Military generals from North and South Korea have met at a border village for talks on how to ease animosities between the rival countries after two clashes last week, South Korean media said.

A subway train has smashed into another train stopped at a station in South Korea’s capital Seoul, causing minor injuries for scores of people.

A distress call believed to be the first made from sinking South Korean ferry was made by a boy with a shaking voice, three minutes after the vessel made its fateful last turn.

Eight people have been stabbed or cut in a rampage at an underground station just outside South Korea’s capital Seoul.

South Korean warships fanned out across the Yellow Sea today to search for debris from North Korea's failed rocket launch, which brought humiliation for the country's new young leader and condemnation from a host of nations.

North Korea’s long-time leader Kim Jong Il has died of heart failure.

South Korea said today it scrambled F-16 fighter jets and returned fire after North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery on to a populated South Korean island near the countries’ western border.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was in China today on a visit to a school - his second appearance in the country this year.

Stormy conditions forced South Korea’s military to suspend the search for 46 sailors missing since a mysterious blast blew apart their navy ship last week, officials said today.

A NORTH Korean mine may have caused the explosion that sank a South Korean naval ship near a disputed maritime border, the defence minister told lawmakers yesterday.

Weeping, angry relatives of 46 crew members missing after a mysterious explosion sank a South Korean navy ship sailed around the site today as rescue teams took to the air and sea still hoping to find survivors.

Football officials today denied reports that North Korean labourers were working on football stadiums across South Africa in preparation for the World Cup.

South Korea’s troops went on high alert today for possible retaliation by North Korea after one of its navy ships was nearly destroyed and an officer reportedly killed in a skirmish with the South, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.

South Korea international Ki Sung-yong has reportedly agreed a deal to join Celtic in the January transfer window.

Former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung has died, it was reported today.

The US and South Korea have pinpointed 11 underground sites in North Korea where a third nuclear test could be conducted, a newspaper reported today ahead of a summit between the two allies on the communist regime’s growing atomic threat.

NORTH KOREA has transported its most advanced missile, believed to be capable of reaching Alaska, to a launch site on its west coast near China, news reports said.

THE US and South Korea put their military forces on high alert yesterday after North Korea renounced the truce keeping the peace between the two Koreas since 1953.

North Korea launched two more short-range missiles today, a day after conducting a nuclear test, according to news reports.

About 30 Tibetan Buddhist monks at a monastery in western China staged an anti-government protest today in front of a group of visiting foreign journalists, according to South Korean media.

North Korea may have launched a barrage of short-range missiles off the country’s west coast, a news report said today.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said today that his country will work closely with other countries to pressure North Korea to giving up its nuclear weapons if international talks on the impasse reconvene.

SOUTH KOREA and Russia were yesterday stepping up efforts to prevent North Korea from carrying out a nuclear test.

North Korea has removed all long-range missile equipment from a launch site, significantly lowering the possibility of a new test launch, the chief of South Korea’s main spy agency said today, according to Yonhap news agency.

South Korea’s defence chief today said North Korea was believed to have one or two nuclear weapons, amid growing concerns the communist regime may be preparing to test an atomic bomb for the first time.

Fierce gun battles raged in East Timor’s capital today, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, as international troops headed to the tiny nation to help it quell a rebellion by disgruntled ex-soldiers.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told China’s president he is committed to a peaceful resolution of the stand-off over the North’s nuclear ambitions as he wrapped up a week-long, secrecy-shrouded trip to his last major ally.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reportedly arrived in Beijing today for talks with President Hu Jintao on resuming stalled negotiations aimed at ending the North’s nuclear development.

Park Ji-Sung is reportedly ready to leave PSV Eindhoven and join Manchester United.

Six elephants escaped from an amusement park today and injured a woman as they rampaged through the South Korean capital of Seoul.

North Korea claims it has bolstered its nuclear arsenal to prevent the alleged threat of an invasion even as Washington’s top diplomat says time is running out for the communist government to return to international disarmament talks.

North Korea demanded an apology from the US today for designating the communist state as an “outpost of tyranny,” and threatened to resume long-range missile tests.

A South Korean man captured in Iraq is still alive, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

North Korea declared a state of emergency tonight after as many as 3,000 people were killed or injured when two fuel trains collided and exploded at a station near the Chinese border.

Thousands of people were reported injured, many killed, when two trains carrying oil and liquefied petroleum gas collided and exploded in a North Korean train station, hours after leader Kim Jong Il passed through on his return from a China visit.

After four days, a meeting of six nations discussing the dispute over North Korea’s nuclear program adjourned today with China’s foreign minister saying that “various serious differences” remained before the stand-off could be resolved.

High-level talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme will end on Saturday after encountering “differences” and “difficulties” and will be continued by the six nations involved through lower-level working groups, news reports and Chinese officials said.

North Korea today said it is willing to abandon nuclear development as soon as the United States discontinues what it called a hostile policy and eliminates “threats” against the communist country, according to South Korean news agency reported.

The US says it is willing to talk to North Korea but will not make concessions to freeze Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme.

Dozens of Daewoo car factory workers in South Korea have clashed with riot police during a rally to protest against mass lay-offs.