Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

You can get in touch with John by emailing [email protected] North Korea has mined border crossings on its side of the demilitarized zone, the South's military said this week, in another sign of ...

This week U.S. soldier Travis King crossed the Demilitarized Zone, often called the DMZ, which separates South Korea and North Korea. King went into North Korea "willfully and without ...

‘There are plenty of images of the Pentagon and the White House online,’ says a Defense Department spokesman, when asked about the North Korean report boasting of the spy satellite’s success. On ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea ... North Korean attack. South Korean tech companies Naver and Kakao Corp. on Friday started listing the addresses of bomb shelters, or civil defense shelters, on map ...

North Korea has sent aloft thousands of balloons with bags of trash attached since May, which have crossed the border to become a new source of tension with the neighbouring South. The balloons ...

Google Maps offers ... added. South Korea’s longstanding concern is that exporting detailed mapping data could expose key infrastructure to hostile threats, particularly from North Korea.

In May, North Korea retaliated by sending its own balloons to the South, loaded with trash in response to what Pyongyang called political “filth” from the South. The map locates the village of ...