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Kim Won Jin via Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui left Pyongyang on Monday night for an official visit to Russia, North Korean state-controlled media reported, as the U.S. and NATO again denounced growing military cooperation between the two neighbors. The Korean Central News Agency said Choe and her entourage departed […]

Omar Havana/Getty Images (LONDON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed Wednesday the U.S. has evidence that North Korean troops are in Russia. “What exactly they’re doing” remains to be seen, Austin told journalists while in Rome, Italy. “These are things that we need to sort out.” Ukraine and South Korea have warned that North Korean […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea’s military again tested an in-development strategic cruise missile, launching it from a submarine on Sunday, state media said. The secretive country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, supervised the test along with other military officials, the official Korean Central News Agency said on Monday. The test was part of his […]

People sit near a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Dec. 18, 2023. — Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile, testing a warhead that may be capable of striking anywhere […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea launched a possible ballistic missile on Wednesday, Japan’s Ministry of Defense said in a tweet. The missile launch comes as North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia for a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A short while after the initial news broke, South Korea’s […]

belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has arrived at the Vostochny Cosmodrome for his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin greeted him in front of the building. The two shook hands and walked inside. “I’m very glad to see you,” Putin said upon greeting Kim, according to RIA News, […]

Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States has “information” that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expects to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia over arms negotiations discussions, a White House spokesperson said. National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson did not confirm a New York Times report published on […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korea said a second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit failed early Thursday, but the reclusive country vowed to launch another in the coming months. The Malligyeong-1 reconnaissance satellite was mounted on a new type of carrier rocket called the Chollima-1 and launched from a station in North […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew 621 miles toward Japan before falling in the East Sea, neighboring Japan and South Korea said Wednesday. The launch amounted to a “serious provocation that undermines the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula as well as the international community,” […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea acknowledged on Wednesday its failure to launch a military spy satellite, an attempt that U.S. officials called a “brazen violation” of U.N. resolutions. After admitting the failure in an unusually short time, North Korea’s state news agency reported that a second launch attempt will be made as […]