Pyongyang is dependent on the world's second-largest economy, but the "blood-cemented alliance" doesn't extend to security ...

South Korea hosts the third-largest number of American troops outside the U.S.—after Japan and Germany—stationed there to help defend Seoul against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea and support ...

U.S. intelligence has said that North Korea’s deepening ties with Russia are enabling Kim Jong-un to “counterbalance” his ...

He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian ... You can get in touch with Micah by emailing m.mccartney@newsweek.com. North Korea has issued a warning to Japan over its upcoming ...

When it comes to energy production, specifically coal, no global military power comes close to China’s dominance in this ...

The presidential candidates representing South Korea’s two largest political parties agreed on the importance of the ...

American and South Korean officials often describe the Republic of Korea (ROK)-U.S. alliance as ironclad, with both allies ...

When ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol formally exited the ruling People Power Party (PPP) this week, allowing its candidate, Kim ...

May 8, 2025 US to seek UN sanctions on ships taking North Korean coal to China ... Korea said the construction of a new bridge linking it to Russia is a "significant" development of relations ...

Ruwitch joined NPR in early 2020, and has since chronicled the tectonic shift in America's relations with China ... took him as far afield as the China-North Korea border and the edge of the ...

Turmoil in South Korea ... to be seen. The North Korean and Chinese Threats Are Growing. But so Is the Trilateral Response. With renewed support from Russia and China, there are fears that ...

The division led to the founding of today’s North Korea and South Korea. Tensions between the two countries remain high as both want to bring a unified peninsula under its own rule. A heavy ...