North Korea takes note of South Korea's announcement that its military has not been involved in recent drone incursions, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in a statement released Sunday.

South Korea's defence ministry has said that the drone, which Pyongyang claimed to have shot down, was not a model operated by its military.

A South Korean court trying former President Yoon Suk Yeol on insurrection charges put off a sentencing request till next week after a marathon session on Friday,

At one point, the monk held two knives against his wife and threatened to harm her. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A computer simulation ordered by the government showed that everyone on board would have survived if the concrete berm had been made of materials that easily broke apart.