A pair of American B-52H bombers was escorted by two Japanese F-2 fighter aircraft and two South Korean KF-16 fighter jets during a trilateral flight on Friday.

A sign of the shifting outlook toward North Korea is the government’s desire to describe North Korea not as the South’s ‘main enemy’ but simply as

North Korea made similar comments in April, after the U.S. flew B-1B Lancers over the peninsula alongside South Korean fighter jets. The exercise was a “grave provocation” that raised military tension to an “extreme dangerous level,” North Korea’s military said April 17 via KCNA.

The fishermen’s boats had drifted into South Korean waters, officials said. The South’s new president has been trying to improve ties with North Korea.

North Korea's defense ministry has lashed out at a recent joint aerial exercise staged by Japan, the United States and South Korea.

Police have detained six Americans in South Korea for allegedly trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, U.S. dollars bills and Bibles toward North Korea by sea. June 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM

South Korea on Wednesday repatriated six North Koreans across the maritime border in the East Sea, months after they drifted into southern waters and were rescued.