North Korea insulted President Donald Trump again Monday, calling him a “heedless and erratic old man” after he tweeted that Kim Jong-un wouldn’t want to abandon a special relationship between the two leaders and affect the U.S. presidential election by resuming hostile acts.
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The parents of former U.S. hostage Otto Warmbier, who died after being released from North Korea in a coma in 2017, are seeking to find and shut down illicit North Korean business assets around the world, to hold its government accountable for human rights abuses.
Read moreNorth Korea is “no longer interested” in summits with the United States unless Washington offers new concessions in their nuclear negotiations, Pyongyang said Monday, even as Trump postponed a joint military drill with South Korea as a sop to the North.
Read moreNorth Korea called former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden a “rabid dog” that “must be beaten to death with a stick” in its latest swipe against foreign and political leaders it sees as hostile to the North’s leadership.
Read moreIn an extremely unusual case, South Korea deported two North Korean fishermen on Thursday after finding they had killed 16 other crew members on their boat and then fled to South Korean waters, Seoul officials said.
Read moreA federal judge granted partial summary judgment to 82 crew members of the USS Pueblo captured by North Korea in international waters in 1968, after which they were held hostage under inhuman conditions for almost a year; the actions constituted state-sponsored terrorism.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the destruction of South Korean-made hotels and other tourist facilities at the North’s Diamond Mountain resort, apparently because Seoul won’t defy international sanctions and resume South Korean tours at the site.
Read moreNearly 20 pro-Pyongyang South Korean students broke into the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Seoul Friday, displaying banners demanding Harry Harris leave the country, in an embarrassing security breach.
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North Korea released a series of photos Wednesday showing leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse to a sacred mountain he has often climbed before making key decisions. Near the mountain, Kim reportedly vowed to overcome U.S.-led sanctions that he said had both pained and infuriated his people.
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North Korea held South Korea to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in a World Cup qualifying soccer match, though it is unclear how many people saw the game in Pyongyang.
Read moreNorth Korea’s chief negotiator said that nuclear talks with the United States had broken down, but Washington claimed the two sides had “good discussions” in Sweden that it intends to build on in two weeks.
Read moreA senior North Korean diplomat on Tuesday said North Korea and the United States have agreed to resume nuclear negotiations on Oct. 5 after a months-long stalemate over withdrawal of sanctions in exchange for disarmament.
Read moreSouth Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in a private briefing Tuesday that nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea will likely resume within two to three weeks, according to one of the lawmakers who attended the session.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired John Bolton, his third national security adviser, after months of disagreement over the direction of foreign policy.
Read moreAccusing them of helping North Korea’s illegal ship-to-ship transfers to circumvent U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang petroleum, the United States announced penalties Friday against multiple firms and individuals in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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North Korea’s foreign minister on Friday called U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a “poisonous plant of American diplomacy” and vowed to “shutter the absurd dream” that sanctions will force a change in Pyongyang.
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North Korea on Friday bluntly criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in for continuing to hold military exercises with the United States and for his rosy comments on inter-Korean diplomacy, and said Pyongyang has no plans to talk with Seoul.
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United Nations experts say they are investigating at least 35 instances in 17 countries of North Koreans using cyberattacks to raise money illegally for weapons of mass destruction programs — and they are calling for sanctions against ships providing gasoline and diesel to the country.
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President Trump says North Korea’s Kim Jong-un wants to meet again to “start negotiations” after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end, and that Kim apologized for the flurry of recent short-range missile tests that has rattled U.S. allies in the region.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld a federal judge’s order imposing $50,000-per-day fines on three Chinese banks that refused to turn over records the U.S. government subpoenaed as part of an investigation into how North Korea funds its nuclear weapons program.
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