Korea Zinc and Young Poong reported opposite results for the first half of this year. Korea Zinc cruised well, while Young Poong posted an operating loss.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an "obvious expression of their will to provoke war," state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.

After seven decades in the South, a former POW has a final wish: to spend his twilight inside a Kim regime he never stopped fighting for.

A California man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea that he said were to be used for a surprise attack on South Korea, authorities said Tuesday.

An illegal immigrant from China was sentenced to eight years in prison for smuggling weapons and sensitive technology to North Korea, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. Shenghua Wen, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China,

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

Born on April 9, 1945, Jang Seong-il, a “Hae-bang-ttungi” (a person born in 1945, the year of liberation from Japanese colonial rule), summarized his 80-year life as “feeling like I lived in many different countries.

Lombard Odier's Homin Lee says that political pledge of KOSPI to 5000 has been a key factor in driving market-friendly reforms that will ultimately catalyze and support South Korea’s market momentum.