South Korea's President has vowed a relentless retaliation against North Korea if provoked again, saying he is not afraid of a war with the communist North.

South Korea's military said on Saturday it would go ahead with a live-fire drill on a border island bombarded by North Korea on November, despite the North's threat to strike back with deadlier firepo

South Korea's Presidency on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Army Chief General Hwang Eui-Don, the defence ministry said.

North Korea warned on Monday that US-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North's d

South Korea's military began a major live-fire exercise on Monday amid high tensions sparked by North Korea's deadly bombardment last month, as Washington pressed Beijing to curb its unruly ally Pyong

The North Korea, at the centre of a crisis over an attack on the South, said Monday it has "cutting-edge" nuclear fusion technology — claiming a breakthrough in a field that has defied the world's sci

The US and South Korean naval forces plan to stage four days of war games from Sunday off the tense Korean peninsula, days after the North launched a deadly artillery strike against the South.

South Korea on Saturday laid to rest two marines killed in North Korea's artillery strikes, on the eve of massive naval war games with the United States that have angered Pyongyang and its ally Beijin

South Korea named a presidential security aide and former career soldier as its new defence minister on Friday after the previous minister quit over North Korea's deadly artillery bombardment.

North Korea staged an artillery firing drill on Friday near the South Korean border and warned that planned US-South Korean naval exercises at the weekend would bring the peninsula closer to war.