The Latest Breaking News from Kim Jongun

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North Korea began 2023 as it had ended 2022 – with some characteristic sabre-rattling in the form of missile tests. Having launched more missiles in 2022 than in any other year, on the morning of January 1 this year, North Korea tested a large new multiple launch rocket system that,…

With Pyongyang provoking with purpose, the temperament of the White House will determine whether there will be a a repeat of the 2017 days of “fire and fury.”

Ri Yong-ho, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Korea from 2016 to 2020, has been reportedly executed by Kim Jong-un. The high-profile minister once called Donald Trump a 'Lying King'

South Korea called for joint nuclear exercises with the US on Monday, following another round of North Korean ballistic missile tests that capped a record-breaking 2022. Will tensions between the two Koreas escalate to the breaking point in 2023?

Kim called for mass production of short-range nuclear missiles in a meeting with the country's ruling Workers’ Party.

North Korean leader marks New Year with fresh ballistic missile launch just hours into 2023

They didn't mind the coup, the corruption, the sexual misconduct or the lies. But a trading-card scam — horrors!

North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles in the latest in a flurry of sanctions-busting weapons tests, South Korean officials said Friday, hours after Washington accused Pyongyang of delivering arms to the Russian private military group Wagner.

Earlier this month, North Korea said it tested a "high-thrust solid-fuel motor" for a new strategic weapon, a development that could allow it to possess a harder-to-detect arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister has attacked as "dog barking" and "rubbish" claims that spy satellite imagery published by the country is too crude for surveillance