For more than 50 years, South Koreans have lived with the knowledge that North Korea could pound their capital with artillery shells and rockets. So the North's missile tests drew muted reactions from many Southerners, despite their vulnerability to attack.
Russia and China refused Thursday to back a Japanese resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for test-firing missiles.
China and Russia resisted an attempt in the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against North Korea for its missile launches Wednesday, saying only diplomacy could halt the isolated regime's nuclear and rocket development programs.
Six-party talks: Dead? Tensions around the Sea of Japan: Off the charts. And in Washington: What do we do now?
A visually impaired man who had jumped onto subway tracks in an apparent suicide attempt was rescued just seconds before a train passed, officials said Tuesday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged North Korea on Wednesday to refrain from launching a missile, saying such an act would aggravate regional tensions.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton expressed concern Friday at North Korea's silence over a possible missile launch and called for sustained international pressure on Pyongyang, especially from China, to stop it.
The U.S. suggested Thursday it has limited ability to shoot a North Korean missile out of the sky and spurned suggestions of a pre-emptive strike on the ground. Still, it warned the Koreans would pay a cost for a missile launch.
All eyes — and ears — are on North Korea. Military and intelligence agencies of the United States and its allies are spying from land, air, sea and space to learn whether the communist nation is preparing to test fire a long-range missile that may be capable of reaching the western U.S.
If North Korea launches a long-range missile, as some U.S. officials say appears likely, then the Pentagon may get a first chance to use its unproven missile defenses against a real target.
Despite winning her first LPGA Tour title at 19, Jee Young Lee rates herself a late bloomer in her native South Korea, which is swamping women's golf with winners.
North Korea is accelerating preparations for testing a missile that has the potential to strike the United States, a U.S. government official said Friday. A test of the Taepodong-2 long-range missile may be imminent, the official said.
South Korea's ambassador said Tuesday there are some indications that North Korea is preparing for a test launch of a long-range ballistic missile.
U.S. trade officials said significant progress had been made during the first week of negotiations aimed at reaching a free trade agreement with South Korea, but they cautioned that difficult issues remained to be resolved.
The United States and South Korea held their first round of talks Monday aimed at achieving a free trade agreement between the two nations before the end of the year.
A multinational project to build two nuclear power plants for North Korea in exchange for U.N. inspections of the communist country's atomic sites was formally killed off Wednesday by the United States, Japan, South Korea and European Union.
The first North Koreans allowed into this country as refugees in a half-century said Tuesday they fled starvation at home only to find brutality and slavery in neighboring China.
AP Television News opened a full-time office in North Korea on Monday, becoming the first Western news organization to provide regular coverage of that nation.
Thousands of students and civic activists scuffled with police Sunday as they tried to approach the site of a new U.S. military base to protest expansion plans, but no major clashes occurred.
Six North Koreans granted refugee status in the United States last week could be the first of many more to arrive on American shores, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
Six refugees from North Korea, including four women who say they were victims of sexual slavery or forced marriages, have fled to the United States, a senator said Saturday.
The arrest of Hyundai Motor Co.'s chairman in a bribery scandal has refocused attention in South Korea on the role of tycoons and the conglomerates they run as family empires.
After pleading with U.S. lawmakers that time is running out to save her daughter, the mother of a Japanese girl kidnapped nearly 30 years ago by North Korean agents shared her story Friday with President Bush.
Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward was nervous for the first time in his life as he prepared for a trip to the land of his birth. He also looked forward to learning more about his heritage.
North and South Korean authorities, along with Russian officials, tentatively agreed to form an international consortium to reconstruct a trans-Korean railway link, the Russian national railroad company said Friday.