The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

Economic sanctions, the primary means the United States has used for years to try to exert pressure on North Korea, have abjectly failed to halt its nuclear and missile programs or to bring the reclusive northeast Asian state back to the negotiating table.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday condemned North Korea's recent missile launches, urging Pyongyang to "immediately desist from taking any further provocative action" and take immediate steps to resume talks aimed at the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a U.N. spokesman said.

North Korea's huge show of military jets comes just a day after the authoritarian state fired about 30 ballistic missiles during the two previous days

US and South Korea extend military exercise till Saturday in response to North’s intestified missile tests

North Korea has dramatically ramped up missile tests this year and tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) on Thursday, as part of efforts to develop a nuclear-tipped missile that can strike the U.S. mainland.

South Korea has scrambled dozens of military aircraft, including advanced F35 fighter jets, after spotting 180 North Korean warplanes flying in North Korean territory in what appeared to be a defiant show of strength

The defence chiefs of the United States and South Korea on Thursday warned North Korea that any nuclear attack against them by Pyongyang would "result in the end" of leader Kim Jong-un's regime as concerns grow over the isolated country's unprecedented pace of weapons tests this year.

South Korea's military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean military flights north of the two countries' border over four hours on Friday.

North Korea fired an artillery barrage into a maritime "buffer zone" overnight, Seoul's military said Friday, after a record-breaking blitz of launches that included a failed intercontinental ballistic missile test. Seoul and Washington, which have warned Pyongyang's recent launches could culminate in a nuclear test, extended their largest-ever joint air…