North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Moscow his “unconditional support” on the war in Ukraine, according to state media reports. In talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in North Korea, Kim said that Pyongyang stood by “all the measures taken by the Russian leadership” to tackle the “root cause of the Ukrainian crisis”. […]
North Korea said Sunday it had simulated a nuclear missile attack to warn the United States of “nuclear war danger.”
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea decided to take important, practical war deterrence measures at a meeting of the ruling party’s military commission presided over by leader Kim Jong Un, state news agency KCNA said on Sunday.
South Korea has sanctioned eight people and seven companies suspected of engaging in illicit activities to finance North Korea’s growing nuclear weapons and missile programmes.
North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast in what would be the country’s seventh missile test this month.
North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile early on Wednesday, the first such test by Pyongyang of the new year, drawing condemnation from Japan and calls for talks from South Korea.
North Korea on Tuesday launched at least one ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, the South Korean and Japanese militaries confirmed.
Missiles fired by North Korea were tests of a new “railway-borne missile system”, according to the state news agency KCNA.
North Korea is facing one of the worst economic crises in its 73-year history, amid shortages of food and medicines and warnings of rising unemployment and homelessness.
Addressing a party conference last Thursday, Kim said that citizens should prepare for hard times ahead. He claimed that the country faced its “worst ever” situation on account of the natural disasters that devastated farmland last summer, the Covid pandemic and US-led sanctions. The North Korean strongman urged officials to “wage another, more difficult ‘Arduous March’ in […]
