Sources: Yonhap
According to an anonymous South Korean government official, North Korea is preparing to send engineering forces to the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine in July. 2024-06-27
North Korean defence minister Kang Sun-nam warns that the deployment of the USS "Kentucky" ballistic missile submarine to South Korea on July 18 could provoke his country to use its nuclear weapons under its law. 2023-07-20
A Korean People's Army soldier defects to South Korea via the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). He was shot and injured by fellow North Korean soldiers as he crossed to the South Korean side at Panmunjom, and has been taken to hospital. 2017-11-13
North Korea deploys one or two intermediate-range ballistic missiles on its east coast, possibly preparing for launch on or around Friday, the anniversary of the birth of the country's founder Kim Il-sung, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. 2016-04-14
North Korea calls off talks with South Korea, according to officials from the South, amid a disagreement over the pairing of Ryoo Kihl-jae (South) and Kim Yang Gon (North). 2013-06-11
A private South Korean committee announces that it plans to file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court against North Korea over repatriation of prisoners of war and remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War. 2012-07-25
The President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, gives an address to a joint session of the United States Congress, emphasizing the importance of a recently-concluded free trade deal between South Korea and the United States, and expounding the need to improve relations with North Korea. 2011-10-13
South Korea starts work on a new facility to rehouse refugees from North Korea to avoid both food shortages and political oppression. 2011-07-7
North Korea warns it will take military action against South Korea if it continues to distribute information regarding the unrest in the Middle East to its citizens. 2011-02-27
North Korea says it will scrap an accord aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with South Korea after being blamed for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship. 2010-05-27