North Korea

President Biden attended a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during his first trip to Asia since taking office.

U.S. and South Korean intelligence officials say North Korea may welcome Biden to the region with a ballistic missile test or its first detonation of a nuclear device since 2017.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made “self-reliance” his governing lynchpin during his decade in power and shunned international help for his people. But a massive outbreak of suspected COVID-19 has left Kim at a critical crossroads. Does he swallow his pride and accept help or does he go it alone even though a huge number of fatalities could...

North Korea said six people died and hundreds of thousands of others fell ill amid an explosive spread of fever across the nation, a day after it acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak in a largely unvaccinated population for the first time since the pandemic began.

North Korea has imposed a nationwide lockdown to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak of the pandemic. It had held for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping out the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world. The outbreak forced leader Kim Jong Un to wear a mask in...

South Korea’s departing liberal president has defended his policy of engaging North Korea. Moon Jae-in said in his farewell speech that he hopes efforts to restore peace between the Koreas would continue.

South Korea’s military says North Korea has flight-tested a ballistic missile that was likely fired from a submarine, continuing a provocative streak in weapons demonstrations that may culminate with a nuclear test in the coming weeks or months. The launch came three days after South Korea and Japan detected a suspected ballistic missile fired from near the North Korean capital....

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned again that the North could preemptively use its nuclear weapons if threatened. His latest comments came as he praised his top army officials for a massive military parade in Pyongyang this week. State media reported Saturday that Kim expressed “firm will” to continue developing his nuclear-armed military so that it could “preemptively...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to accelerate the development of nuclear weapons and threatened to use them if provoked in a speech he delivered at a military parade that featured powerful missiles capable of targeting the country’s rivals

North Korea says it has successfully test-launched a newly developed tactical guided weapon

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has attended a massive civilian parade in the capital Pyongyang to celebrate a milestone birth anniversary of his state-founding grandfather

North Korea’s most famous and distinctive state TV anchor, Ri Chun Hi, has announced the country’s major new events for decades, including nuclear and missile tests and the death of a leader

A cryptocurrency expert has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for helping North Korea evade U.S. sanctions.

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the South Korean defense minister a “scum-like guy” for talking about preemptive strikes on the North and warned the South may face “a serious threat.”

A transcript of remarks from Biden and Lee’s joint press conference following their meeting in Washington, as transcribed by the White House Press Office.

South Korea has dismissed North Korea’s claim to have launched a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile last week — displayed in an elaborate movie-style video starring Kim Jong Un.

In firing a massive intercontinental ballistic missile high into space, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has turned back the clock to the “fire and fury” days of 2017.

North Korean television broadcast the country’s latest massive missile test, with feature film style editing.

The launch extended a barrage of weapons demonstrations this year that analysts say are aimed at forcing the United States to accept the idea of North Korea as a nuclear power.

North Korea has fired possibly its biggest-yet intercontinental ballistic missile toward the sea, raising the ante in a pressure campaign aimed at forcing the US and other rivals to accept it as a nuclear power and remove crippling sanctions