Spiraling geopolitical tensions have pushed the world to a "historic turning point" and are forcing Japan to change its defense posture, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told CNN Sunday ahead of a closely watched summit with US President Joe (...)
North Korea test-fired a presumed intermediate-range ballistic missile on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, its latest military maneuver since leader Kim Jong Un's New Year declaration that he was ending a policy seeking reconciliation with the (...)
Russia has shut down a panel of UN experts that have for years monitored sanctions against North Korea.
The panel last week said it was probing reports that Russia violated rules by buying North Korean weapons like ballistic missiles for use in (...)
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Monday, Seoul's military said.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the missile launches in the area of Pyongyang between 7:44 am and 8:22 (...)
North Korean hackers have broken into South Korean chip equipment makers, according to South Korea's spy agency.
Pyongyang is trying to make semiconductors for its weapons programs, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) says.
It comes a month (...)
North Korea hacked into the personal emails of an aide to the South Korean president, his office has confirmed to the BBC.
The breach occurred in the run-up to President Yoon Suk Yeol's state visit to the UK last November.
The staff member was (...)
Last month, reports emerged that North Koreans working in China had rioted, after finding out they would not be paid, and that their wages had instead been put toward building weapons for Pyongyang.
Instances of North Koreans protesting are (...)
North Korea has fired several cruise missiles in waters off its east coast, South Korea's military says.
In recent months the nuclear-armed communist state has tested missiles repeatedly, raising regional tension.
Sunday's launch took place near the (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit Kim Jong Un soon, North Korean state media reported Sunday, the latest sign of increasing cooperation between the two authoritarian leaders as war rages in Ukraine and military tensions increase in (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday vowed to remove a massive monument to the possible reunification of the Korean Peninsula that his father constructed in Pyongyang, calling it an "eyesore."
Kim's call during a speech at a Supreme People's (...)
North Korea on Monday claimed to have again tested a missile that could become one of the world's fastest and most accurate weapons — with the potential to ultimately be fitted with a nuclear warhead.
Kim Jong Un's regime successfully tested a (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's young daughter, who has accompanied him to missile tests and military parades, is his "most likely" successor, the South's spy agency has said.
It is the first time the National Intelligence Service has acknowledged (...)
South Korea's military condemned its northern neighbor on Friday after Pyongyang fired artillery rounds that fell within a maritime buffer zone that has long been a flashpoint between the two.
North Korea fired more than 200 rounds between 9 a.m. (...)
North Korea will no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with South Korea, Kim Jong Un has declared, as his nation vowed to put three new military spy satellites into orbit in 2024.
Kim said inter-Korean relations had become "a relationship (...)
South Korea, with the world's lowest birth rate, may soon find itself without enough troops to keep its military fully staffed as it deals with new threats in an increasingly tense Western Pacific region, analysts say.
Always wary of North Korea's (...)
North Korea launched a possible intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday morning in what analysts said indicated the growing reliability of the reclusive state's illegal weapons program.
The missile launched Monday exhibited the range to hit (...)
North Korea has warned any potential interference or attack on its "space assets" by the United States will be "deemed a declaration of war," the state media outlet KCNA reported on Saturday.
"The US Space Force's deplorable hostility toward the (...)
North Korea has begun rebuilding guard posts and bringing heavy firearms along the border with South Korea, after scrapping a 2018 inter-Korean military tension reduction deal, Yonhap News Agency reported Monday, citing the Defense (...)
North Korea has ripped up a five-year-old deal with Seoul aimed at lowering military tensions, in the latest escalation of a row between the two.
It all started when Pyongyang claimed to have successfully launched a spy satellite into space on (...)
North Korea claims it has successfully put a military spy satellite into space, after two earlier attempts failed this year.
It comes after a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un in September, where Moscow offered (...)
South Korea has suspended parts of its 2018 agreement with the North aimed at lowering military tensions.
This comes after Pyongyang claimed to have successfully launched a spy satellite into space.
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said the launch (...)
US soldier Travis King, who fled from South to North Korea before being returned home last month, is reportedly facing charges including desertion, and soliciting and possessing sexual images of a child.
The charges also reportedly include assault (...)
Moscow has pledged its "complete support" for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov, who is on an official trip to North Korea, also thanked the country for its support in Ukraine. His ongoing trip sets (...)
US Army Private Travis King arrived back on United States soil Thursday after being returned to American custody weeks after he crossed into North Korea, a Defense Department official said.
King flew in on a US military flight, landing at Kelly (...)
South Korea showcased an arsenal of advanced weaponry in a military parade on Tuesday, rolling tanks and missiles down the streets of its rain-soaked capital during the first event of its kind in a decade.
The parade, held to mark the 75th Armed (...)