The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

North Korean leader echoes earlier bellicose rhetoric after promising to launch new satellites and expand arsenal.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his military to “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea if provoked, State media reported Monday that Kim made the order during a meeting with commanding army officers the previous day

Kim promises further military modernisation after conducting a record number of weapons tests in 2023.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will launch three additional military spy satellites and build more nuclear weapons

Former US president George W Bush’s concept of an “axis of evil”, introduced in his 2002 State of the Union address, came to define the flawed foreign policy decisions of his years in power.

South Korea's Defense Minister Shin Wonsik has said that a light-water reactor at North Korea’s main nuclear complex will likely be formally operational by next summer

The leader said this was in response to what he called confrontational moves by the US

Party speech suggests record year of weapons testing will continue into 2024 in defiance of international sanctions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for bolstered war readiness to repel what he says are unprecedented U.S.-led confrontational moves in comments during a key political meeting tasked with setting state objectives for 2024