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Project fired into airspace just before Chinese plane carrying 202 people flew through, says Seoul defence ministry ...

s response markedly softer than usual South Korea has reported that North Korea fired seven suspected artillery shells into the ocean on Tuesday, in what Seoul called a provocation apparently directed against its ongoing military drills with the US. North Korea has already launched six Scud missiles into the sea since the annual exercises began about a week ago. Pynongyang has claimed the exercises...

spreading North's ideology' According to the court that sentenced him to 12 years in prison, Lee Seok-ki is a dangerous subversive, guilty of plotting an armed rebellion in support of his country's sworn enemy across the border that separates the Korean peninsula. It sounds like the rumblings of a typical North Korean purge. Only Lee is an elected representative in the democratic, economically powerful...

s protest against the drills it calls a preparation for an attack, and a test of its own weapons systems. They followed South Korea's announcement that Pyongyang fired four short-range Scud missiles with a range of more than 125 miles (200km) into North Korea's eastern waters last Thursday. North Korea routinely test-fires short-range missiles, Analysts did not expect the launches to raise tensions,...

Prime minister plays down prospect of East China Sea spat derailing attempts to settle agreement Daniel Hurst ...

Prime minister to visit Japan, China and South Korea in April to nail down agreements ...

s east coast, South Korea defence ministry says North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles into the sea, Seoul's defence ministry said, in an apparent show of force to coincide with the South...

s first meeting with his 62-year-old son was bittersweet. The 92-year-old was delighted to make contact with the child born after he had fled North Korea to make his home in the South more than 60 years ago. But he knows they are unlikely to meet again. Any hope Kang had of finding out more about his son's life in one of the most secretive countries in the world were dashed when organisers kept tight...

s intelligence agency. At a news conference in Pyongyang, Kim Jeong-wook, wearing a dark suit and in apparent good health, read a statement which detailed a number of anti-government activities. No questions were taken at the event, footage of which was broadcast on South Korean television. Foreigners arrested in North Korea are often required to make a public "confession", which can expedite their...

m going to ask you a favor. Can you move over there?" He jerked his head at a neighboring table. "Since I have a stroller." There was something about his tone (as well as his lack of "sorry" or "please") that made me bristle. What if I had a bum leg? Or my own stroller en route? I nearly said, "I'd be happy to move if you weren't so rude." Instead I let out a passive-aggressive harrumph as I moved...

Chinese plane carrying caskets arrives in Shenyang after remains were handed over by South Korea The remains of 437 Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean war returned home on Friday, more than 60 years after an armistice ended the fighting. A Chinese plane carrying the caskets arrived in the northern Chinese city of Shenyang, following a handover ceremony at the Incheon international airport in Seoul...

Smartphone cartoons, divided families and colourful fables Claire Armitstead travels to Seoul and take the temperature of Korean literary culture...

s exercises come as families separated by Korean war enjoy first reunion for three years South Korea has kicked off its annual joint military exercises with the US despite vocal opposition from North Korea . The drills will test a recent improvement in cross-border ties. The start of this year's military exercises overlaps with the first reunion for more than three years of families divided by the...

s opaque and controversial scoring system. When the scores had been tallied, the 23-year-old overwhelming favourite had to settle for a silver medal, losing out by 5.48 points to the unfancied Russia Adeline Sotnikova, who won her country's first women's Olympic figure skating gold. South Korean skating fans immediately cried foul play. "Queen Yuna," they said, had been denied the gold that was rightfully...

Home crowd on their feet after Sotnikova wins gold from Korea’s Yuna Kim, with Carolina Kostner of Italy in third Amanda Holpuch ...

North and South Korean family members separated since the 1950-53 Korean war have met in the first reunion ceremonies for three years. Reunions are being held at North Korea’s Kumgang Mountain resort ...

s Kumgang Mountain resort, with a second wave of reunions to start on Sunday Dozens of elderly North and South Koreans separated for six decades have been reunited during a rare period of detente between the rival Koreas. The reunions are all the more poignant because the participants will part again in a few days, possibly for ever. About 80 South Koreans travelled through snow with their families...

Penny Wong: Labor has some outstanding questions regarding the ‘trophy’ deal: does the agreement deliver the best deal for Australian jobs? Is the promised access to Korea’s markets real? Penny Wong ...

Kim is poised to win a second consecutive gold medal in women’s figure skating if she can keep first-place ranking ...

s meetings can be a step towards building more amicable ties. But Kang is reluctant to get his hopes up too high. "Of course I'm really worried. I hope everyone involved tries their best to make sure it doesn't get cancelled," he said. He has been disappointed before: Kang's only other chance to meet his son was scuttled in September last year when inter-Korean family reunions were abruptly cancelled...