South Korea’s birth rate has dropped throughout much of the past decade, spelling trouble for the military as regional threats and global conflicts simmer.

The two missiles tested on Saturday were designed to target aerial threats, including attack drones and cruise missiles, the Korea Central News Agency reported on Sunday.

North Korea said U.S.-South Korea joint military drills proved Washington's intention to "occupy" the Korean peninsula and aim at its enemy countries in the region, state media reported.

North Korea is "no longer content to have its nuclear weapons and be left alone," a former senior U.S. official told Newsweek.

Researchers in Washington issued a report Wednesday on the Pyongyang-situated facility, claiming between six to nine nuclear-capable ballistic missiles could be kept there.

By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said South Korea and its President Lee Jae Myung had a "dual personality" by talking about wanting to pursue peace while continuing joint military drills with the U.

South Korea's fertility rate—the world's lowest—stood at 0.75 births per woman in 2024, well below the 2.1 rate needed to sustain a population. That same year, the share of the population aged 65 and older passed 20 percent, making the nation as a so-called "super-aged" society along with Japan.

Why N. Korea's goose-stepping military parade was more than just show Kim Jong Un cites the "anti-North Korea policy of the United States."

South Korea will end some military activities along its border with North Korea, President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday, in his government's latest effort to improve ties between the neighbours still technically at war.