NORTH and South Korea beat the drums of war yesterday, with each threatening the other with immediate retaliation if attacked.

North Korea today threatened to launch a “sacred” nuclear war against South Korea if it is attacked

North Korea has branded South Korea's military exercise today as "provocative" and "offensive".

South Korea mobilised troops, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets today for its largest winter military drills in a show of force a month after North Korea’s deadly shelling of a front-line island.

South Korea has reported two new outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, bringing to four the total cases in a week.