to life in prison, which was later reduced to 20 years in an appeals court.

This week activists in South Korea launched balloons full of anti-Kim Jong Un leaflets across the border into the north. In the past, Pyongyang called the balloon launches provocations and demanded they be stopped before any inter-Korean engagement efforts could proceed.

North Korea has deployed six more patrol vessels near the sea border with South Korea as Pyongyang continues its campaign to invalidate the maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea. The information was announced by a member of the National Assembly’s Public Administration &...

In the past, United Nations human rights investigators have said inmates in camps have suffered starvation, torture and other atrocities.

It also stressed that it has a “sovereign right” to strengthen nuclear deterrence for self-defense and to push for a satellite launch, which many suspect would be a long-range rocket test to advance its missile technology.

North Korea could be separating isotopes used to manufacture sophisticated and more powerful nuclear bombs, United States experts warned Wednesday, after Pyongyang announced its main atomic weapons complex was fully operational. Furthermore, later that year, the country...

On 15 September it released a statement by the director of its Atomic Energy Institute insisting that all of its Yongbyon facilities had “started normal operations”.

Following all-night talks between the Red Cross branches of North and South Korea, both countries agreed on Tuesday to hold a reunion for families separated by the Korean War.

North Korea demanded Monday that United States troops be pulled out from South Korea, saying USA military presence in the South is a pretext for “ceaseless north-targeted saber-rattling”.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s certification scores surged following the deal, that most South Korean mass media retailers held up for being come out on top for her emotional positioning resistant to the North.

By skipping the event, Western leaders are attempting to signal their displeasure with what they see as Chinese aggression in the East and South China Seas.

A deal has been signed between North and South Korea to reduce tension on border, media reported on Tuesday.

The marathon negotiations have pushed aside warnings of imminent war on the Korean peninsula, but South Korea said its neighbour continues to prepare for conflict and has doubled the strength of its frontline artillery forces.