North 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.

A top South Korean official says his country is confident there have been no unusual developments in North Korea, suggesting that rumors about the possible ill health of leader Kim Jong Un are untrue

Recent satellite photos show a train probably belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un parked at his compound on the country’s east coast amid mounting speculation about Kim’s health.

Kim Jong Un’s disappearance from the public eye is raising speculation about not only his health but also about who’s next in line to run North Korea if anything happens to the 36-year-old leader

South Korean officials say they’ve seen no unusual activity in North Korea and leader Kim Jong Un appears to be handling state affairs as usual

President Donald Trump wished Kim Jong Un well after reports surfaced that the North Korean leader is in serious condition after undergoing surgery.

North Korea has dismissed as “ungrounded” President Donald Trump’s comment that he recently received “a nice note” from the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un.

South Korea’s military says a barrage of North Korean missiles fired from the ground and fighter jets has splashed down in the waters off the country’s east coast — a major show of force on the eve of a key state anniversary in the North and parliamentary elections in the rival South

South Korea says North Korea has fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, calling it “very inappropriate” at a time when the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic.

North Korea says President Donald Trump has sent a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seeking to maintain good relations and offering cooperation in fighting the viral pandemic

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised another round of artillery exercises, the latest in a series of exercises believed aimed at boosting its fighting capability.