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Samsung Electronics profit dips as phone sales fall

Samsung, the world’s biggest maker of memory chips, has weathered a series of setbacks, including an embarrassing global recall of its Galaxy Note 7

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is inspecting the defence detachment on Mahap Islet in the western sector.

Kim Jong-Un has vowed North Korea will mass-produce nukes and missiles

​He reiterated his claims that the North was a nuclear state and insisted its expansion of the weapons programme was a defensive measure.

Game on: Organisers of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea are upbeat despite tensions elsewhere

Winter Games not on ice just yet

US and North Korea and a Russian doping ban haven’t dampened spirits or ticket sales

Bodies spotted in capsized South Korean ferry

The arrested captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized three days ago with 476 people on board has defended his decision to delay its evacuation.

Korean talks collapse after North’s walkout

Korean talks collapse after North’s walkout

Military talks aimed at easing high tensions between North and South Korea collapsed on Wednesday.

Two Koreas at odds in first talks since attack

Two Koreas at odds in first talks since attack

North and South Korea on Tuesday haggled over how to ease tensions in their first talks since the North’s shelling of a South Korean island last year.

N Korea calls for ‘unconditional’ talks with South

North Korea proposed "unconditional and early" talks with the South on Wednesday to mend battered cross-border ties.

North Korea threatens Seoul as tempers flare

North Korea threatens Seoul as tempers flare

North Korea vowed on Thursday to attack any South Korean ships that violate their disputed border.

North Korea fires artillery for second day

North Korea fired artillery shells into the sea near its tense disputed border with South Korea for a second day on Thursday.

North Korea says it’s reactivated nuclear programme

North Korea said on Saturday it has started reprocessing spent fuel rods to make weapons-grade plutonium,

Cancer-sniffing dog being cloned in South Korea

A Japanese centre which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul bio-technology company and the dog’s owner said on…

N Korea cuts contacts with South as tensions escalate

North Korea announced on Thursday it was suspending all dialogue with South Korea after failing to win an apology for remarks by a Seoul general, its toughest action in a week of…

Laughter — a less lethal export from North Korea

Nuclear-armed North Korea is notorious for selling its missiles overseas, but the hard-line communist state also has a more improbable export — cute cartoon figures. South Korean…

N Korea offers US talks to defuse missile crisis

North Korea on Wednesday offered the United States talks on its missile launch plans, indicating it might put off a flight test that has raised tension and drawn sharp…

North Korea rattles sabre to mark Kim’s birthday

North Korea on Thursday marked the 64th birthday of leader Kim Jong-Il with a bout of sabre-rattling and a warning that a nuclear stand-off will never be settled unless…

Cloning pioneer says he’s victim of conspiracy

South Korea’s discredited cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk on Thursday admitted his research into stem cells was faked but claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy — the latest…

Stem cell-research to prevail despite fraud: experts

Stem cell-therapy remains the best long-term hope for suffers of many incurable diseases despite the medical hoax perpetrated by South Korea’s researcher Hwang Woo-Suk, analysts…

North Korea to develop light-water nuclear reactors

North Korea announced on Tuesday it intended to build an unspecified number of light-water reactors, saying the United States had reduced a 1994 deal on mothballing nuclear power…

Police battle protesters at Apec summit

Anti-American protesters and riot police fought pitched battles in the streets of the southern South Korean port city of Busan on Friday as thousands of people rallied against…

Samsung in hot water at home

The Samsung group was in hot water on Wednesday after its patriarch was told to appear before South Korea’s Parliament. The parliamentary move coincided with an attack by…