The United States will look at "flexibility" for its troops stationed in South Korea to operate against regional threats, but the focus of the alliance will remain on deterring North Korea, U.S.

North Korea test-fired rockets shortly before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived in South Korea, the country's military said.

His visit to the heavily fortified DMZ comes ahead of talks expected to revolve around reshaping the role of U.S. troops in Korea.

Hegseth and South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back received a briefing from military officials at Observation Post ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Korean Peninsula on Monday afternoon, the last ...

South Korea has paused official tours of the Joint Security Area — a site shared with the North in the Demilitarized Zone — ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to the Korean Peninsula.

A North Korean soldier was taken into custody on Sunday after crossing the heavily fortified border with South Korea, Seoul said, in what appeared to be the first military defection in over a year.

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the rivals' heavily fortified border on Sunday, South Korea's military said. The military took custody of the soldier who crossed the central ...

SEOUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - South Korea issued a "code-black" travel ban for parts of Cambodia on Wednesday and dispatched a team of high-level officials to help nationals lured into working in scam ...

South Korea resumed a project to excavate the remains of soldiers killed at a battle site in the DMZ, its military said Wednesday. The move was intended to help reduce inter-Korean tensions in the ...

SEOUL, Oct. 15 (UPI) --South Korea on Wednesday resumed an excavation project for the remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War at a battle site in the demilitarized zone, its military said, as ...

Satellite images obtained by a South Korean lawmaker show that the North is constructing a roughly 6-mile-long anti-tank barrier resembling the Cold War-era Berlin Wall, a lawmaker in Seoul said this ...