South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a prison sentence for a former U.S. forces employee convicted of smuggling drugs using the military mail system.

The saga of Sae Joon Park, a Los Angeles Army veteran who legally immigrated to the United States, was awarded a Purple Heart after being wounded in combat and self-deported to South Korea, was highlighted during a testy congressional hearing about the Trump administration’s immigration policy.

HJ Shipbuilding and Construction, a midsize South Korean shipbuilder, will start maintenance work on the USNS Amelia Earhart early next year.

South Korea's air force scrambled fighter jets as nine Chinese and Russian military aircraft briefly entered its air defense zone on Tuesday morning, military officials said.

"I just feel that this is unfair for those who fought for our country to be treated this way," Sae Joon Park told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview.

South Korea has signed a deal to supply military equipment to the Peruvian army, South Korea's presidential office said on Wednesday.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said regular joint military drills with the US could be reviewed in order to facilitate dialogue with North Korea, in his latest olive branch to Pyongyang as he seeks to reduce tensions with the nuclear-armed neighbor.

U.S. and South Korean forces have recovered an Air Force drone that crashed last month off the country’s western coast, the 8th Fighter Wing said.