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The United States is making denuclearization the top priority on its North Korea policy, a ranking U.S. diplomat said Thursday, amid the long-stalled six-party …

South Korea granted refugee status to a record 94 foreigners last year, the immigration office said Thursday. According to the Korea Immigration Service under …

North Korea appears to be trying to restart its main nuclear reactor after idling the facility for about five months, a U.S. think tank said Wednesday, citing …

China did not export a single drop of crude oil to North Korea for all of 2014, data showed Thursday, despite no clear indication that Beijing was using oil to …

Upholding a lower court ruling, the top court on Thursday acquitted a former Seoul police chief of charges that he soft-pedaled a police probe into a …

South Korea will review some 300 rules governing maritime safety from scratch this year to make it safer for people to travel on ships, the government said …

Former President Lee Myung-bak has refuted opposition lawmakers’ criticism of his push for energy diplomacy while in office, saying that it’s too …

U.S. President Barack Obama has said North Korea is bound to collapse and the Internet will find its way into the isolated nation and spread information that …

Vice foreign ministers of South Korea and the United States held talks in Seoul on Thursday to discuss North Korea’s nuclear program and other bilateral …

The Army plans to draw up a new code of conduct on relations between male and female service personnel in the wake of a series of sex crimes on military bases, …