South Korea's president shook up the top echelon of his nation's spy agency on Sunday, accepting the resignations of the South Korean National Intelligence Service director and two of his top deputies all three of whom are believed to have been fired.
Meeting for the first time in about four years, the top diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China agreed Sunday to revive cooperation among the Asian neighbors and resume their leaders' trilateral summit - but without a specific timing.
As tensions surge in the wake of Tuesday's reconnaissance satellite launch by North Korea, Pyongyang killed off an inter-Korean conflict-prevention mechanism on Thursday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly gotten his first glimpses of U.S. military installations on Guam as his brand new military spy satellite passed over the U.S. Pacific island on Wednesday.