South Korea and the United States are not discussing a drawdown of the 28,500-strong U.S. forces stationed in Korea, a Ministry of National Defense official said Thursday.
South Korea will redeploy an attaché in charge of unification affairs to the country's embassy in Russia later this year, the Ministry of Unification said Thursday, ending a vacancy of more than a year.
A senior official in the People Power Party denounced the Ministry of Unification's proposal to refer to North Korea by its preferred Korean name, calling the idea unconstitutional and a unilateral concession in inter-Korean language politics.
South Korea's military has identified the remains of another soldier killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, raising the number of such service members to 273, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday.
South Korea's top nuclear envoy has stressed the need to swiftly resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, calling it the "most urgent" challenge to the nonproliferation regime, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
President Lee Jae Myung vowed on Monday to implement measures to restore inter-Korean trust and achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula in a ceremony to mark the eighth anniversary of the Panmunjom Declaration.
South Korea's front line troops could be slashed by nearly 75 percent in the next decade or two, a move which may be inevitable considering the declining military personnel numbers.
A salt farm owner in South Jeolla was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for exploiting a worker with an intellectual disability over the course of a decade.
The suspected perpetrator of an arson in Hadong County, South Gyeongsang, that killed his mother-in-law was found dead near the scene, police said Tuesday.
The U.S. has restricted South Korea's access to satellite intelligence on North Korea after a minister disclosed details about a uranium enrichment facility, though military readiness remains unaffected according to South Korean officials.
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