The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — Former top prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol won election as South Korea’s president, returning the conservative opposition to power after five years and signaling a hawkish turn in the country’s relations with China and North Korea.

North Korea will launch a number of reconnaissance satellites in coming years to provide real-time information on military actions by the United States and its allies, state media on Thursday reported leader Kim Jong Un as saying.

Conservative South Korean opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol rode to victory in a tight presidential election on a wave of discontent over economic policy, scandals and gender wars, reshaping the political future of Asia's fourth-largest economy.

The U.S. military has increased surveillance and reconnaissance collection in the Yellow Sea and heightened its ballistic missile defence readiness after a "significant increase" in North Korean missile testing, the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) said on Thursday.

South Korea’s presidential race was too close to call as votes were being counted, with an exit poll released minutes after polls closed Wednesday showing conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol with a lead of less than one percentage point.

Russia is now subject to more targeted sanctions than Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar and Cuba combined, according to new data released by Castellum.AI.

South Koreans were at the polls electing a new president Wednesday with economic inequality a top concern especially among young swing voters, despite growing saber-rattling from the nuclear-armed North. Polling booths opened at 6 am (2100 GMT) and record early voting indicates turnout will be high after a campaign dominated…

South Korea's military said on Wednesday it had sent back all seven North Korean sailors who were aboard a ship it seized after the vessel crossed into the South's waters a day before.

South Korea’s military on Wednesday returned a North Korean boat and its seven crew members across the countries’ disputed western sea boundary a day after they drifted into waters near a South Korean border island

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea went to the polls to elect a new president to manage relations with nuclear-armed neighbors China and North Korea, and guide the export-driven economy as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens global growth.

South Koreans have begun voting for a new president to choose between a liberal maverick and a conservative former prosecutor in an election that has aggravated the country’s domestic divisions