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Meeting comes amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula as Pyongyang ramps up weapons tests and courts Russia.

Just 67 North Korean defectors arrived last year. Inter-Korean dialogue and exchange have ground to a halt. Seoul's Unification Ministry has a new, hawkish head who wants to change the agency's role.

Thousands of staff attend rally in Seoul demanding better protection amid spate of teacher suicides

Russia has likely proposed that North Korea participate in three-way naval exercises with China, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing with the director of South Korea’s top spy agency

The eccentric 79-year-old South Korean performance artist talks about his incredible career and why it’s important to mix the light with the dark

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Last week I was lucky enough to catch a preview of Past Lives, the quietly devastating forthcoming debut film from director Celine Song. Some critics are already proclaiming it the film of the year, making Past Lives the tortoise to Barbenheimer’s hare. It’s a very modern, wonderfully restrained, kind-of love…

More than 90 percent of South Koreans say they will reduce their seafood consumption due to radiation concerns.

Around 1,000 people from South Korea’s main opposition party and civil groups have staged a protest in downtown Seoul.