SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised "heroic" North Korean troops who fought for Russia in the war against Ukraine, in a meeting with officers of the army's overseas operation, state media KCNA said on Thursday.

South Korea’s president said he will pursue a three-phase "denuclearization plan" to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear program, seeking to freeze Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs in the first stage.

The Kim regime’s heavy combat involvement could be a complication in peace talks over the war in Ukraine.

North Korea has a covert military base near the Chinese border that poses a “potential nuclear threat” to the United States mainland, according to new research

The state-run Korea Central News Agency reported Wednesday that Kim held a consultative meeting with the major director generals of the North Korean Foreign Ministry on Tuesday where she “conveyed the foreign policy plan of the head of state,” and ...

North Korea has a secret, previously unreported missile base near its northern border with China, which could pose a “potential nuclear threat” to much of East Asia and the United States, according to a new report released Wednesday.

Since talks collapsed between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, in 2019, North Korea’s reckless drive for long-range nuclear capabilities has fueled tensions on the Korean Peninsula to new heights.

Now 95 years old and living in South Korea, Ahn Hak-seop longs to return to North Korea so he can die there. There’s just one problem: no one is certain if North Korea will actually take him.

A Chinese national has been sentenced to eight years in prison for smuggling firearms and other military items to North Korea, the US justice department said. Shenghua Wen, 42, received around $2m (£1.5m) from North Korean officials to ship the items from California, according to a statement from the agency on Monday.