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Ties have improved since President Lee's January visit, yet Chinese interlocutors voice clear misgivings.

• Taiwan actions, including e-form changes...

Youlin Chen's nearly two-year detention on espionage charges for his US-funded research on North Korean nuclear test signatures has become a quiet...

• South Korea negotiates access to NATO's $9.9 billion defense procurement market
• Deals like Poland's $13.7 billion arms purchase show Seoul's...

China's nuclear submarine launched a long-range ballistic missile into the South Pacific, a rare move framed as routine training.

• Regional...

North Korea's cyber operations show a dual asymmetric strategy—stealing funds globally while probing Seoul's defenses.

• Financial theft: Hackers...

Kim Jong-un is tightening control over North Korea's military through parallel modernization and purges.

• Modernization overhaul: He directed...

North Korean Strike Tests

• 🔥 June 25 Weapons Package: North Korea tested a tactical ballistic missile, 240mm 24-tube MLRS extended to 90km...

North Korea is escalating simultaneously across domains to overwhelm South Korea.

• Cyberattacks on SK military hit a five-year high of 18,951 in...

A South Korean sailor vanished Sunday during a patrol near the Northern Limit Line. Seoul made an unusual humanitarian appeal to Pyongyang for search...

In 1994, Kim Il-sung was prepared to dismantle North Korea's nuclear program in exchange for reactors, just weeks before his sudden death. The Agreed...

A routine South Korean patrol turned fatal when a seaman's body was recovered Monday near the Northern Limit Line, underscoring the human cost of...

Kim Jong Un convened a rare joint meeting to punish senior military official Pak Hui-chol for corruption and undermining party command, using the case...

Trump's second term is accelerating two parallel shifts: deeper US-ROK economic integration alongside Tokyo-Seoul security alignment.

Gen. Flynn...

• Unprecedented tabletop exercise at Yongsan headquarters united USFK, JCS, UNC and CFC against wartime foreign disinformation.
• Whole-of-government...

Randy Schriver warns US deterrence in the Taiwan Strait is eroding as Beijing launches persistent Coast Guard patrols east of Taiwan to physically...

• Pyongyang's denunciation: NATO summit proves it is a "war and confrontation body" pushing Asia-Pacific instability and denuclearization demands
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Korea takes command of a major multinational maritime force at RIMPAC 2026 for the first time, with Rear Adm. Kim In-ho leading as Combined Maritime...

North Korea's Nuclear Stance

• 🔥 Nuclear Expansion Vow: North Korea's foreign ministry stated it will strengthen nuclear forces quantitatively...

Trump's second term is accelerating Japan-South Korea security cooperation as both capitals hedge against US retreat, with officials openly discussing...

North Korea condemned the NATO summit for deepening bloc confrontation and accelerating arms spending, framing it as proof that denuclearisation talks...