Former President Yoon Suk Yeol faces an insurrection​ charge after his failed attempt to put his country under martial law in 2024.

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday South Korea's hope for an improvement in relations is an illusion that cannot be realised, state media KCNA reported.

The drone was equipped with two cameras that filmed unspecified areas, the General Staff of the North Korean People's Army said.

S. Korea's presidential office convened a working-level National Security Council coordination meeting after N. Korea claimed it shot down drones

And yet: some observers wonder whether a society as patriarchal as North Korea’s could accept a female leader. Under Mr Kim, several women have gained big jobs. The second-most powerful person in the country is Mr Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong. For the first time in its history North Korea has a female foreign minister: Choe Son Hui.

The supplier of high-bandwidth-memory products to Nvidia plans to build the chip packaging plant in Cheongju, south of Seoul amid surging demand for artificial-intelligence chips.

S. Korean President Lee on Sat ordered a joint military-police investigation, saying any confirmed civilian operation would amount to a serious crime.

North Korea has lashed out at a special sanctions monitoring team composed of multiple countries, calling its activities "illegal" and irrelevant to the United Nations, state media KCNA reported on Monday.

The sport has become something of an athletic arbitrage for the country, which figures other nations won’t subject preteens to such arduous training.