“South Korea is incomparably far ahead of North Korea in terms of conventional weapons,” said Choi Byung-ook, a national security professor at Sangmyung University. “We have smaller troops now, but I ...
South Korea's population may decline to just 15% of its current size by 2125 if existing demographic trends persist, a private think tank in Seoul has warned. The Korean Peninsula Population Institute ...
South Korea now has more than 10 million single-person households, a first for the country’s history and a demographic shift reflecting the low birth and marriage rates and an ageing population.
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population of males of enlistment age for mandatory service in the ...
The United Nations Population Division has estimated that about 12 percent of North Koreans are aged 65 or older. The U.N.