YONHAP NEWS AGENCY

NIS confirmed Ri Il Kyu's defection from Cuba to South Korea with family due to disillusionment. Yonhap mentioned job conflicts; Chosun Ilbo reported the case. 2016 saw Tae Yongho's defection, now a parliament member. 2019 saw North Korean ambassado...

A fire at a manufacturing factory in South Korea, likely caused by exploding lithium batteries, resulted in the death of 22 workers, mostly Chinese migrants, and injured 8 others. The incident occurred during battery examination and packaging, with ...

The nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier, Theodore Roosevelt, has arrived in South Korea's port city of Busan for joint military exercises with South Korea and Japan. This follows an agreement between the three nations, made at a Camp David summit ...

North Korea sent hundreds more trash-carrying balloons over the border, Seoul's military said Monday, after Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of further responses if the South keeps up its "psychological warfare". Seoul's military said the North ...

The United States flew a B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula for the first joint bombing drills with South Korea in seven years, amidst heightened tensions from North Korea's provocations. The US bomber, escorted by South Korean F-15K jets, droppe...

North Korea sent 600 balloons carrying trash into South Korea, causing anger in the country. The balloons, which contained cigarette butts, cloth, paper waste, and plastic, were found across the capital from 8 p.m. to 10 a.m. South Korea's Joint Chi...

North Korea's attempt to launch a new military reconnaissance satellite ended in failure on Monday when a newly developed rocket engine exploded in flight. The launch came just hours after Pyongyang issued a warning that it would try to launch a sat...

North Korean President Kim Jong-un oversaw the test firing of a new surface-to-sea missile and ordered heightened defense near the western maritime border. The missile, Padasuri-6, was launched the day after South Korea reported multiple North Korea...

The UN's nuclear agency reported indications of a second operational reactor at North Korea's Yongbyon facility, a core site for their nuclear activities. Warm water discharge, observed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), suggests the ...

A U.S. nuclear sub, USS Missouri (SSN-780), docks in Busan after the U.S.-South Korea Nuclear Consultative Group meeting. Both nations affirm no tolerance for North Korea's nuclear attacks in a joint statement. Concerns arise over potential North Ko...

Prosecutors on Wednesday sought an arrest warrant for the former official who is accused of giving information related to 18-nano DRAM memory chip technology to China's Changxin Memory Technologies Inc (CXMT). Local media reported that the former of...

North Korea has further claimed that the soldier, Travis King has expressed a willingness to seek refuge there or in a third country. This was Pyongyang's first confirmation of the status of King since he crossed the MDL into the North during a tour...

The launch was reported by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), according to Yonhap, who said they were fired early Wednesday from the Sunan area in Pyongyang, and flew some 550 kilometres (340 miles) before splashing into the East Sea, also k...

Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, and his aide have been sentenced to four months in prison by a Montenegro court on charges of using forged passports. Kwon and his chief financial officer were arrested in March at Podgorica Airport as they...

Man who opened Asiana plane door in mid-air tells police he was "uncomfortable" - Yonhap

The eight-day Soaring Eagle exercise began at an air base in Cheongju, 112 kilometre south of Seoul, amid tensions on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of North Korea's firing of a purported solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile last month. T...

A US F-16 fighter jet crashed in a farming area south of Seoul during a training exercise on Saturday, said the US military, but appeared to have caused no casualties or property damage. The jet's pilot safely ejected before the crash and was taken ...

According to Yonhap News Agency, the three nations have been reinforcing security coordination following Pyongyang's provocative acts, such as the launch of a purportedly solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile last Thursday. According to the ...

The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported in state media that Kim, who oversaw Thursday's launch, said the new ICBM would "radically promote the effectiveness of its nuclear counterattack posture and bring about a change in the...