SEOUL, June 15 (Reuters): South Korea's President Moon Jae-in urged North Korea on Monday to refrain from raising tension and return to dialogue, after threats trumpeted by state media in Pyongyang to

SEOUL, June 10 (Reuters): A day after North Korea suspended communication hotlines with South Korea over defectors who send propaganda and contraband into the North, South Korea said it would take leg

SEOUL, June 9 (Reuters): North Korea said on Tuesday it would sever hotlines with South Korea as the first step toward shutting down all contact.   The decision, announced by the KCNA state news agen

GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters): A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at "widespread food shortages and malnutrition" in North Korea, made worse by a nearly five-month border clo

SEOUL, June 8 (Reuters): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un focused on domestic economic issues at a meeting of the politburo of the country's ruling Workers Party, state media said on Monday, as the Nort

SEOUL, JUNE 7 (IANS): The South Korean government said on Sunday it remains committed toward upholding the agreements between the leaders of the two Koreas amid threats from the North to shut down an inter-Kore

SEOUL, May 29 (Reuters): North Korea accused the United States of smear tactics on Friday after Washington renewed accusations last month that Pyongyang was responsible for malicious cyber attacks. &nbs

SEOUL, MAY 26 (IANS): North Korea's main newspaper on Tuesday warned its people against imitating foreign films and music, saying the inflow of "bourgeois culture" hinders the country from progres

SEOUL, May 26 (Reuters): Both North and South Korea violated the armistice agreement that governs their shared border when their troops exchanged gunfire on May 3, the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC)

Border-crossing lovers. Netflix   Sarah A. Son, University of Sheffield The Conversation    After the failure of talks between US president Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim