Younger South Koreans worry that merging the countries would crush their successful society.
A South Korean nuclear expert says North Korea has finished preparations for a third nuclear test and is awaiting a political decision to go ahead.
US President Barack Obama has urged China to use its influence to stop North Korea’s "bad behaviour" in a nuclear standoff with the West.
Kim Jong-un has been identified as head of a top decision-making body of the Workers’ Party, giving him authority over political and military matters.
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/ 24 December 2011
North Korea has vowed to uphold with ‘blood and tears’ Kim Jong-il’s son as ‘supreme commander’ as the country prepares him to be its leader.
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/ 24 December 2011
North Korea appears to be making an orderly transition after the death of Kim Jong-il last week, but the risk of collapse is higher than before.
North Korea’s new young leader Kim Jong-un will have to share power with an uncle and the military after the death of his father Kim Jong-il.
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/ 20 December 2011
The body of North Korea’s long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin on Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas.
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/ 19 December 2011
North Korea has test-fired a short-range missile on its eastern coast on the day its leader Kim Jong-Il’s death was announced.
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/ 14 October 2011
Analysts say a South Korean company’s interest in buying 20% of Telkom may offer the ailing company some much-needed strategic vision.
Defending women’s 800m champion Caster Semenya returns to world competition on a busy day six of the World Athletics Championships on Thursday.
South Korea and the US have launched a massive joint military exercise, drawing condemnation from the North, which warned of "all-out war".
North Korea has fired artillery shells near its Yellow Sea border with South Korea for the second time in a day, says Seoul’s defence ministry.
Jacques Rogge says Tokyo should not be discouraged from bidding for the 2020 Olympics just because South Korea won the right to host the 2018 Games.
A senior North Korean sports official has been quoted saying North Korea would like to share some events in the 2018 Winter Olympics with South Korea.
Developing countries across the world have been urged to take heart from Pyeongchang’s winning bid to be the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Asian players are easy prey for match-fixers, who are now so rampant they are believed to operate in nearly every Asian football league.
South Korean animator Choi Jong-Il knew he had a hit on his hands when Pororo the penguin hopped on to TV screens back in 2003.
The unflinching face-off between the Koreas is a curious hangover in a world that has moved on.
Samsung Electronics has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the US firm’s iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case.
Regulators have launched an inquiry into South Korea’s largest banking network after a suspected cyber-attack left customers unable to access money.
South Korea’s top two internet companies filed complaints with the antitrust watchdog on Friday against Google.
Small amounts of radiation from Japan’s leaking nuclear power plant have spread across Asia, authorities said on Tuesday.
Abortions of female foetuses have led to a massive surplus of young unmarried men in India and China, raising fears of an outcast group.
North Korea on Tuesday rejected South Korea’s plea to stop beaming signals aimed at disturbing Seoul’s military and mobile communications.
South Korea’s biggest mobile phone carrier has devised a smartphone application to raise the national standard over homes on important holidays.
North Korea has stepped up calls for international food aid amid shortages caused by its economic mismanagement and military spending.
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/ 16 February 2011
North Korea was in festive mood as leader Kim Jong-il turned 69 on Wednesday, state media reported.
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/ 9 February 2011
South Korea agreed on Wednesday to hold talks with North Korea on humanitarian issues between the rivals.
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/ 17 January 2011
Somali pirates hijacked a Greek-owned bulk carrier on Monday after releasing a Greek-owned tanker the day before, the European Union Naval Force says.
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/ 17 January 2011
Impoverished North Korea could bring its own collapse if it keeps pouring scarce national resources into its nuclear weapons programme.
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/ 10 January 2011
Computer hackers from South and North Korea are waging an apparent propaganda battle in cyberspace.