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As South Korea’s population falls, its military is shrinking rapidly. Is that a problem as North Korea ramps up its forces?

South Korea’s birth rate has dropped throughout much of the past decade, spelling trouble for the military as regional ...

South Korea's Lee to restore pact halting military activity on North Korean border

South Korea will seek to resume inter-Korean cooperation and intends to restore an agreement to suspend military activity ...

North Korea Says South Korea's Peace Overtures a 'Pipedream'

The North Korean leader's powerful sister said on Thursday that the country has never taken down propaganda loudspeakers and ...

Putin reaffirms 'friendship' with North Korea before Trump talks

Kim Jong Un provides Moscow with artillery, missiles - and as a BBC investigation shows, labourers working in 'slave-like' ...

North Korea's tallest building is an abandoned hotel that has never hosted a single guest. Take a look at the 'Hotel of Doom.'

At 1,080 feet, North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world.

North Korea denies loudspeaker removal, rejects Seoul outreach

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday denied Seoul's claim that the North had begun removing ...
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Pyongyang denies removing border loudspeakers

The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader on Thursday denied reports by the South Korean military that Pyongyang has ...

N Korea denies removing propaganda louspeakers at border

North Korea has "never removed" the speakers and "are not willing to remove them", Kim Yo Jong said in a statement published ...

With new weapons, cash and battleground experience from Ukraine, North Korea has become much more formidable

Is the new South Korean president’s softer approach to the North wise in a challenging new security environment?

North Korea is removing some of its speakers from their tense border, South Korea military says

Seoul, South Korea - South Korea's military said Saturday it detected North Korea removing some of its loudspeakers from the ...