The Latest Breaking News from Yonhap

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is launching his biggest scaling back of country’s embassies, likely betting he can earn a larger payout in arms deals with the Kremlin than through missions suspected of sending him a cut of their alleged crimes.

Suspect in his 70s attacked officers after being asked to move past government building, Yonhap News Agency says.

Pyongyang says it carried out a nuclear attack drill with mock atomic warheads attached to two long-range missiles.

The more than 40,000 attendees had been promised a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience - instead the event quickly descended into chaos, Tara Cobham writes

Hundreds of participants in scouting event in South Korea’s southwest have fallen ill due to soaring temperatures.

UK Scouts are being moved to Seoul hotels after heatwave caused chaos and medical issues

President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for overhaul of national preparedness as extreme weather becomes ‘commonplace’

Rescuers find seven bodies in central Osong as they scramble to reach people trapped in flooded underpass.

SEOUL: At least 22 people have died and 14 are missing after heavy rain caused flooding and landslides in South Korea, officials said on Saturday, with thousands more ordered to evacuate their homes.

N Korea leader Kim Jong Un attends meeting on diplomatic, defence strategy amid ‘changed international situation’.

China’s defence ministry says patrol with Russian bomber aircraft was part of exercises that first started in 2019.