North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il has pancreatic cancer, it was reported today.

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

SOUTH Korean police have arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of killing at least 19 people in what could be the country's biggest case of serial murder.

South Korea said today it will go ahead with its plan to send troops to Iraq despite the abduction of a South Korean man and the televised broadcast of his desperate pleas to stay alive.

More than 130 people are feared dead today after a man started a fire on a subway train in South Korea’s third-largest city.