South Korea has proposed to hold talks with North Korea in an effort to resume the reunification of families separated since the Korean War, despite ongoing tensions on the Korean Peninsula over Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Syria strongly condemns the West’s smear campaign against Russia amid the Ukraine conflict.

North Korea has rejected as premature a call by the South to declare a formal end to the decades-long Korean War as long as the "US hostile policy" toward Pyongyang persists.

US returns 12 military sites to South Korea after years of squabbling over the hand-back.

President Xi Jinping says his country stands ready to fight anyone "creating trouble” for China.