North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has opened a meeting to prepare for the upcoming ruling party congress, one of the country’s biggest political conferences meant to lay out new state priorities

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Friday that while there had been “the heartrending loss of nine lives,” he was grateful that all commanders and soldiers of an engineering regiment deployed to Russia’s Kursk region had returned safely.

Danish traveller Henrik Jeppesen, who has visited every country on Earth, says North Korea was the only place where he genuinely feared prison. His companion secretly scattered a friend’s ashes at the DMZ despite guides refusing permission,

Pyongyang paraded a new air-launched weapon that shares visual features similar to the Taurus, a cruise missile used by Seoul with a 300-mile range.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear weapons and missile programs despite UN Security Council sanctions and high-level diplomatic efforts. The country’s ballistic missile testing, military parades, and policy statements suggest that North Korea ...

For most of the world, the dark days of Covid-19 feel like a distant memory. But not in North Korea, said Justin Martell, who just became the first known American to step foot inside the secretive nation since the onset of the pandemic more than five years ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left) shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Sep. 13, 2023. Credit: Russian Presidential Office North Korea is believed to be preparing to send another group of ...

A missile is fired during a joint training exercise between the U.S. and South Korea at an undisclosed location in South Korea in May 2022. The U.S. has put South Korea on the "Sensitive Country List" despite being an ally. (South Korea Defense Ministry ...