Defectors in Seoul share sentiments about North Korean soldiers in Russia. SEOUL -- Over 12,000 North Korean troops are estimated to be fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region ...

Seoul, South Korea — South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained in a massive law enforcement operation at the presidential compound Wednesday, defiantly insisting the anti ...

SEOUL—The arrest of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ends a dayslong standoff with the country’s investigators. But the move to detain him has proved deeply divisive in a country ...

North Korea has deployed some 12,000 troops to aid Russia’s war effort, Ukraine has said, echoing assessments by American and South Korean intelligence agencies. Kyiv previously claimed to have ...

Ukraine has found “irrefutable evidence” of North Korea’s involvement in Russia’s war against his country, president Volodymyr Zelensky said this week as he announced the capture of two North Korean ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities detained President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over his botched declaration of martial law, weeks after a first attempt ended in a dramatic standoff ...

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested by anti-corruption investigators. Around 1,000 officers were involved in the operation and police had to use ladders and wire cutters to ...

Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea's first sitting president to be arrested after investigators scaled barricades and cut through barbed wire to take him into custody. Yoon, 64, is being ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A TV screen shows a report of North Korea’s missiles launch with file footage during a news program at the ...

The short-range missiles landed in the Sea of Japan, South Korea said. SEOUL and TOKYO -- North Korea launched "several short-range ballistic missiles," that landed in the Sea of Japan Tuesday ...

North Korea has been too occupied with helping Russia in Ukraine, and making money, to care about South Korea’s political crisis. There are many indicators that North Korea will double down on ...

Yoon Suk Yeol became the first South Korean leader to be held by criminal investigators, ending a long standoff after he imposed martial law. By Choe Sang-Hun Jin Yu Young and Victoria Kim Choe ...