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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol answers questions during a press conference at the Presidential Office in Seoul on Thursday. Photo: AFP

South Korea’s Ukraine support strategy shifts with Trump’s re-election

Seoul’s pivot away from weapons shipments comes amid tepid public support for the move – and Trump’s vow to negotiate an end to the war.

12 Nov 2024 - 12:25PMvideocam

Opinion | Trump will ask Asia-Pacific what it can offer. Leaders must think hard

11 Nov 2024 - 7:08AMvideocam

Opinion | South Korea may find itself stranded as North Korea’s sole adversary

10 Nov 2024 - 9:44PMvideocam

North Korea’s GPS jamming attacks disrupt flights, ships in Seoul

The South’s military warned vessels and aircraft operating in the Yellow Sea to be cautious, urging Pyongyang to cease its provocations.

9 Nov 2024 - 2:18PMvideocam

A soldier stands at a North Korean military guard post, seen from Paju, South Korea. Photo: AP

Asian Angle | Why Southeast Asia should worry about North Korean troops in Russia

The arrival of North Korean troops in Russia threatens to worsen and prolong the conflict in Ukraine, which would not be good for Southeast Asia.

9 Nov 2024 - 10:00AMvideocam

Opinion | US-China war diplomacy vital as North Korea complicates Ukraine fray

The scale and speed of Pyongyang’s reported troop deployment to Russia strongly suggests premeditation. The US and China must act to prevent escalation.

8 Nov 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

Trump’s victory is ‘good news’ for North Korea. But will Kim denuclearise?

Trump and Kim met twice in Singapore in 2018 and Hanoi in 2019 but the summits failed to yield a commitment by Pyongyang to denuclearise.

8 Nov 2024 - 3:37PM

Then-US President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea on June 30, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | North Korea’s support for Russia won’t be a game changer in Ukraine

Pyongyang’s support for Russia is part of a public relations campaign for Kim Jong-un, who has his eye on Russian supplies and tech.

7 Nov 2024 - 6:01AMvideocam

Starbucks serves up glimpses into North Korea with new café near the border

A new branch of the coffee shop chain will offer patrons rare glimpses across the North Korean frontier from Gimpo’s Jogang Observatory.

6 Nov 2024 - 9:00AM

How rise of Kim Jong-un’s daughter raises questions on North Korea’s leadership

Kim Jong-un’s daughter is emerging in the public eye, but her future leadership role in North Korea remains a mystery.

5 Nov 2024 - 9:18AMvideocam

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his daughter Ju-ae visit the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers’ Party of Korea last month. Photo: KCNA via KNS/AFP

Can Japan-China talks change course on North Korea’s alliance with Russia?

Meeting aims to address growing security challenges, but analysts say Beijing is unlikely to be able to influence Pyongyang’s actions.

4 Nov 2024 - 5:02PM

Portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin are seen near national flags of North Korea and Russia in Pyongyang in June. Photo: TNS

US nuclear bomber joins drills with S. Korea, Japan after Pyongyang missile test

South Korea’s military said the drills showed the resolve of the ROK and the US to strengthen their deterrence against North Korea.

3 Nov 2024 - 3:02PM

Opinion | North Korea’s missile test days before US election sends powerful message

No isolated act of aggression, the missile test was a calculated show of a strengthened alliance and a preview of mounting challenges.

3 Nov 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

North Korea says South’s president has raised risk of nuclear war

A white paper from Pyongyang lays the blame for tensions squarely with South Korea’s president.

3 Nov 2024 - 9:13AMvideocam

People visit the Mansu Hill to lay flowers to the bronze statues of former North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang. File photo: AP

North Korean troops at Ukraine border drive EU to deepen East Asian defence ties

EU envoy Josep Borrell is in Asia to sign defence partnerships with Japan and South Korea while highlighting their ‘interlinked’ security.

