Andrew Salmon

SEOUL, South Korea — New reports from Kyiv say that North Korea is deploying troops to Russia that could be used to fight in Ukraine, with some 3,000 North Korean troops now undergoing training in Russia's Far East.

SEOUL, South Korea – Democracies east and west are joining forces to keep tabs on North Korean violations of economic and security sanctions after Russia torpedoed a previous monitoring effort authorized by the United Nations.

SEOUL, South Korea — Mounting reports that North Korea is set to be the first outside power to directly intervene in the Russia-Ukraine conflict are posing perhaps the most serious challenge yet to the U.S. and its allies from the “axis” of authoritarian states looking to overturn the global security order.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting the annual summit of BRICS, a high-prestige stage that offers him an opportunity to showcase his defiance of U.S.-led efforts to isolate his regime and punish the Kremlin for its decision to invade Ukraine more than two years ago.

SEOUL, South Korea – With Russian President Vladimir Putin de facto confirming multiple signals of a North Korean troop presence in Russia and indications rising of their deployment to the war-torn Kursk oblast, Seoul is caught in a bind.

Preliminary tallies in Japan’s snap general election on Sunday indicated that new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s conservative coalition would lose its majority in the Diet’s House of Representatives.

Gambling in a bid for a stronger mandate, Japan's new prime minister called a general election a year before he needed to, only to see his Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner lose their comfortable majority in the Diet's Lower House in Sunday's vote. The result raises fresh questions about the staying power of a key U.S. ally in Asia.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday morning test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile with the range to hit the continental United States, just five days before the U.S. presidential election.

SEOUL, South Korea — As thousands of North Korean troops prepare to join Russia's war against Ukraine, the quality of Pyongyang's troops is coming under intense — and generally unfavorable — scrutiny.

With the sun setting on the Biden administration and South Korean policymaking frozen by a presidential impeachment drama, North Korea continued to act true to form Monday.