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South Korea says its troops fired warning shots toward North Korea along their tense border in the first such incident since the rivals took unprecedented steps to lower front-line animosities

Police say an exchange student from Korea was hit by a car and seriously injured while walking on a Long Island street. Suffolk County police say 19-year-old Sung Hyun Bae was hit around 10:40 p.m. Friday as he and two other people were walking in the middle of East Pulaski Road in Huntington Station. Police say Bae is being treated…

Marvel Comics is giving ink to an unprecedented team-up of its mightiest Asian and Asian American heroes, also known as the new Agents of Atlas.

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The United States formally ended seven decades of military presence in South Korea’s capital Friday with a ceremony to mark the opening of a new headquarters farther from North Korean artillery range. The command’s move to Camp Humphreys, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Seoul, comes amid a fledgling detente on the Korean Peninsula, though the relocation was planned...

South Koreans were hoisted into the air and hailed as heroes by Mexican soccer fans across the world Wednesday after what seemed like a World Cup miracle — Mexico stayed alive in the tournament thanks to South Korea’s unlikely victory in a totally different game.

fter South Korea’s stunning victory over world champion Germany saved the Mexican team from elimination, Mexican fans at the Korean embassy in Mexico City lifted South Korean fans onto their shoulders, chanting “Korean brother, you are Mexican now!”

The American military command in South Korea is preparing for the North Koreans to turn over the remains of an unknown number of U.S. or allied service members who have been missing since the Korean War, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Officials say the timing of a ceremony is uncertain but could be very soon. The officials weren’t authorized to discuss...

South Koreans cheered, Japanese snapped up a newspaper special edition and China made a suggestion Donald Trump may not like as the U.S. president held an unprecedented summit Tuesday with the leader of North Korea. Trump became the first sitting American president to meet a North Korean leader when he and Kim Jong Un sat down to talk at a...

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met face-to-face Tuesday in Singapore. The historic summit produced a document in which Kim reiterated a pledge to work toward denuclearization and Trump offered security guarantees.

South Koreans cheered, Japanese snapped up a newspaper special edition and China made a suggestion Donald Trump may not like as the U.S. president held an unprecedented summit Tuesday with the leader of North Korea. Trump became the first sitting American president to meet a North Korean leader when he and Kim Jong Un sat down to talk at a...

Spare a moment, as you anticipate one of the most unusual summits in modern history, to consider North Korea’s leader as he left the all-encompassing bubble of his locked-down stronghold of Pyongyang on Sunday and stepped off a jet onto Singapore soil for his planned sit-down with President Donald Trump on Tuesday. There’s just no recent precedent for the gamble...

Spare a moment, as you anticipate one of the most unusual summits in modern history, to consider North Korea’s leader as he left the all-encompassing bubble of his locked-down stronghold of Pyongyang on Sunday and stepped off a jet onto Singapore soil for his planned sit-down with President Donald Trump on Tuesday. There’s just no recent precedent for the gamble...

Long a dream of Koreans on both sides of the world’s most heavily armed border, a peace treaty that finally ends the 68-year-old (and still counting) Korean War is now being hinted at by President Donald Trump ahead of his summit Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Could it really happen? Complete North Korean denuclearization will likely take...

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman says he’ll travel to Singapore “for the historical summit” between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Rodman announced his trip in a tweet Friday, saying, “I’ll give whatever support is needed to my friends, @realDonaldTrump and Marshall Kim Jong Un.” An earlier version of the tweet, which noted he is being sponsored...

It may be the strangest feeling in decades to descend on the Korean Peninsula — a wave of optimism, and not always of the cautious variety, when it comes to North Korea and its nuclear bombs. Ahead of a planned summit Tuesday in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean autocrat Kim Jong Un, there has been talk of...

Heading into his North Korea summit with characteristic bravado, President Donald Trump said Thursday that “attitude” is more important than preparation as he looks to negotiate an accord with Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Preparing to depart Washington for the next week’s meeting, Trump dangled before Kim visions of normalized relations with the United States, economic investment...