SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed major weapons tests and called for the military’s “deadly and destructive offensive posture” to be bolstered, state media reported Friday, days after the country commissioned its first naval destroyer. The development was...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has commissioned a 5,000-ton destroyer that leader Kim Jong Un touts as a symbol of the country’s growing naval and nuclear capabilities, state media reported Wednesday, as Pyongyang seeks to expand its ability to project military power at sea. North...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — China 's Xi Jinping is traveling to North Korea for the first time in nearly seven years in a trip that offers North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a stage to showcase an increasingly assertive foreign policy anchored by closer ties with his country 's former Cold...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called a U.S. push for the denuclearization of North Korea an "anachronistic dream," saying Sunday the North will steadily expand its nuclear arsenal in the face of U.S.-led threats. The statement came a day before...
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, both countries announced Friday, in what will be his first visit in nearly seven years. His trip will the latest in a series of steps by China to reinforce its close ties with its nuclear-armed neighbor, whose leader...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched an unidentified projectile off its west coast Tuesday, South Korea 's military said, in what appeared to be the North 's latest weapons test this year. A brief dispatch from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff gave no further details. It...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it test-launched ballistic missiles with cluster bomb warheads in the second such test this month, likely underscoring its push to expand its capabilities to penetrate U.S. and South Korean defenses. The report by the North’s official Korean...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, days after the U.N. 's nuclear watchdog warned that North Korea was making "very serious" advances in efforts to build nuclear weapons. South Korea 's Joint Chiefs...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un voiced support for China’s push to build a “multipolar world” and called for deeper ties between the traditional allies during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, state media said Saturday. During the meeting Friday,...
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea’s 20th-century history was reshaped by the Korean War, which devastated the nation, claimed countless lives, and tore families apart. At the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the memories of the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, remain permanently...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed a test of a high-thrust, solid-fuel engine for weapons and hailed it as a development to boost the country’s strategic military capability, state media reported Sunday. The test likely indicates Kim is intent on enlarging and...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hardline stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state, state media said Tuesday. In a speech Monday to...
