Tensions escalate once again on the Korean peninsula as North Korea conducts live-fire drills near its maritime border with the South for the third consecutive day, prompting fears of a significant escalation in hostilities. Residents on Yeonpyeong Island, a border island last hit by North Korean shells in 2010, are urged to stay indoors as gunfire echoes nearby. While none of Pyongyang’s artillery... 

A US Air Force Global Hawk drone in the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition The administration of US President Barack Obama has notified the Congress of a possible sale of advanced spy drones to South Korea. The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement dated Monday and distributed on Tuesday that the South Korean government had requested a $1.2-billion... 

North Korea has warned that US-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North’s deadly shelling of a South Korean island. The South’s naval live-fire drills are scheduled to run Monday through Friday at 27 sites. The regularly scheduled exercises are getting special attention... 

An estimated 600 former soldiers and police officers turned out on the streets of Seoul in this latest rally to demand revenge against the North for last week’s artillery attack. The North Korean shelling of a small island that killed four people has prompted outrage among South Koreans, many of whom see their own government’s response as weak. [Jung Jung-Ho, Secretary General, Korea Disabled... 

North Korea bombarded a South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, setting buildings ablaze and killing at least two marines after warning the South to halt military drills in the area, South Korean officials said. South Korea said it returned fire and scrambled fighter jets in response, and said the “inhumane” attack on civilian areas violated the 1953 armistice halting...