The Kim regime’s heavy combat involvement could be a complication in peace talks over the war in Ukraine.

Scientists bought “snake liquor” in North Korea and identified its contents as the country’s first confirmed records of three venomous species of pit vipers. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In hopes of learning more about snake diversity in North ...

These cultural imports seem to have spurred demand for travel to Japan; in 2024 150,000 people flew there from Mexico, the highest tally on record. While small compared with the number of people visiting Japan from other countries, arrivals from Mexico were up by 60% from 2023, the fastest year-on-year growth of any country.

North Korea is stepping up criticism of South Korea's new President Lee Jae Myung as he prepares for his first summit with U.S President Donald Trump, calling Lee's efforts to engage with Pyongyang a "pipedream".

The world's third-largest machine tool manufacturer, DN Solutions, has broken ground for a factory at an industrial complex in the Indian city of Bengaluru.

This year, local reports state that as many as seven million tourists have visited the island off the south coast of South Korea’s mainland. Police have printed eight thousand copies to distribute among the arrivals to prevent any misbehaviour.

South Korea on Thursday received the remains of four soldiers presumed to be Turkish nationals who were killed while fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War after their return from the United States, the defense ministry said.