The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

Pyongyang blames US ‘hostility’ as experts warn of return to ‘vicious cycle of provocation and sanctions’.

Accusing the U.S. of hostility, North Korea said it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities," in an apparent threat to resume testing nuclear devices and long-range missiles

North Korea will bolster its defences against the United States and consider resuming "all temporally-suspended activities", state news agency KCNA said on Thursday, an apparent reference to a self-imposed moratorium on tests of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

A federal judge has ruled that the parents of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. student who died after being taken hostage by North Korea and released by the country in a coma in 2017, should receive about $240,000 seized from a North Korean bank account

North Korea is attempting to improve its missile capabilities by repeatedly launching upgraded missiles. Japan should urgently consider possessing counterattack capabilities as a means of discouraging North Korea from attacking.

‘I will pursue inter-Korean coexistence through practical North Korea policies that benefit both the South and the North,’ says Lee Jae-myung

SEOUL -- North Korea's repeated missile launches are believed to be aimed at showing off its improved nuclear and missile technologies to gain an advantage in its standoff with the United States, with the U.N. Security Council unable to impose additional sanctions due to opposition from China and Russia.

Grappling with pandemic difficulties and US-led sanctions over his nuclear ambitions, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be reviving his 2017 playbook of nuclear and missile brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington and his neighbors. North Korea’s short-range missile launches on Monday were its fourth round of missile tests…

Grappling with the pandemic and U.S.-led sanctions over his nuclear ambitions, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be reviving his 2017 playbook of nuclear and missile brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington and his neighbors

Leader Kim Jong Un has said ‘military muscle’ necessary for self-defence, but repeated weapons tests increase concern.

North Korea says it conducted a test-firing of “tactical guided missiles” in its fourth round of missile launches this month