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Xi thanks North's Kim for 'fruitful' summit: KCNA

Chinese President Xi Jinping praised his talks with Kim Jong-un as "fruitful" and vowed closer ties after his first North Korea visit in nearly seven years.

2026.6.10

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, accompanied from left Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, stands for a group photo during the Indo-Pacific Quad meeting at the State Department in Washington on July 1. [AP/YONHAP]

North Korea bristles at Quad statement that demands Pyongyang's denuclearization

North Korea lashed out at a recent statement by the United States, Australia, Japan and India that demands the North's complete denuclearization, accusing the Quad security grouping of committing a "coercive" act to change Pyongyang's stance.

2025.7.4

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In this photo released on Tuesday by the Korean Workers' Party's official Rodong Sinmun, North Korean foreign minister Choe Son-hui, center, shakes hands with Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora at Pyongyang International Airport on Monday. [NEWS1]

North Korean foreign minister arrives in Russia

Russian state media on Tuesday reported that North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Sun-hui arrived in the eastern city of Vladivostok.

2024.10.29

In this photograph released by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, speaks to military officials during an inspection of an unspecified weapons plant that took place the previous day. [YONHAP]

North's Kim calls for 'epochal change' in war preparations during arms factory visit

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a factory that produces new missile launchers as he called for an “epochal change” in the regime’s war preparations, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday.

2024.5.15

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region of the Russian Far East on Sept. 13, 2023. [AP/YONHAP]

North's Kim congratulates Putin on 79th WWII anniversary

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate Moscow on the 79th anniversary of its victory in World War II, Pyongyang’s state-controlled media reported on Thursday.

2024.5.9

In this footage broadcast by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central Television on Tuesday, four short-range ballistic missiles are fired from super-large multiple rocket launchers during a tactical drill held the previous day to simulate a nuclear counterattack by the North. [YONHAP]

North threatens retaliation against U.S. plans for new sanctions monitoring

North Korea said Thursday it could mount a “powerful” response to U.S. efforts to create a new mechanism to monitor and enforce sanctions against the North.

2024.4.25

In this footage released by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central Television on Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a tank during a visit to the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards' 105th Tank Division and the First Tank Armored Infantry Regiment the previous day. [YONHAP]

Japan's prime minister asks to meet Kim Jong-un, says sister

In a report carried by Pyongyang’s state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim Yo-jong said that Kishida used an unspecified channel to “convey his intention to personally meet” the North Korean leader “as soon as possible.”

2024.3.25

In this photo released by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Tuesday, six missiles are fired from multiple launch rocket systems during a drill that took place at an unspecified location the previous day. [YONHAP]

North's Kim threatens to destroy Seoul during multiple rocket launch drill

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on his regime's military to be prepared to destroy Seoul as he oversaw a drill involving multiple rocket launchers, according to Pyongyang's state media on Tuesday.

2024.3.19

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un drives one of the new battle tanks unveiled by Pyongyang's state media in this photo released on Thursday by the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party. [NEWS1]

North's Kim calls his new tanks 'most powerful in the world'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un touted his military’s new line of battle tanks in a Thursday state media report covering the regime’s ongoing training drills.

2024.3.14

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin are seated in Putin's presidential Aurus Senat limousine at Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on Sept. 13, 2023, in an image from footage of the North’s state-run Korean Central Television on Sept. 20. [YONHAP]

Putin gifts Kim Jong-un Russian car to drive home ‘special’ ties

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received a Russian-made car from Russian President Vladimir Putin as a gift demonstrating the "special" close ties between the two leaders, state media reported Tuesday.

2024.2.20