North Korea

North Korea successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile into the sea this week in the latest weapons demonstration from the rogue nation.  Korean Central News Agency, the country’s state media, reported that the test was the first test flight of the “detached hypersonic gliding warhead” that met important technical requirements, The Associated Press reported. The missile test […]

North Korea launched at least one unidentified “projectile” from its eastern coast, the South Korean military said Tuesday. The Japanese Defense Ministry indicating the launch appeared to be of a ballistic weapon. No further details were immediately available. Earlier this month, the North fired two ballistic missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone — an act […]

South Korea believes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is not dead. After days of speculation and rumours of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s ill health and rumoured death. A South Korean government official has said Kim Jong Un is not dead. Rumours of the North Korean leader’s death had been fuelled by […]

North Korea launched at least two unidentified projectiles towards the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States. The South Korean military said the two short-range missiles were launched from a test site in the city of Kaechon, about 80km (50 miles) from […]

Kim Jong Un inspected the demonstration of a “new-type tactical guided weapon” on Thursday as a warning to South Korean “warmongers” to stop importing weapons and conducting joint military drills, a message that analysts said was also aimed at the United States. The short-range missiles were fired into the Sea of Japan, also known as […]

North Korea on Monday hailed the weekend meeting between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in the Demilitarized Zone as “historic”, as analysts said Pyongyang was looking to shape the narrative to its own agenda. The two leaders agreed to “resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in […]

Xi Jinping will make the first trip to North Korea by a Chinese president in 14 years this week, state media said Monday, as Beijing tightens relations with Pyongyang amid tensions with the United States. Xi will visit Pyongyang on Thursday and Friday at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Chinese […]

North Korea executed its special envoy to the United States following the collapse of the second summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday. The Chosun Ilbo said Kim Hyok Chol, who laid the groundwork for the Hanoi meeting and accompanied Kim on his private train, was […]

North Korea has fired another unidentified “projectile,” according to South Korea’s military. The weapon was launched from a location near Sino-ri in the NW, on a trajectory toward the east. Sino-ri has been identified in the past as the site of a missile operating base North Korea and the United States are currently deadlocked in […]

Kim Jong-un met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday at a summit designed to show that Washington is not the only power able to set the agenda on Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. The two men embarked on a day of talks on an island off the Russian Pacific city of Vladivostok two months after the North Korean leader’s summit […]