So after long hours of negotiations, the two Koreas have agreed that high-level talks will go ahead this week. This was clearly no easy victory for either side, as the failure to agree on a joint statement shows. The battle is clearly not yet over since the DPRK (North Korea) has not yet said at [...]

This week one of South Korea’s most popular comedy sketch programs, Gag Concert, featured a skit about two Korean Chinese gang members attempting to extort money from an unsuspecting South Korean through a ruse known as “voice phishing”. [...]

An informal meeting between North and South could become an opportunity to improve the atmosphere for government-level negotiations. Will Seoul use this occasion to break a vicious circle of mistrust? [...]

SEOUL - Young North Korean defectors are individuals with different traits, and South Korean public education should treat them as such, a volunteer who has worked with them said. [...]

Author of "A Short History of Nuclear Folly" Rudolph Herzog talks to Justin Rohlrich about the implications of his book for North Korea's nuclear weapons program. [...]

Accounts suggest that Pyongyang acquired scientists for developing nuclear program decades before publicly acknowledging it [...]

With his book about to come out in South Korea for the first time, concentration camp prisoner Shin Dong-Hyuk says South Korea should be put on trial next to North Korean regime for turning a blind eye on human rights [...]

South Korea’s Ministry of Unification has launched a smart phone application for North Korean defectors in the South, according to the Dong-A Ilbo. [...]

If Seoul fails to respond forcefully to any military action by North Korea, then this is only likely to lead to further destabilizing behavior by Pyongyang, potentially in this crisis and certainly in the future. [...]

What did the BBC documentary at the heart of a dispute with the LSE actually, if anything, tell us? Not a lot, Robert Winstanley-Chesters argues. [...]