Secretary of State Antony Blinken lauded South Korea’s response to its recent political turmoil as he reaffirmed US security ties with Seoul in the face of North Korea’s threats.

President Biden’s longtime aide rallied scores of nations to defend Ukraine, but then became a villain to the many critics of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

During this sensitive time of Seoul’s political turmoil, Blinken’s much-awaited visit to South Korea is the last gift that the Biden administration wants to offer its ally.

The U.S. secretary of state aimed to show that his country stood by South Korea as it grapples with a political crisis, and as Donald J. Trump returns to power.

After traveling more than a million miles on the job, the secretary of state discusses the Biden administration's foreign policy report card, from a reinvigorated NATO alliance and Russian aggression in Ukraine,

The United States “has confidence in the resilience of South Korea’s democracy and the strength of its institutions,” the U.S. Secretary of State said in Seoul.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, right, attend a joint press conference following their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man ...

The JCS said the South Korean military has heightened surveillance for additional launches and maintaining a readiness posture to share info with the U.S. and Japan.

US officials have said that they do not expect major shifts in the battle lines in eastern Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Russia may be close to sharing advanced satellite technology with North Korea after the isolated nation supplied troops to help bolster Moscow’s war in Ukraine, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Monday.

North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months. Japan's defence ministry said around noon local time (03:00 GMT) that the projectile had already fallen into the sea.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken lauded South Korea’s response to its recent political turmoil as he reaffirmed US security ties with Seoul in the face of North Korea’s threats. “What sets ...