Seoul: Military officers from North and South Korea held talks on Tuesday at their closely guarded frontier, the first cross-border contact since the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island o

Seoul: Members of a Somali pirate gang forcibly taken to South Korea after a high-seas commando raid prefer the quality of their jailhouse accommodation to life back home, a report said Tuesday.

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Jan. 22: South Korean substitute Yoon Bit Ga-Ram grabbed a sensational 105th-minute extra-time winner on Saturday to see off a stubborn Iran 1-0 and set up a semi-final clash with arch East Asian riva

Seoul: High-tech equipment and carefully planned tactics helped South Korea's navy to rescue a Seoul ship and its crew from Somali pirates, military officials said Monday.

Navy commandos on Friday st

Seol: North Korea on Sunday expressed its anger over efforts by South Korea and Japan to seek closer military ties, repeating calls for Seoul to resume talks with Pyongyang first to defuse regional te

Seol: North Korea on Saturday took further steps to mend ties with South Korea, suggesting talks be held within weeks and reopening an office to foster cooperation on the fractured peninsula.

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BEIJING: China said on Thursday that it would ‘support and welcome’ any dialogue between North and South Korea, following Pyongyang's offer of ‘unconditional’ negotiations with Seoul.
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Seoul: North Korea has added 20,000 soldiers to its feared special forces over the past two years and deployed an unspecified number of new battle tanks, South Korea's defence ministry said on Thursda

Seoul: Some North Korean troops stationed along the border have donned a camouflage uniform similar to that worn by South Koreans, apparently to practise intrusion drills, a defence ministry official

Seoul: South Korea will stage naval firing drills at 23 venues from Monday but will exclude areas near the disputed sea border with North Korea, the military said.

The military plans to stage live-fi