North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which "will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region".
The launch on Monday — Pyongyang's first in two months — came as US (...)
Donald Trump returning to the White House would be "a once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity" for North Korea, according to a man in a unique position to know.
Ri Il Kyu is the highest-profile defector to escape North Korea since 2016 and has been face (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Kim Jong Un for his support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine ahead of a rare trip to North Korea on Tuesday.
The two-day visit — the first for a Russian leader in a quarter century — comes as the two (...)
After Kim Jong Un's big green bulletproof train trundled around Russia's Far East last year, the North Korean leader invited Putin to visit him. That invitation was duly accepted.
Over the past week, sources had hinted that the visit was imminent, (...)
The US Air Force has tested a hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific for the first time, in what analysts say is a signal to China that Washington still competes in a weapons arena where many perceive Beijing to have a distinct advantage.
On March (...)
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 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 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 (...)
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 (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken part in a ceremony to reveal what Pyongyang says is its first submarine capable of launching nuclear weapons.
State media said the sub strengthened the country's nuclear deterrent by "leaps and bounds".
It (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his top general amid a shakeup of the country's military leadership and wants his army to "gird for a war," state media reported Thursday.
Gen. Pak Su Il was dismissed as chief of the General Staff and Vice (...)
Japan said Monday that North Korea notified it of a plan to launch a "satellite" between Wednesday and June 11, with Tokyo expressing concern it may instead test a ballistic missile in what would be another step towards Pyongyang developing its (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is calling for an "exponential increase" in his country's nuclear weapons arsenal in response to what he claims are threats from South Korea and the United States, Pyongyang's state media reported Sunday.
Kim's (...)
South Korea's military has apologized after a failed missile launch during a joint drill with the United States sparked alarm among residents in the coastal city of Gangneung.
They reported hearing an explosion and seeing a fire overnight.
But the (...)
Kim Yo-jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's powerful sister, has slammed Seoul's offer of economic aid in return for denuclearization steps, calling it the "height of absurdity".
"No one barters their destiny for corn cake," she said in a (...)
North Korea is ready to mobilize its nuclear war deterrent, its leader Kim Jong-un has claimed.
Speaking at a Korean War anniversary event, Kim added that the country was "fully ready for any military confrontation" with the US, state news agency (...)
The age of appeasing North Korea is over and any new talks between Seoul and Pyongyang must be initiated by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea's new conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Monday.
Speaking exclusively to CNN in his (...)
North Korea said it found nearly 220,000 more people with fever symptoms, despite leader Kim Jong Un claiming progress in slowing a largely undiagnosed spread of COVID-19 across his unvaccinated populace.
The outbreak has caused concern about (...)
US President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea on Friday for his first summit with President Yoon Suk-yeol on a range of issues including North Korea's nuclear program and supply chain risks, Yonhap News Agency reported.
Biden's Air Force One landed (...)
North Korea appears to have started repairing a closed nuclear testing site, according to satellite images.
The Punggye-ri site was shut in 2018 and some parts were blown up, after leader Kim Jong-un promised to halt all nuclear tests.
The new (...)
North Korea unveiled on Thursday a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as "the world's most powerful weapon".
Photos released by state media showed trucks carrying what appeared to be a new submarine-launched (...)
Aides to Kim Jong Un are convinced the North Korean leader plans "a great operation", state media said on Wednesday in a report that included lavish descriptions and images of the leader riding a white horse up North Korea's most sacred mountain.
In (...)
PRESIDENT Donald Trump was always contemptuous of the Obama nuclear deal with Iran. The Iranian negotiators ran rings around John Kerry, Obama's dull secretary of state. The Europeans, eager to profit from lifting sanctions, nodded through an (...)
The choice of Vietnam as the venue for a second US-North Korea summit this month shows the possibility of moving beyond conflict and division toward a thriving partnership, the US State Department said on Thursday.
State Department spokesman Robert (...)