World Jun 18 Putin arrives in North Korea for rare visit as Russia seeks to overcome U.S.-led sanctions Putin’s visit comes amid growing concerns about an arms arrangement in which Pyongyang provides Moscow with badly needed munitions to fuel Russia’s war in Ukraine.
World Jun 17 Russia’s Putin to visit North Korea, expected to meet with Kim Jong Un Putin's first trip to the country in 24 years comes amid international concerns about the two countries' expanding military cooperation.
World Jun 09 South Korea blares anti-North Korea propaganda at border in retaliation for trash balloons South Korea on Sunday resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure over the last couple of weeks.
World May 30 North Korea sends balloons carrying trash and manure over South Korea The North’s balloon activities may deepen public calls in South Korea to stop anti-North Korean leafleting to avoid unnecessary clashes.
World May 27 North Korean rocket carrying its 2nd spy satellite explodes in mid-air Monday's failed launch came hours after leaders of South Korea, China and Japan met in Seoul in their first trilateral meeting in more than four years.
World Mar 25 North Korea says Japan’s prime minister offered to meet with leader Kim Jong Un soon Some experts say North Korea is seeking to weaken the partnership Japan has with the U.S and South Korea while Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants to boost his declining approval rating at home.
World Feb 02 North Korea tests more missiles as Kim calls for war readiness North Korea on Friday extended a provocative series of weapons tests by firing cruise missiles into the sea, as leader Kim Jong Un called for his military to step up war preparations and toured a shipyard.
World Jan 24 North Korea says it tested a new cruise missile in the latest example of its expanding capabilities The test was reported in state media Thursday a day after South Korea's military said it detected the North firing cruise missiles into waters off its western coast.
World Jan 21 North Korea says Putin could soon visit, signaling alignment with Russia against U.S. North Korea said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his willingness to visit the North at an unspecified “early date” as the countries continue to align in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States.
World Jan 16 North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South, Kim Jong Un says The historic step discards a decades-long pursuit of peaceful unification based in a sense of national homogeneity shared by the Koreas. Tensions have risen as the pace of Kim's weapons development and the South's military exercises with the United States…