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The second session of the South Korea-U.S. Nuclear Consultative Group is in progress at the Pentagon near Washington on Dec. 15, 2023, in this photo released by South Korea's government delegation. [YONHAP]

Seoul, Washington reaffirm alliance in Nuclear Consultative Group session

South Korea and the United States reaffirmed their joint commitment to the alliance and all deterrent capabilities against North Korea at a Nuclear Consultative Group session.

2025.1.12

The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), a nuclear-powered supercarrier, arrives at a dock in Busan on Thursday. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group arrived in Busan after a trilateral exercise alongside the South Korean and Japanese navy earlier this week southeast of Jeju. It was the first trilateral drill of its kind in seven years. The last time the USS Ronald Reagan docked in Busan was in September last year when tensions with North Korea escalated. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the alliance between Korea and the U.S. [YONHAP]

The Reagan arrives

The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), a nuclear-powered supercarrier, arrives at a dock in Busan. Carrier Strike Group arrived in Busan after a trilateral exercise alongside the Korean and Japanese navy earlier this week southeast of Jeju.

2023.10.12

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The USS Kentucky, a U.S. nuclear-capable ballistic missile submarine, is docked at a naval base in Busan on Wednesday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Pyongyang will face doom if it uses nukes, Seoul warns

North Korea would face an end if it decides to use its nuclear arms against the South-U.S. alliance, South Korea warned Friday. The warning comes a day after North Korea's Defense Minister Kang Sung-nam released a statement criticizing the...

2023.7.21

“Special Exhibition on the 70th Anniversary of the ROK-U.S. Alliance' at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Jongno District, central Seoul. [NEWS1]

Exhibition commemorates decades of U.S., Korea relations

"Katchi Kapshida! We Go Together!”- Legend has it that the wartime leaders during the Korean War (1950-53), including General Douglas A. MacArthur, General Matthew B. Ridgway, General Chung Il-kwon and General Paik Sun-yup, shook hands with this...

2023.7.8

Former President Moon Jae-in smiles as he talks with the leadership of the Democratic Party at his home in Pyeongsan Village in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang on Jan. 2. [NEWS1]

Former President Moon calls for renewed dialogue with North

Former President Moon Jae-in on Thursday stressed the importance of South and North Korea and the United States’ efforts to restore dialogue, stressing the South Korean government’s role in doing so, during an academic conference marking the ...

2023.4.27

Generational opinion embodies alliance's travails

Korea and its long-standing ally, the United States, share a complicated relationship, a fact reflected in changing public sentiment toward the United States. In the 1980s through the early 2000s, older people who experienced the Korean War ...

2023.4.26

South Korean and U.S. warships engaging in combined drills in waters off Pohang, North Gyeongsang, on March 22. [KOREA NAVY]

North Korean propaganda outlets slam South Korea-U.S. amphibious exercise

North Korean propaganda outlets continued their criticism of an ongoing South Korea-U.S. amphibious landing exercise Sunday, blaming the allies for heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

2023.3.27

South Korean and U.S. artillery units conduct a live-fire drill in Gangneung, Gangwon, in September 2022. [KOREA ARMY]

Korea, U.S. set for 'largest-ever' live-fire drills to mark alliance's 70th anniversary

South Korea and the United States plan to conduct their "largest-ever" combined live-fire drills in June as part of a program to celebrate the 70th anniversary of their alliance, Seoul's Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

2023.3.22

Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup, right, and his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin, hold a joint press conference after their talks at the defense ministry in Seoul on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

U.S. and South Korea agree to expand joint military drills, take strong steps against North Korean provocations

The defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States have agreed to further expand the countries' joint military exercises amid intensifying North Korean provocations, they said in a joint statement released Tuesday.

2023.2.1