North Korea

North Korea says its leader, Kim Jong Un, has suspended planned military retaliation against South Korea for stalemated relations and anti-North activism

As tensions ratchet up between the two nations, North Korea is preparing to flood the South with “mountain-high” piles of propaganda leaflets denouncing the South Korean president and North Korean defectors, state media in the country reported Saturday. Many of the leaflets will feature the face of South Korean President Moon Jae-in smeared with cigarette butts, an insult insinuating he is trash,...

South Korea’s president has accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations

North Korea says it will send soldiers to now-shuttered inter-Korean tourism and economic sites in its territory, reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at front-line areas

North Korea has blown up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea

South Korea’s president has urged North Korea to stop raising animosities and return to talks amid mounting worries about potential provocation by North Korea

South Korea has convened an emergency security meeting and urged North Korea to uphold reconciliation agreements, hours after the North threatened to demolish a liaison office and take military action against its rival

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened South Korea with military action as she bashed Seoul over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.

North Korea said it was pulling away from the relationship with the U.S. two years after a historic handshake between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, in Singapore, saying there had been no actual improvement in ties.

North Korea says it is cutting off all communication channels with South Korea

The Justice Department has accused a network of North Korean and Chinese citizens of secretly advancing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program by channeling at least $2.5 billion in illicit payments through hundreds of front companies

North Korea’s state media say leader Kim Jong Un has convened a key military meeting to discuss bolstering its nuclear arsenal and putting his country’s strategic armed forces on a high alert

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Kim Jong Un a commemorative war medal marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said Tuesday.

South Korea says it protested to North Korea over the exchange of gunfire inside their heavily fortified border.

South Korea says its troops fired warning shots toward North Korea along their tense border in the first such incident since the rivals took unprecedented steps to lower front-line animosities

The mystery surrounding what happened to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un might have been answered after photos emerged Friday in a North Korean state-owned newspaper showing Kim cutting a red ribbon at the opening of a fertilizer plant in Suncheon In. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency also reported that Kim appeared at the grand opening. He appeared to be...

North Korea’s collapse has been predicted — wrongly — for decades

As questions mount about the health of Kim Jong Un, an underlying concern looms for spies, policymakers and curious watchers alike

Kim Jong Un has not been seen in public for over two weeks, sparking speculation on the North Korean leader’s health, even as South Korea says its intelligence shows “nothing unusual.”

It’s still unclear whether something has happened to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose prolonged absence from the public eye amid rumors of ill health has sent the outside world scrambling for information.