North Korea

A man concealed items inside shipping containers in Long Beach that were bound for North Korea, federal authorities say.

North Korea is bragging of its recently tested new intercontinental ballistic missile, calling it “the world’s strongest” and “perfected.”

Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran across the Demilitarized Zone and into North Korea last year, was sentenced Friday to a prison term that amounts to the time he has already served.

Travis King, a U.S. Army private who ran into North Korea last year, pleaded guilty and was set free on Friday.

North Korea has offered a rare glimpse into a secretive facility to produce nuclear materials as it says leader Kim Jong Un visited the area and called for stronger efforts to increase his nuclear weapons.

South Korea has resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure over the last couple of weeks.

North Korea floated huge balloons to dump trashes like manures, cigarette butts, scrap cloth pieces and waste batteries across rival South Korea.

North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days after the end of the South Korean-U.S. military drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal.

North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has supervised test firings of new cruise missiles designed to be launched from submarines and also reviewed efforts to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

North Korea says it has agreed to further strategic and tactical cooperation with Russia to establish a “new multi-polarized international order,” as the two countries work to build a united front in the face of their separate, intensifying tensions with the United States.

A video from inside North Korea shows two teenagers being publicly sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for watching Korean TV dramas, a rare glimpse into Kim Jong Un’s reclusive state that comes as its neighbor reports a soaring number of defectors since 2021.

North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise by South Korea, the United States and Japan this week, as it continues to blame its rivals for raising tensions in the region.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries.

North Korea says it has flight-tested a new solid-fuel intermediate-range missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead as it pursues more powerful, harder-to-detect weapons designed to strike remote U.S. targets in the region.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile off the North’s east coast but gave no further details like how far the weapon flew.

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.

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

South Korea says North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea in a resumption of its weapons testing activities.

Kim’s latest appeal for women to have more children was made Sunday during the country’s National Mothers Meeting, the first of its kind in 11 years.

South Korea says it will partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement to restart frontline aerial surveillance of North Korea, after the North said it launched a military spy satellite in violation of United Nations bans.