Topic: Seoul
North Korea has sent secret agents to South Korea to try to assassinate its defence minister, who has vowed a stern response to attacks from the communist state, media reports said Wednesday.The defence ministry said it could not confirm the reports but ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - A team of North Korean agents have been assigned to kill South Korea's defense minister after he said Seoul would retaliate militarily if Pyongyang repeats attacks against the South, local media reported Wednesday.North Korea, which has previously sent agents ...
Tens of thousands of South Korean troops joined a massive clean-up Thursday after record-breaking rainfall killed at least 53 people, flooded hundreds of homes and turned main roads into muddy rivers.Some 40,000 soldiers with heavy equipment have joined more than 4,000 police ...
North Korea test-fired a short-range missile off its west coast last week in the first such launch for 19 months, reports said Wednesday.The North fired the KN-06 missile into the Yellow Sea in the middle of last week, South Korea's Yonhap news ...
The head of the US Pacific command met South Korean military leaders Thursday ahead of annual joint military exercises between the two countries, officials said.South Korean Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin held talks with US Admiral Robert Willard, a ministry spokesman said, without ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Monday rejected a push by the North to bring forward military talks by 10 days, saying it was not enough time to prepare for their first dialogue since the North's deadly attack against a border island ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to carry out a planned firing drill from an island near the border with North Korea from Monday morning, domestic media quoted military officials as saying.Officials at Seoul's defense ministry could not immediately confirm the reports ...
South Korea's presidency Tuesday accepted the resignation of army chief General Hwang Eui-Don, the defence ministry said.A ministry spokesman confirmed to AFP that Hwang had offered his resignation, which had been accepted, but gave no other details.The resignation comes at a sensitive ...
South and North Korea began their first military talks for two years Thursday to try to ease tensions heightened by a naval disaster near their disputed sea border, Seoul's defence ministry said.Officers from the two sides met at the truce village of ...
South and North Korea will hold their first military talks for two years on Thursday in an effort to ease cross-border tensions, the defence ministry in Seoul said.The meeting involving three officers from each side will include talks on the sinking of ...
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