A human rights group said Tuesday it has identified hundreds of spots where witnesses claim North Korea carried out public executions and extrajudicial state killings as part of an arbitrary and aggressive use of the death penalty that is meant to intimidate its citizens.
Read morePresident Trump said Monday he is not “personally” bothered by recent short-range missile tests that North Korea conducted this month, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on four-day state visit full of pageantry.
Read moreNorth Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a “war monger” and “human defect” after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Read moreNorth Korea says nuclear negotiations with the United States will never resume unless the Trump administration moves away from what the North describes as unilateral demands for disarmament.
Read moreNorth Korea called Joe Biden a “fool of low IQ” and an “imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being” after the Democratic presidential candidate called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a tyrant during a recent speech.
Read moreNorth Korea said Wednesday it is suffering its worst drought in nearly four decades amid reports of severe food shortages.
Read moreNorth Korea on Tuesday called the U.S. seizure of a North Korean cargo ship involved in banned coal exports a “robbery” and demanded that the vessel be returned immediately.
Read moreThe three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military has deployed to Syria and has been actively trying to sell abroad for years.
Read moreNorth Korea on Thursday fired at least one unidentified projectile from the country’s western area, South Korea’s military said, the North’s second weapons launch in the last five days and a warning that nuclear disarmament talks with Washington could be in danger.
Read moreNorth Korea appears to have tested a new short-range missile — and tested President Trump’s resolve to keep it from continuing to do more of the same.
Read moreNorth Korea fired several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast on Saturday, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a likely sign of Pyongyang’s growing frustration at stalled diplomatic talks with Washington meant to provide coveted sanctions relief in return for nuclear disarmament.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. did not pay $2 million to North Korea in 2017 to get American college student Otto Warmbier released from detention.
Read moreGerman automaker Daimler, which makes armored limousines used by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, says it has no idea where he got them and has no business dealings with the North.
Read moreNorth Korea insisted the U.S. agree to pay $2 million in medical costs in 2017 before it released detained American college student Otto Warmbier while he was in a coma, a former U.S. official said Thursday.
Read moreRussian President Vladimir Putin told Kim Jong-un he appreciates the North Korean leader’s efforts to improve relations between the rival Koreas and normalize ties with Washington as the two leaders on Thursday began their first summit.
Read moreSmiling and upbeat, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday stepped off his khaki-green armored train in far-eastern Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin that comes amid deadlocked diplomacy on his nuclear weapons program.
Read moreWhen North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for their first one-on-one meeting, he will have a long wish list and a strong desire to notch a win after the failure of his second summit with President Donald Trump.
Read moreNorth Korean state media says leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia and meet with President Vladimir Putin.
Read moreNorth Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it no longer wants Secretary of State Mike Pompeo involved in ongoing disarmament negotiations, after Pyongyang’s state media claimed he has been too reckless in his remarks about the talks.
Read moreNorth Korea said Thursday that it had test-fired a new type of “tactical guided weapon,” its first such test in nearly half a year, and a possible sign of its displeasure with deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States.
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