South Korea must become more vocal in protesting China's use of 'gray zone tactics' to expand its maritime sovereignty, analysts say

In spite of a bilateral agreement banning development, China has placed a large structure in an area of the West Sea that South Korea says is its territory.China has installed a large floating structure in waters that it disputes with South Korea,

With the fate of suspended South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol hanging in the balance, the country has also been left facing an uncertain future as it battles through the resulting political turmoil.

Control of Korea Zinc, the world’s largest producer of zinc, is at stake in a battle challenging the country’s entrenched chaebol system of powerful conglomerates.

The area in question lies within the Provisional Measures Zone, established in 2001 to manage disputes over overlapping exclusive economic zones (EEZs) between the two countries. The agreement prohibits constructing facilities or exploiting resources other than fishing, pending a permanent boundary resolution.

South Korea’s impeached president has denied that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time before the Constitutional Court that will determine his fate.

BEIJING — A growing number of countries are confronting ... Elsewhere in Asia, Japan's population has been falling for 15 years, while South Korea's growth turned negative in 2021. In Italy, the number of births has fallen below 400,000 for the first ...

Japan on Thursday formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tension from Russia, China and North Korea

(Reuters) - Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.

South Korea rebuked President Trump’s remarks calling North Korea a “nuclear power,” raising concern about the relationship between the two countries. “North Korea’s denuclearization remains a

Lunar New Year is celebrated, first of all, by plenty of ethnically Chinese people who have no truck with the CCP and no loyalty to the contemporary Chinese state — across China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and beyond.

South Korea said denuclearization was still the goal after President Donald Trump used a phrase that could imply recognition of North Korea as a nuclear-armed state.