Nearly 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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North Korea continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea Tuesday while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing military exercises that the North says could derail nuclear diplomacy.
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North Korea on Tuesday said U.S.-South Korean war games are a “flagrant violation” of efforts to reach peace on the Korean peninsula and reflect a lack of “political will” to improve relations.
Read moreNorth Korea carried out its third missile test in eight days Friday, according to the South’s military, but U.S. President Donald Trump said he had “no problem” with the spate of launches by Pyongyang.
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North Korea said Thursday that Kim Jong-un supervised the first test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could enhance its ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
Read moreNorth Korea launched “multiple unidentified projectiles” on Wednesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, days after firing two missiles as a warning over Seoul’s plan for military drills with the United States.
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Americans are far less concerned about two potential global threats that a majority of the country viewed as prominent existential risks just two years ago – North Korea and the Islamic State Group – but they are afraid of one thing: cyberattacks.
Read moreNorth Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea Thursday, South Korea’s military said, the first weapons launches in more than two months and an apparent pressuring tactic aimed at Washington as North Korean and U.S. officials struggle to restart nuclear negotiations.
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