The 30-minute call comes as Lee, a liberal from South Korea's Democratic Party, seeks to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. North-South relations are at their most strained in decades amid Kim's frequent ballistic missile tests and North Korean troop deployments to support Russia's war against Ukraine.

Seoul, South ... as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ramped up weapons tests and threats and South Korea has responded by strengthening its joint military exercises with the United States.

SEOUL, South ... Korea, the deployment of U.S. strategic assets and its rivals’ harsh rhetoric. Experts say Kim’s nuclear push is aimed at eventually forcing the United States to accept North ...

MOSCOW, Nov 1 (Reuters) - North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, in a Moscow meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, accused the United States and South Korea of plotting a ...

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung says he’ll pursue dialogue with North Korea while bolstering a trilateral partnership with the U.S. and Japan.

North Korea claims ... southern border” with South Korea on Wednesday. The army added that the defence structures would be built to deal with the South’s and US forces’ “confrontational ...

South Koreans will head to the polls in the first week of June to elect a new president, but analysts caution that the incoming leader will quickly face significant international challenges, from both

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff did not confirm or deny the accusations but urged North Korea “not to act rashly,” and said “all responsibility for the recent series of developments li ...