Korean Artillery Attack

North Korea's artillery shelling near a South Korean warship patrolling disputed waters was likely a warning, not an attack attempt, Seoul officials and analysts said Friday.

The United States and South Korea began naval exercises on Sunday that were meant as a warning to North Korea for recent provocations, including last week's deadly artillery attack on a island populated by South Koreans in the Yellow Sea. At the same time, China stepped up its diplomatic efforts to cool tempers in the region, with a senior envoy ho...

South Korea is honouring two marines killed in a North Korean artillery attack that was one of the worst bombardments of its territory since the 1950-53 Korean War.At a funeral on Saturday in Seongnam, near Seoul, dignitaries and relatives placed white flowers at a funeral alter for the two marines killed in last Tuesday's attack on a South Korean ...

Rescuers found the burned bodies on Wednesday of two islanders killed in a North Korean artillery attack - the first civilian deaths from a skirmish that marked a dramatic escalation of tensions between the rival Koreas.The barrage on the tiny island of Yeonpyeong in the western waters near the Koreas' maritime border also killed two South Korean m...

North Korea's artillery shelling near a South Korean warship patrolling disputed waters was likely a warning, not an attack attempt, Seoul officials and analysts said Friday.

The United States and South Korea began naval exercises on Sunday that were meant as a warning to North Korea for recent provocations, including last week's deadly artillery attack on a island populated by South Koreans in the Yellow Sea. At the same time, China stepped up its diplomatic efforts to cool tempers in the region, with a senior envoy ho...

South Korea is honouring two marines killed in a North Korean artillery attack that was one of the worst bombardments of its territory since the 1950-53 Korean War.At a funeral on Saturday in Seongnam, near Seoul, dignitaries and relatives placed white flowers at a funeral alter for the two marines killed in last Tuesday's attack on a South Korean ...

Rescuers found the burned bodies on Wednesday of two islanders killed in a North Korean artillery attack - the first civilian deaths from a skirmish that marked a dramatic escalation of tensions between the rival Koreas.The barrage on the tiny island of Yeonpyeong in the western waters near the Koreas' maritime border also killed two South Korean m...