Ch'ungch'Ong-Namdo, South Korea News

North Korea fired a sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, defying warnings from UN chief Ban Ki-moon and South Korea after a flurry of similar tests at the weekend.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Sunday fired a short-range missile into the East Sea, Yonhap News Agency said quoting an anonymous Seoul military official.

The United Nations chief has voiced hope that North Korea will abandon its missile tests, after the Stalinist state fired three short-range missiles into the sea on Saturday.

Hours after an abrupt instruction from President Park Guen-hye on Tuesday, Seoul's Unification Ministry proposed talks with Pyongyang on bringing South Korean products and raw materials out of a suspended joint industrial complex in a North Korean border city.

The south Korean regime is busy pressing a relevant institution not to show a documentary negating the "results of investigation" into the Cheonan warship sinking case.

North Korea has replaced a hawkish defence minister with a younger, little-known army commander, indicating the shakeup of the upper military echelons was still ongoing to strengthen its leader Kim Jong-un's grip over the armed forces.

In this May 6, 2013 photo, South Korean President's spokesman Yoon Chang-jung, third right top, watches South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right bottom, sign the guestbook as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, second right, looks on, at United Nations headquarters.

The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea released information bulletin No.

In this May 6, 2013 photo, South Korean President's spokesman Yoon Chang-jung, third right top, watches South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right bottom, sign the guestbook as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, second right, looks on, at United Nations headquarters.

President Park Geun-hye wrapped up her U.S. trip on Thursday on a mission to promulgate key security initiatives and pitch for wider investment to Korea.

After the film adaptation of his 2010 novel "Eungyo"- a tale about a 70-something poet falling for a teenage girl - created much hype even before its release, author Park Bum-shin in 2011 moved alone to his hometown Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province.

This is the second in a follow-up series to one which was published in the Expat Living section on March 6 and 13 and covered the ongoing native English teacher phaseouts in certain regions.

The South Korean military wants to ban a documentary that casts doubt on whether North Korea really sank the Navy corvette Cheonan.

South Korean President Park Geun Hye speaks to Korean members of the United Nations staff and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday.

North Korea's pursuit of nuclear capabilities and development of long-range ballistic missile programs make it one of the most critical U.S. security challenges in Northeast Asia, according to the Defense Department's first report to Congress on that nation's military development.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is praising South Korea's new president for what he calls her "firm, but measured" response to provocations by North Korea.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye left Sunday for the United States to meet with President Obama to discuss North Korean threats, officials said.

Exchange art exhibitions between Korea and the U.S. are helping people of each country to better understand the other's culture and history.

The ASEAN-Korea Center is organizing a special lecture series with former ambassadors to East Asian countries on the topic of "Rising ASEAN and Korea" in cooperation with the chambers of commerce and industry in Busan, Daejeon and Gwangju.

South Korea has withdrawn its last workers from Kaesong, once a joint zone inside reclusive North Korea.