Korea

B-1B bombers deployed as trilateral aerial exercise sends message to North

South Korea, the United States and Japan held a trilateral aerial exercise involving U.S. B-1B strategic bombers over the Korean Peninsula Wednesday in response...

Gyeongbok Palace vandal claims his graffiti was ‘artistic’

A 17-year-old teenager accused of vandalizing historic Gyeongbok Palace said somebody offered to pay him to spray-paint the address of illegal streaming websites on...

North warns U.S. after ICBM test, says launch shows ‘options’

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un warned that the test-fire of a solid-fuel Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Monday showed what he would do...

Police arrest teens suspected of vandalizing historic Seoul palace

Police arrested Tuesday a 17-year-old individual suspected of vandalizing the wall of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul on Saturday. The unidentified teen was taken into custody...

North fires ICBM into sea amid worsening war of words

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the East Sea on Monday, a move immediately condemned by South Korea, the United States...

Gyeongbok Palace wall graffiti suspect surrenders

The suspect who most recently vandalized the left wall of Yeongchumun, the western gate of Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul, turned himself in on...

Drug arrests at all-time high, but impact questioned

The number of people arrested in Korea on drug-related charges this past year reached 17,152, according to the National Police Agency (NPA) on Monday,...

Hanshin University president apologizes for school’s staff forcing Uzbek students leave Korea

Hanshin University's president apologized after reports that the university's staff forced its Uzbek international students to leave Korea. "Our university recently caused concern due to...

Korea protests unauthorized entry from Chinese and Russian aircraft

The Ministry of National Defense lodged complaints against the Chinese military attaché and Russian defense attaché to Korea on Friday after their military aircraft...

North Korea blasts imminent start of U.S.-led trilateral missile data-sharing system

North Korea slammed on Thursday a plan by South Korea, the United States and Japan to commence a real-time trilateral missile warning data-sharing system...