All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid capture, one former soldier told NBC News.

With Russia wearing down Ukraine’s stretched forces and U.S. President Donald Trump pressuring the two sides to end their nearly 3-year-old war, Kyiv and some of its European allies are discussing how ...

North Korea and Russia's deepening military relationship has sounded alarm in South Korea and the United States.

The U.S. Pacific Air Forces told Newsweek that the RC-135 spy planes were conducting planned, routine operations.

President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” repeating an idea he first brought up earlier this month during a news ...

Impeached South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested on Wednesday over his failed martial law bid, ending a weeks-long ...

State media in North Korea, which technically remains at war with the South, said Friday that the crisis in South Korea had resulted in “paralysis of its state administration and spiraling socio ...

Eight days after Pyongyang launched a hypersonic ballistic missile, it fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the ...

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South Korea's Ministry of National Defense dismissed allegations it took military actions intended to provoke North Korea ahead of President Yoon Suk Yeol's Dec. 3 martial law declaration.

Japan was an imperial power in Korea from 1910 to 1945. Its treatment of Koreans was poor, and both North and South Korea perceive that Japan is not sufficiently contrite. Japan, conversely ...

Editing by Ed Davies and Raju Gopalakrishnan Seoul-based reporter covering the Koreas with a focus on South Korean politics, North Korea's missile tests and the K-pop industry. Before joining ...