South Korea on Wednesday repatriated six North Koreans across the maritime border in the East Sea, months after they drifted into southern waters and were rescued.

North Koreans’ repatriation comes as South Korea’s newly-elected president is working to improve inter-Korean ties.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited North Korea to strengthen strategic alliances against the US-South Korea-Japan security partnership. During the visit, he met with Kim Jong Un, reaffirming Russia-North Korea military cooperation and mutual support in the Ukraine conflict.

SEOUL, South Korea — Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday warned the U.S., South Korea and Japan against forming a security partnership targeting North Korea as he visited his country’s ally for talks on further solidifying their booming military and other cooperation.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says that it remains unclear whether Seoul and Washington can conclude their tariff negotiations by next week’s deadline set by President Donald Trump

Prosecutors have reportedly found evidence that former president Yoon Suk Yeol deployed drones over Pyongyang. Experts say it may have been a bid to provoke a response that would have justified his martial law decree.

Southeast Asian countries and Indo-Pacific partners, including South Korea and the United States, have called for efforts to achieve the "complete denuclearizat

While most embassies to North Korea operate out of Beijing, Türkiye’s ambassador to Pyongyang remains concurrently accredited from Seoul. This gives Ankara a potentially crucial backchannel role in de-escalation diplomacy, especially at a time when North Korea’s traditional diplomatic channels have nearly collapsed since the pandemic.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had called off his first visit to Japan and South Korea in early July to "focus on Middle East issues," Japanese media outlet Nikkei Asia reported. In response, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said that Rubio's visit to South Korea appears to be "difficult" to arrange in the near future.

South Korea will seek to ease inter-Korean tensions and renew dialogue with North Korea, while firmly responding to the North's nuclear and missile threats by working with the international community,