Relations between the two U.S. allies have deteriorated sharply over the past year over war-time history and trade.

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday.

Health workers are struggling to track transmissions that are spreading quickly and unpredictably as people increase their activities and practice less social distancing.

South Korea in response said it would push new laws to ban activists from flying leaflets by balloon to the North, which triggered a debate over freedom of speech.

The election was watched around the world as one of the first nationwide votes since the pandemic began.

South Korea has been increasingly sidelined as denuclearization talks between the United States and North Korea have stalled.

President Moon Jae-in made the comments in a meeting with senior aides to discuss Japan’s imposition of trade curbs on South Korea. They came as a surprise since North Korea has raised tensions in recent weeks with tests of new short-range weapons that pose a threat to South Korea’s security.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would leave sanctions in place on North Korea as he and South Korean President Moon Jae-in discussed ways to get U.S.-North Korea nuclear talks back on track after a failed summit in Hanoi.

North Korea enters 2019 with a chance to broker peace or spark renewed fears of nuclear war in a second summit between Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.

During the G20 summit, U.S. President Donald Trump asked South Korea President Moon Jae-in to give Kim Jong Un the message.