SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned South Korean-U.S. military drills and vowed a rapid expansion of his nuclear forces to counter rivals, state media said Tuesday, as he inspected his most advanced warship being fitted with nuclear-capable systems.

SEOUL: Six elderly men who served lengthy jail terms for spying against South Korea have asked to be sent to the North, a Seoul unification official told AFP on Tuesday (Aug 19), decades after their release.

President Lee Jae-myung’s peace feelers come as Pyongyang slams Seoul’s ‘provocation’ over an annual US-South Korean military exercise.

South Korea's nuclear power output is racing ahead of official targets due to fewer maintenance outages, a new plant coming online and reactors running at full tilt, helping to rein in generation costs and pushing down coal usage.

Torrential rain that has battered South Korea’s greater capital region for two days has started easing, but not before claiming at least one life.

A Korean champion of stillness reveals why giving your brain blank space can spark creativity, clarity, and calm.

Price growth for high-end homes in Seoul led an index of major cities around the world, where prime housing broadly cooled

South Korea’s new liberal president, Lee Jae Myung, says he will seek to restore a 2018 military agreement with North Korea aimed at reducing border tensions and urged Pyongyang to respond to Seoul’s efforts to rebuild trust and revive dialogue.