The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

Kim Jong-un said his forces were ‘completely ready to hit and destroy targets at any time from any location’

State media releases first pictures of recent launches showing leader Kim Jong Un overseeing ‘tactical nuclear drills’.

It is rare for anyone to return to North Korea and even rarer for them to make it back to South Korea a second time. Yet Kim did both to help his mother, writes Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Min Joo Kim

WASHINGTON — The U.S. remains ready for talks with North Korea on denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, while ensuring “that we have also the capabilities in the region and ready to go in case we need them,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea early Sunday, Seoul's military said, the seventh such launch in two weeks, just hours after a nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier wrapped up joint drills off the Korean peninsula. Seoul, Tokyo and Washington have ramped up combined naval exercises in recent weeks,…

Pyongyang’s seventh weapons test in two weeks comes as it prepares to celebrate the ruling party’s founding day.

North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles early Sunday, adding to one of its biggest two-week barrages under Kim Jong Un that has ratcheted up tension to levels not seen in years.

One of the missiles landed outside Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) days after residents were told to take shelter in the country in the first "J-alert" since 2017

Launch is latest in country’s barrage of weapons tests