Robert McNamara joins the Irish agri-food trade mission to Japan and finds Irish beef is cooking up a storm in Tokyo, where discerning customers are insisting on high-quality food and knowledge about its provenance.

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Five people have been killed in a helicopter crash at a South Korean marine base in the city of Pohang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un left his historic Singapore summit with US President Donald Trump last month with a massive political victory in hand, but questions remain how this will help his isolated country in pragmatic terms.

The assertion by the two Korean leaders, Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un, after an unexpected meeting on Saturday that North Korea is committed to “complete denuclearisation” and that a North Korea-US summit must be held offers a ray of hope in a dark, sometimes impenetrable situation.

The two Koreas will hold a high-level meeting tomorrow to discuss setting up military and Red Cross talks aimed at reducing border tension and restarting reunions between families separated by the Korean War.

North Korea’s desire for nuclear weapons cannot be conjured away, so it’s likely Kim will offer Trump assurances that are just a little more encouraging than those he offered to South Korea, writes Christopher R Hill

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has shaken off a suggestion that he receives the Nobel Peace Prize, saying Donald Trump "can take the Nobel prize" as long as the Koreas receive peace in return.

South Korea will remove propaganda-broadcasting loudspeakers from the border with North Korea this week as the rivals move to follow through with their leaders' summit declaration that produced reconciliation steps without a breakthrough in the nuclear standoff.

US president Donald Trump says he had "a long and very good talk" with the South Korean president after his historic meeting with North Korea's leader.

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.

Tomorrow's summit between South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is only the third time the leaders of the divided Koreas have met in the 65 years since the end of the Korean War.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean president Moon-Jae-in will plant a commemorative tree and inspect an honour guard together after Mr Kim walks across the border for their historic summit, Seoul officials said.

The desire for unity is common for North and South Koreans although the visions to achieve it differ ahead of this week's summit.

Samsung Securities is set to be included in a probe into the "overall stock markets system" in South Korea after it accidentally issued more than $100bn worth of shares to its employees.

Latest: South Korea's former president Park Geun-hye has been jailed for 24 years over a corruption scandal.

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

Twenty-four people have been injured after a bus carrying South Korean tourists crashed near the Alpine city of Salzburg, Austrian police said.

Motherwell goalkeeper Trevor Carson and Norwich full-back Jamal Lewis were handed their first Northern Ireland caps in Saturday's friendly against South Korea.

Northern Ireland fans could get a glimpse of the future at Windsor Park on Saturday after Michael O'Neill promoted Paul Smyth and Shayne Lavery to his senior squad.

Annual US-South Korean military drills that infuriate North Korea will begin on April 1, the allies have said.

A veteran South Korean actor who was under investigation for alleged sexual abuse of his students has been found dead.

A high-level South Korean delegation has arrived in North Korea's capital Pyongyang for a two-day visit expected to focus on improved relations and how to resolve the stand-off over the North's nuclear programme.

Prosecutors have demanded a 30-year prison term for former South Korean president Park Geun-hye for alleged bribery and abuse of power.

Kim Jong Un has expressed satisfaction with the North Korean delegation's visit to the South, in his first remarks since the high-level guests led by his sister returned to the North.

Scratch beneath the political permafrost and the frozen vials of Russian urine, set aside a far-from-thawed Cold War, and a Winter Olympics is threatening to break out in Pyeongchang.

The sister of the North Korean leader became the first member of her family to visit South Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War as part of a high-level delegation attending the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

As athletes make their way to Pyeongchang, South Korea, to take part in curling and bobsleigh, ice hockey and luge, will all the competitors be playing fair? Robert Hume on Winter Olympic dirty tricks Catching cool customers.

If yesterday’s weather forecasts were accurate then today parts of the country will, appropriately, lie under snow just as the Winter Olympics open in South Korea. In what seems a particularly apt challenge the Pyeongchang games have been named as a “peace Olympics”.

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 and South Korea have agreed to form their first joint Olympic team and their athletes will march together during the opening ceremony of next month’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, officials in Seoul have said.

Last year, Kim Jong Un shocked the world with the unexpected speed of his nuclear missile development, his brutal crackdown on apparent rivals and suspicions that he ordered the assassination of his half-brother with a chemical nerve agent.

Donald Trump has told South Korea’s president that he is open to talks with North Korea "at the appropriate time, under the right circumstances".

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

Senior South Korean officials are heading to the Demilitarised Zone for rare talks with their North Korean counterparts.

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

South Korea’s president has said sorry to Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan’s imperial army in the Second World War over what he calls a flawed 2015 deal with Tokyo to settle disputes over the issue.

Prosecutors in South Korea have levelled further bribery charges against the country’s ex-president, alleging she received official funds from her spy chiefs for personal purposes.