SOUTH KOREA

The number of North Korean defectors has nearly tripled in 2023 compared to the previous two years.

He committed the crime in a drunken state.

Jesse Lingard joined Man Utd's academy at the age of seven.

The structure, officially called the Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification, was completed after an inter-Korea summit in 2000.

The two Koreas remain technically at war with the presence of nearly two million troops at the border.

This comes as North Korea tries to come up with solutions to its declining birth rate.

The dissident was once put behind bars for criticising President Xi Jinping.

The UK government has signed a series of sci-tech deals with South Korea to foster cooperation in AI, semiconductors, engineering biology, space tech and other areas during the South Korean PM's state visit to the UK.

The police have also launched an investigation to find out how she got the weapon.

Seoul's spy agency has claimed that Pyongyang may have received support from Russia.

The US and Iran prisoner exchange will free $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue held in South Korea, with both countries discussing a possible arrangement that would seek to place some limitations on Iran's expanding nuclear program.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States and its allies of turning the waters off the Korean Peninsula into "the most unstable waters."

A 35-year-old Chinese dissident who had been campaigning against human rights abuses in China for years fled China for South Korea on August 16.

Travis King, the US soldier who crossed into North Korea last month, wanted refuge from "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army,"

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered a drastic increase in weapons production.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un asked his generals to prepare for the possibility of war.

The United States government has refused to classify its soldier Travis King as a prisoner of war (PoW) after he crossed into North Korea last month.

Economic slowdown, border restrictions and Covid-19 have created a shortage of food in North Korea

The East Asian neighbours, both crucial security allies of the United States, have long been at odds over historic issues linked to Japan's brutal 1910 to 1945 colonial occupation.

South Korea's military said it had "detected one ballistic missile with a medium range or longer fired from the Pyongyang area at 0723 (1023 GMT)".

The most significant joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea have been held in the past five years coincide with Pyongyang's most recent tests.