North Korea

In a recent report, Hyuk Kim from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) in California noted that the international sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear weapons program may have impeded its access to AI…

A Russian military delegation led by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is due to visit North Korea this week, joining a Chinese group as the first such public visitors to the country since the start of the pandemic. Russia's Defence…

North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Kim Song has told the Security Council that the country's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was an exercise of its right to self-defense. The 15-member Security Council met after North…

North Korea has conducted a missile test with its longest ever flight time off its east coast as leaders of South Korea and Japan are set to meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit to discuss threats including the nuclear-armed North. The…

North Korea has warned that it may shoot down United States planes that conduct surveillance flights and violate its airspace. Provocative military actions by the United States were bringing the Korean peninsula closer to a nuclear…

North Korea has held mass rallies in Pyongyang where people shouted slogans vowing a "war of revenge" to destroy the United States, as it marked the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. State news agency KCNA reports that…

China and North Korea have expressed their support for Russia after an aborted mutiny by the Wagner group of heavily armed mercenaries. China's foreign ministry said China supports Russia in maintaining its national stability and that…

North Korea has criticised U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's recent visit to Beijing describing it as a "begging trip". In a commentary carried by the North's KCNA news agency, Jong Yong Hak, whom it described as an international…

A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine has arrived at a port in the South Korean city of Busan, the South Korean military says. It is the first time a submarine classified as "SSGN" by the US Navy, or a cruise-missile submarine, has stopped…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to "hold hands" with Russian President Vladimir Putin and bolster strategic cooperation on their shared goal of building a powerful country. Kim made the pledge in a message to Putin marking…