South Korea under President Lee Jae-myung is returning to pragmatic diplomacy, maintaining its US alliance while rejecting confrontation with China, reflecting public sentiment and prioritizing peace, ...

The 30-minute call comes as Lee, a liberal from South Korea's Democratic Party, seeks to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. North-South relations are at their most strained in decades amid Kim's ...

The Wonsan-Kalma beach resort is North Korea's biggest tourist site. KCNA said North Korea will begin service for domestic ...

North Korea did not immediately react to Mr. Lee’s inauguration. It had become increasingly hostile toward the South under Mr. Yoon, rejecting dialogue with it and threatening to use nuclear ...

“South Korea’s strategic balance between the U.S. and China, which Lee Jae-myung’s administration is talking about, is not referring to a 50-50, perfectly equal balance,” Lee Byong-Chul, a ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said that it remained unclear whether Seoul and Washington could conclude their tariff ...

Russia's propping up of North Korea "must end," the U.S. State Department said, after Moscow and Pyongyang pledged to "dynamically expand and develop" relations between the two countries.

Such a development challenges China’s traditional role as North Korea’s primary patron. In short, the arrest could be a symptom of worsening ties between the two countries.

President Lee Jae-myung's foreign policy signals a pragmatic shift: balancing US ties, managing China, engaging India, and redefining South Korea’s role as a strategic middle power in the Indo-Pacific ...

Hours after Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as the president of South Korea early on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping extended a congratulatory message, emphasising that China placed “great ...