Personal data of nearly 8.7 million customers of South Korea's second-biggest mobile operator has been hacked, according to a report.

Police said two computer programmers had been arrested for hackin

The wife of North Korea's Kim Jong-Un is a former singer who caught the leader's eye while she was giving a performance, South Korean media said on Thursday after Pyongyang disclosed the marriage.

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North Korean state media on Wednesday confirmed that its new leader Kim Jong-Un is married and named his wife as Ri Sol-Ju.

The announcement ended weeks of speculation about the identity of a stylish

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has been made 'Marshal' of the communist state, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Wednesday.

The title was previously held by Kim's father a

North Korea has named a new army vice marshal, state media said Tuesday, a day after it announced the communist country's army chief had been relieved of all his posts.

"Hyon Yong-Chol was awarded th

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it had signed a deal to buy a mobile technology unit belonging to British firm Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) in a bid to improve its handheld devices.

North Korea's army chief has been relieved of all his posts due to illness, state media said Monday, in a surprise development that removes one of new leader Kim Jong-Un's inner circle.

Ri Yong-Ho is

Soar away sales of the Galaxy smartphone drove record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion at Samsung Electronics, though the South Korean tech giant is sweating over how Europe's debt crisis is denting d

South Korea came under pressure on Thursday from outraged governments and environmentalists to scrap plans to kill whales under a 'scientific' research programme denounced as a sham.

Critics of Seoul

North Korea said on Wednesday a total of 51 athletes have qualified in 11 sports for this summer's London Olympics, with the isolated communist state seeking a record medal haul.

They will compete in