Dealing with monetary policy and interest rates is the Bank of Korea's main role, but in May it will start hosting weddings — in an auditorium hung with the portraits of former central bank governors.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates' casual style was the subject of criticism in some South Korean media Tuesday after he shook hands with President Park Geun-hye, with one hand in his pocket.

North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, a report said Sunday.

North Korea has dismissed a claim by a right-wing U.S. website that it might have been behind the deadly bombings in Boston, decrying the report as “false propaganda” and insisting that it is against all terrorism.

North Korea has moved two short-range missile launchers to its east coast, apparently indicating it is pushing ahead with preparations for a test launch, a South Korean news agency reported on Sunday.

North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a U.S. condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss disarmament.

North Korea offered the United States and South Korea a list of conditions on Thursday for talks, including the lifting of U.N. sanctions, signaling a possible end to weeks of warlike hostility on the Korean peninsula.

A U.S. warship designed to fight in coastal areas arrived Thursday in Singapore for its Southeast Asian deployment, underlining President Barack Obama's new strategic focus on Asia.

North Korea barred a delivery of supplies to South Koreans in the closed Kaesong industrial zone Wednesday, as the South's president said it was time to stop rewarding Pyongyang's provocations.

South Korea on Wednesday called for a stronger international stance against North Korea's nuclear threats after Pyongyang said it will not be returning to the negotiating table with the United States.