Yonhap

North Korea appears to have boosted defenses on its east coast, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said yesterday, after the North said U.S. President Donald Trump had declared war and that it would shoot down U.S. bombers flying near the peninsula.

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At least 3.5 million young people and retired soldiers have joined the North Korean military to fight in the event of a war against the US, state media said, adding that people are rising up "to retaliate against" Washington.

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.

The woman at the center of the snowballing political scandal engulfing President Park Geun-Hye has been put under emergency detention after prosecutors said she was "unstable" and a flight risk.

The chairman of South Korea's Hanjin Group on Oct. 4 apologized for the "cargo chaos" caused by the collapse of its shipping unit, but insisted the company could, and should, be salvaged.

Hanjin Shipping, the world's seventh largest shipping company, is seeking bankruptcy protection at home and in the U.S. after creditors rejected its latest plan to deal with a $5.37 billion debt.

North Korea has been generating hard currency through dealings in Bulgaria, Yonhap news agency says in a report.

Citing diplomatic sources, the agency says "real estate dealings in Bulgaria" done by Pyongyang have resulted in raising calls for Sofia to "intervene amid global efforts to choke off sources of revenue" for the North Korean regime.

The chief of North Korea’s military, General Ri Young-gil, has been executed on charges of corruption, according to a South Korean news agency.

He had been chief of the general staff for North Korea since he was appointed to the role in August 2013 by Kim Jong-un .

South Korea said it fired tens of artillery rounds towards North Korea on Aug. 20 after the North launched a shell towards a South Korean loudspeaker that had been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts, as tension escalated on the peninsula.

A South Korean man set himself on fire Aug. 12 outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul during a large protest over Japan's forced recruitment of sex slaves to service military brothels during World War II.