South Korea's Army conducted a live-fire artillery exercise along the east coast on Monday amid continuous threats of attacks and missile and artillery launches by North Korea.The large-scale naval firing drill along the East Sea mobilized artillery units belonging to the three Army corps stationed along the eastern front of the inter-Korean border, according to the military. The drill simulated an artillery counter-attack against a supposed North Korean naval provocation, the Army noted.About 2

South Korea and Japan practiced sharing information during an international missile defense exercise led by the United States, bolstering their defense ties in response to growing threats from North Korea, sources said Sunday.The two countries paired up in the drill, called Nimble Titan 16, where some 20 countries participated to practice information sharing, offense operations and anticipatory self-defense.The five-day training, which took place in February, was based on a mock submarine-launch

   WASHINGTON (AP)  The leaders of China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the heads of government converging on Washington for a summit on countering the nightmarish threat of nuclear terrorism. But with tensions in North Korea and the South China Sea running high, the meetings that Asian leaders have on the sidelines could attract more attention than the summit itself.    President Barack Obama has put a premium on expanding ties with Asia, in part to counter the rise of China. The U.S.

South Korea issued a warning Thursday after detecting satellite signal disruptions that it said appeared to be coming from North Korea.   The warning, issued at 7:30 p.m. in Seoul, the adjacent city of Incheon and the surrounding Gyeonggi and Gangwon provinces, came as North Korea discharged a large amount of radio waves to jam Global Positioning System signals in the region, officials said.   "We've detected signs that North Korea has been sending radio waves to the capital area since a month a

South Korea and the United States agreed Thursday to broaden their partnership on science and technology, such as cybersecurity and innovation.The agreement came after Choi Yang-hee -- minister of science, ICT and future planning -- held the talks earlier with John Holdren, senior adviser to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues in Seoul.It marked the 9th session of the joint committee meeting on science and technology cooperation between the two sides.The biennial forum, launc

South Korea plans to kick start a program to send five satellites into orbit by 2022 which will allow the military to keep close tabs on North Korea, defense officials said Thursday.The project, dubbed "425 project," has been stalled for a year amid budget limitations, with the National Assembly allocating only 2 billion won in the 2016 budget out of 64.3 billion won requested by the defense ministry. "The ministry has set its sights on reaching a contract within the latter half of this year," a

The White House on Wednesday rejected Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's idea of allowing South Korea to go nuclear in response to North Korean threats, saying it could give Pyongyang justification for its nuclear development."That prospect would be incredibly destabilizing," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. "Right now, the policy of the United States, a policy that is strongly supported by the broad international community, is that we should denuclearize the Korea

President Park Geun-hye arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a summit with her U.S. counterpart Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders on how to tackle the threats on nuclear terrorism and to strengthen an international regime for nuclear security.The biennial meeting, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, has been held every two years since Obama hosted the inaugural summit in 2010 as part of efforts to make the world free of nuclear weapons. This year's meeting is to be the final summit

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, known for proposing unconventional solutions to problems, has come up with an idea that he said would significantly reduce U.S. security burdens in Asia: arming South Korea and Japan with nuclear weapons.Trump's remarks have added weight to calls in South Korea for the country's own nuclear armament in the wake of North Korea's fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range missile test in February. Talking seriously about the topic itself

Defense Minister Han Min-koo on Wednesday urged the military to maintain a state of heightened readiness against possible North Korean provocations during President Park Geun-hye's overseas trip this week.Park left for a two-nation visit earlier in the day, which will take her to Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit as well as Mexico where bilateral talks are planned. Park is scheduled to return home next week.Han "called for thorough military preparedness during the president's state visi