2 Nov 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani, right, shakes hands with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Tokyo on Friday. Photo: Kyodo News via AP

North Korea to stand by Russia until ‘victory’ in Ukraine, expand nuclear arsenal

Comments from North Korea’s foreign minister comes as the US warns thousands of Pyongyang’s troops could be deployed to the Ukraine conflict.

1 Nov 2024 - 7:43PMvideocam

North Korea says record test was new Hwasong-19 ICBM

North Korea lauded the Hwasong-19 that was test-fired Thursday as ‘the world’s strongest strategic missile’.

1 Nov 2024 - 4:25PMvideocam

Amid Ukraine war tensions, Pyongyang’s ICBM test may be sign of things to come

Missile test is Pyongyang’s way of showing its deepening ‘nuclear alliance’ with Russia and a message to the US ahead of the election, analysts say.

1 Nov 2024 - 9:37AMvideocam

An image released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Thursday shows the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile during a test-fire at an undisclosed location in the country. Photo: KCNA via KNS / AFP

Dozens of North Koreans ‘vanish’ after being caught trying to defect

TJWG report says 80 per cent of disappearances occurred inside North Korea, rest in China or Russia.

31 Oct 2024 - 12:23PMvideocam

North Korea’s Kim says longest ICBM test is a warning to enemies

Missile on Thursday recorded a flight time of 87 minutes, longer than the last ICBM test launch in December 2023.

31 Oct 2024 - 1:51PMvideocam

North Korean troops in Russian uniforms are heading toward Ukraine, US says

Some advance units have already arrived in the Kursk region, and ‘the likelihood is pretty high’ that Moscow will use them in combat.

31 Oct 2024 - 7:04AMvideocam

South Korean Defence Minister Kim Yong Hyun and US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin give a joint press conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday. Photo: EPA-EFE

China and Russia reaffirm close ties in Andrey Rudenko-Wang Yi talks

Rudenko discusses the war in Ukraine and the Korean peninsula with Chinese officials but authorities offer no details.

30 Oct 2024 - 9:56PMvideocam

Russian deputy foreign minister Andrey Rudenko and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold talks in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua

Empty ambassador chair highlights complications in China-South Korea relations

While Seoul this month announced its new envoy to Beijing, China has been without an ambassador to South Korea for over 3 months.

29 Oct 2024 - 8:05PMvideocam

Russian soldiers voice frustration over North Korean troops in leaked audio

Russian soldiers can be heard using expletives and calling the North Koreans ‘Chinese’ in the audio clips released by Ukrainian intelligence.

29 Oct 2024 - 3:50PMvideocam

Seoul’s military sent propaganda drone from remote border island, Pyongyang says

A state media graphic showed a flight route of the drone crossing the sea west of the Korean peninsula before crash landing in Pyongyang.

28 Oct 2024 - 12:49PM

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches a missile test through binoculars at an undisclosed location. Photo: KCNA via KNS / AFP

Opinion | South Korea’s arms exports are reshaping the global defence landscape

Seoul’s rise as an arms exporter is serving the interests not only of its defence firms but also the US and Indo-Pacific partners.

27 Oct 2024 - 5:30AM

South Korean Army K2 tanks participate in a joint military drill with Qatari ground forces at the Al Qalayel training centre in Qatar on October 21. Seoul is reshaping traditional power dynamics in military cooperation. Photo: Handout / EPA-EFE

How North Korea became the world’s most reclusive country

26 Oct 2024 - 9:00AM

Ukraine war: what does North Korea gain by sending troops to Russia?

The US, South Korea and Ukraine say North Korean troops have been sent to Russia as analysts warn of an escalation in the Ukraine war.

25 Oct 2024 - 4:25PMvideocam

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Korean peninsula

Korea had been a single political entity governing the Korean Peninsula up until the end of World War II, when the Soviet Union and United States each occupied the northern and southern halves respectively. The division led to the founding of today’s North Korea and South Korea. Tensions between the two countries remain high as both want to bring a unified peninsula under its own rule. A heavy military presence is still stationed at the border which runs along the 38th parallel.

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27 August, 2024