Since bursting onto the music scene five years ago, South Korean boy band BTS (“Bangtan Sonyeondan”, “Bulletproof Boys Scouts”) has become an incredible force for good, writes Aleydis Nissen.

Ahead of the Singapore summit, no one can know what Pyongyang’s ‘real’ intentions are. However, we can look inside the North Korean society for clues, says Katharine HS Moon.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will meet with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Lee Nak-yon at Government Buildings today.

North Korea is threatening to cancel the forthcoming summit with the US due to ongoing military exercises between America and South Korea, according to reports.

The demilitarised zone separating North and South Korea has been suggested as a possible meeting place.

A Korean Air heiress has apologised for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case after she allegedly threw a drink at someone during a business meeting.

Donald Trump has floated the idea of holding his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarised Zone that divides the Koreas.

Just as President Michael D Higgins told a United Nations meeting in New York that Ireland’s peace process could inspire countries to talk rather than go to war, the leaders of North and South Korea announced that they would work together to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump has claimed credit for the historic meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea and declared that peace on the divided peninsula could be achieved and its people could live in harmony.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump exchanged insults and threats of nuclear annihilation. Soft-spoken South Korean President Moon Jae-in struggled to be heard.

Latest: The two Koreas have agreed to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons in historic talks between the two leaders.

South Koreans watched as history unfolded and Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader they normally only see in heavily edited footage, walked across the border and had his every word broadcast live and unfiltered on airwaves across the country.

It’s uncertain what will come out of tomorrow’s talks between North and South Korea, dialogue is a better option than previous escalations, writes Peter Apps.

President Donald Trump says conversations between North and South Korea to end their decades-long war have his blessing.

Later this month Kim Jong-un of North Korea and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet for the first time at the “truce village” of Panmunjom for talks aimed at extending the recent détente on the Peninsula.

North and South Korea have begun preparatory talks to set up a summit later this month between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean president Moon Jae-in.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un clapped his hands as he, along with his wife and hundreds of other citizens, watched a rare performance by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has watched a rare performance by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang, according to reports from Seoul.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean president Moon Jae-in are to meet on April 27.

US President Donald Trump said there is "a good chance" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will "do what is right for his people and for humanity" and make moves towards peace.

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has shaken hands with South Korean president Moon Jae-in in a historic meeting during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

North Korea has held a military parade and rally in Kim Il Sung Square, just one day before South Korea hosts the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

The US is preparing to announce the "toughest and most aggressive" economic sanctions against North Korea, boosting pressure on the regime during the Winter Olympics, Mike Pence has said.

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been freed from jail after a South Korean appeal court gave him a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence for corruption in connection with a scandal which toppled the country's president.

North Korea is to send its nominal head of state to South Korea this week as the rivals push through with rare rapprochement steps ahead of this month's Winter Olympics in the South.

A hospital fire that killed 37 people in South Korea was most likely caused by an electrical fault in the first-floor emergency room, police have said.

Latest: A fire has raced through a small South Korean hospital with no sprinkler system, killing 37 people, many of them elderly, and injuring more than 140 others.

North Korea has agreed to send a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea, Seoul officials said.

A Seoul official says both Koreas have agreed to hold their first talks in more than two years next Tuesday.

America's constitution allows for the impeachment and removal of presidents and vice-presidents only when they have been found guilty of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”.

South Korea has offered high-level talks with rival North Korea to find ways to co-operate on next month's Winter Olympics in the South.

A fire at an eight-storey building in the central South Korean city of Jecheon has killed 28 people and injured 26 others.

A senior administration official told reporters during a White House background briefing that there was not enough time in the president's schedule to accommodate a visit.

A South Korean lawmaker says North Korean hackers may have stolen highly classified military documents that include US-South Korean wartime "decapitation strike" plans against the North Korean leadership, according to South Korean media reports.

The Korean Peninsula may be the most dangerous place in the world with the threat swapping between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ratcheting up tensions in the region. Brian Keane is chairperson of Seoul Gaels GAA club which lies 35 miles from the border with North Korea. He tells Colm O’Connor about life — and gaelic games — in the Far East in these tense times

A major push to win new business with Mexico, Korea, Canada, and Japan is to be made as part of the Government’s Brexit-proofing efforts.

Analysts are pouring over market charts of the Cuban missile crisis in the early 1960s and the war of words over North Korea to assess whether investors’ fright will calm any time soon.

"Since I met the club president a few weeks ago in Belfast I have been researching Asian football and Korean football in particular."

Sr Philomena O'Sullivan, a Columban sister originally from North Cork, has been named June Cork Person of the Month in recognition of her fifty years work as a nursing missionary in Korea.

A US Navy strike group is moving towards the Korean peninsula in a show of force aimed at North Korea.

Kim Jong Nam was attacked at a busy Kuala Lumpur airport terminal on February 13 and died shortly after two women approached him and wiped something on his face.

Hundreds of mostly elderly Koreans have began three days of reunions with loved ones many have had no contact with since war divided the North and South more than 60 years ago.