The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia policy held talks with Seoul officials Thursday on key bilateral and regional issues, including the alliance, North Korea and likely the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.

DANDONG/SEOUL/SINGAPORE, March 11 (Reuters) - When Kim Jong Un arrived by armored train in Beijing for a military parade in September, the pageantry signaled a thaw in one of the world's most important relationships after several years of frosty ties.

State media images showed the two looking at a screen showing weapons being fired from a naval destroyer as North Korea threatens responses to U.S.-South Korea military drills.

The United States has begun a large military exercise with South Korea involving thousands of troops while also waging an escalating war in the Middle East.

The U.S. Army operates only a small number of THAAD batteries across the world, meaning a deployment can affect multiple theaters.

She said the drills come at a critical time when global security structure is collapsing rapidly. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

South Korea said Wednesday it could deter threats from the North even if the United States relocated some of its military assets to the Middle East amid the war in Iran. "Regardless of whether certain USFK assets are deployed overseas,

North Korea will hold an election on March 15 to pick delegates for its Supreme People's Assembly, KCNA state news agency said on Wednesday, likely in preparation for a new

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter fired pistols during an inspection of a light munitions factory, state media photos showed, as he pushes to modernize conventional forces after

SEOUL, March 11 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it supports the Iranian people's choice of new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named on Monday to succeed his father killed in the initial strikes against the country by the U.