South Korea

There will be no war on the Korean peninsula, South Korean President Moon Jae-In said on Aug. 17, saying Seoul effectively had a veto over the United States military action in response to the North's nuclear and missile programmes.

South Korean President Moon Jae-In called for calm on Aug. 14 in the standoff with North Korea, saying there should never be another war on the peninsula.

Tensions have flared since U.S. President Donald Trump, responding to the North's latest missile tests, warned it of "fire and fury like the world has never seen."

China "should make it clear" it will stay neutral if North Korea launches missiles that threaten US soil first and the US retaliates, says China's Global Times.

China "should make it clear" it will stay neutral if North Korea launches missiles that threaten US soil first and the US retaliates, says China's Global Times.

South Korea's military said on Thursday North Korea's recent statements regarding striking the U.S. territory of Guam are a challenge against Seoul and the U.S.-South Korea alliance, Reuters.

A Korean delegation visited two Turkish veterans of the Korean War to pay their respects in Istanbul's Büyükçekmece district on July 31.

The visit was paid as part of the 18th Culture and Festival in Büyükçekmece.

South Korea intends to build a museum in memory of wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, a government minister said Monday, re-igniting a perennial diplomatic thorn in the two neighbors' sides.

The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program has long been shaped by the view that the United States has no viable military option to destroy it. Any attempt to do so, many say, would provoke a brutal counterattack against South Korea too bloody and damaging to risk.

South Korean companies have announced major investments in the United States and plan to import more American shale gas. The countries' two leaders are preparing to hold summit talks in Washington on Friday.

North Korea has launched several unidentified ground-based projectiles, assumed to be surface-to-ship cruise missiles, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff announced.