The coronavirus pandemic has now infected over 20 million people and has killed more than 746,000. Here are the latest updates for August 12:
Most places in South Korea received three to four times more rainfall last week than the average precipitation recorded in the same period in the last 30 years.
The report by an independent panel of experts monitoring UN sanctions said several countries, which it did not identify, believed North Korea's past six nuclear tests had likely helped it develop miniaturised nuclear devices.
Government keeps 10 percent of seats available at Korean Baseball Organization games from Sunday after league kicked off its season in May without spectators.
According to Everland amusement park, the panda cub was confirmed to be a female measuring 16.5 cm and weighing 197 grams and that both baby and mother pandas appear healthy.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency found his body at Mt Bugak in northern Seoul, near where his phone signal was last detected during a late-night search, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
Senior North Korean foreign ministry official Kwon Jong Gun ridiculed “nonsensical” calls by South Korea for revived negotiations between the US and North Korea, saying it has lost its relevance as a mediator.
According to widely-circulated screenshots of her last text message conversation with her mother, she begs her to "lay bare the sins" of her abusers.
Seventy years after the Korean War began, prospects for a peace treaty to officially end the conflict appear as distant as ever, as the two Koreas held low-key commemorations amid heightened tension on the peninsula.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a video conference meeting of the ruling party's Central Military Commission, where members decided to suspend the military plans. Kim's sister warned last week of military action against the south.
Tensions between the two Koreas has risen in recent weeks after the North blew up a joint liaison office on its side of the border, declared an end to dialogue and threatened military action.
Kim Yeon-chul, South Korea's point man for relations with the North, resigned over heightened tensions on the peninsula days after Pyongyang blew up its liaison office with the South.
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