The U.S. South Korea military drills are facing another setback as Washington cancels a major amphibious exercise, raising questions about how the Iran war is affecting America’s military commitments in Asia. The U.S. Marine Corps cancelled the September Ssangyong exercise, a division-level amphibious landing drill involving American and South Korean forces. Seoul’s Marine Corps said…
North Korea has fired about 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, adding fresh tension to the Korean Peninsula just days after US President Donald Trump signalled that he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again this year. South Korea’s military said the missiles were launched from the Pyongyang area towards North…
President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to substantially reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, saying the drills are expensive and send an unnecessarily hostile message to North Korea. But the most interesting part of the decision may be what it means for South Korea itself. Rather than simply weakening Seoul, Trump’s move could…
More than seven decades after the Korean War stopped, South Korea is once again asking North Korea to talk about peace. President Lee Jae Myung used his Liberation Day speech on Saturday to propose direct discussions with Pyongyang aimed at replacing the 1953 armistice with a formal peace regime. He also suggested that the talks…
NBA YoungBoy is talking like an artist who is already preparing for the final chapter of his career. In a newly released conversation with comedian Funny Marco, the rapper said he does not intend to move back to the United States, describing his current life in South Korea as a permanent change. When asked how…
North Korea launched a suspected short-range ballistic missile towards waters off its east coast on Thursday, according to South Korean officials. The projectile fell into the sea and did not pose a reported threat to Japanese territory. On its own, another North Korean missile test might look routine. Pyongyang has conducted repeated launches this year…
South Korean semiconductor giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have secured a combined $950 billion in long-term agreements to supply advanced artificial intelligence and memory chips to some of the biggest technology companies in the United States, marking one of the largest semiconductor partnerships ever announced. The agreements were unveiled during South Korean President Lee…
