North Korea has held a public event to celebrate its latest detonation of what it calls a hydrogen bomb that can fit on a long-range missile, calling the test an "auspicious" national event, its state media said Thursday.Citizens and servicemen were gathered Wednesday at a plaza named after late f

South Korean Marines have conducted a massive exercise on defending a front-line island near the tense western sea border with North Korea, their command said Thursday.The three-day drill took place on Baengnyeong Island, just south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea, involving "all

The U.S. military will deploy additional missile interceptor launchers to its base in a southern town early Thursday despite strong opposition from residents and activists, according to local villagers.The residents' group in Seonju said Wednesday Seoul's defense ministry has informed the me

South Korea said Wednesday that it is closely monitoring possible radiation traces from North Korea's latest nuclear test, as a post-test tremor occurred due to a collapse in an underground tunnel at the test site.Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon told lawmakers Tuesday that North Koreans liv

South Korea's Navy said Tuesday it has conducted massive live-fire drills in the East Sea in a show of its resolve to retaliate against North Korea's provocations.Among assets mobilized were the 2,500-ton Gangwon frigate, a 1,000-ton patrol ship, 400-ton guided-missile vessels and 130-ton hi

North Korea said Sunday that it has successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb that can be loaded into its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in what could be the most powerful detonation.In an "important" announcement, North Korea said that it carried out the sixth nuclear test at 12

South Korea strongly condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test Sunday, vowing to push for fresh and the most powerful sanctions by the U.N. Security Council to completely isolate the communist state. "President Moon Jae-in said the country will never allow North Korea to continue adva

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake was detected around North Korea's nuclear test site Sunday, South Korea's military said, in an indication of a possible nuclear test.An artificial quake wave was detected around the Punggye-ri site in the North Hamgyeong Province, according to the Joint Chiefs of S

North Korea said Saturday that any South Korean and United States attempt to locate its mobile missile launchers would be futile, issuing sarcastic remarks on a recent South Korean military drill to detect and destroy the North's transporter-erector-launcher (TEL).The South Korean Navy's spe

North Korea set a goal early this year of increasing its oil reserves to 1 million tons in anticipation of additional international sanctions, a Japanese newspaper reported Saturday, citing a Pyongyang source.The Tokyo Shimbun said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached the decision to secure a 1 m

The Government of Costa Rica strongly condemned the launching of missiles by the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea.Loyal to its tradition of peace and strict conviction that dialogue is the only tool for the peaceful resolution of conflicts, Costa Rica expresses its support to the po

South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered his country's military Tuesday to display its capabilities that can overwhelm North Korea should the communist state decide to attack, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said.The order came hours after Pyongyang launched what appeared to be an interm

North Korea lobbed a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday in a strategic provocation sharply escalating tensions in Northeast Asia.The missile was fired eastward from the vicinity of Sunan in Pyongyang at around 5:57 a.m., according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)."It passed thr

North Korea launched at least three missiles into the East Sea on Saturday morning, resuming its provocative acts after a monthlong hiatus despite Washington's diplomacy-first approach toward the belligerent regime.The North fired "several unidentified projectiles" from the vicinity of Gitdaer

A senior British official said Friday a package of both sanctions and diplomacy is needed to denuclearize North Korea and now is not the right time to have dialogue given the graveness of its threat.Mark Field, minister for Asia and the Pacific at the U.K. Foreign Office, expressed skepticism toward

North Korea launched at least three ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Saturday morning, according to South Korean and U.s. militaries.The North fired "several unidentified projectiles" from the vicinity Gitdaeryong in Gangwon Province starting at around 6:49 a.m., said the Joint Chiefs of St

Guam, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, continues to be safe despite North Korea's threats to launch ballistic missiles towards it, the island's No. 2 official said Monday.Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio met with media in Tokyo to reassure people there that Guam remains unaffected by the communi

A Democratic lawmaker urged the Pentagon Monday to boost its missile defense system before North Korea develops the capability to strike the U.S. mainland with nuclear weapons.In a contribution to The Hill, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) underscored the urgency of tackling North Korea's missile and nuclea

South Korean Marines have started their largest-ever training to defend the eastern island of Ulleung, the Marine Corps said Sunday.Ulleung Island, some 120 kilometers off the eastern coast, is located near Dokdo, a set of rocky islets owned by Seoul but claimed by Tokyo. It is the country's eig

A Chinese sign that read "Hanguocheng," meaning South Korean food court, on the building of a restaurant mall in Wangjing, the once prosperous Koreatown in northeastern Beijing, has been replaced by "Meishijie," or Gourmet food street.The change reflects an ever-rising anti-South Korean sentimen