United Nations: The UN Security Council is to meet on Sunday over mounting tensions on the Korean peninsula as U.S. troubleshooter Bill Richardson urged the North to show 'maximum restraint' over a li

Seoul: US troubleshooter Bill Richardson has proposed to officials in Pyongyang that North and South Korea set up a joint military hotline to address incidents along their border, CNN reported Sunday.

Seoul: North Korea has boosted the readiness of its military forces on the coast nearest to a planned live-fire drill by South Korea, the South's Yonhap news agency said on Sunday, quoting a governmen

Seoul: North Korea's military threatened on Friday to strike back if South Korea goes ahead with an imminent live-fire drill on a border island which the communist state shelled last month.

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Seoul/Beijing, Dec. 17: North Korea said on Friday it would strike again at the South if a live-firing drill by Seoul on a disputed island went ahead, with an even stronger response than November’s sh

Russia's foreign minister has urged North Korea to return to six-nation disarmament talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programmes.

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

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30: With North Korea reeling from economic and succession crises, American and South Korean officials early this year secretly began gaming out what would happen if the North, led by

The US and South Korean navies on Wednesday wrapped up war games meant as a muscular show of force to North Korea, as world powers remained sharply divided over how to deal with the nuclear-armed regi

Seoul, Nov. 27: North Korea on Saturday accused South Korea of using civilians as human shields at an island the North attacked this week, saying the South was publicizing the deaths of two of the civ