The US is monitoring North Korean missile activity
After US Defense Secretary Ash Carter mentioned the possible deployment of America's most advanced missile-defense system to South Korea, the State Department reported on Thursday that it was...
View ArticleSeoul: North Korea's latest missile launch appears to have failed
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's Defense Ministry says that a North Korean launch of a missile appears to have failed.The ministry on Friday did not immediately give any other details of the...
View ArticleA 'clear violation': The UN is slamming North Korea for its latest missile...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Friday condemned North Korea's failed ballistic missile launch, warning that it was a "clear violation" of U.N. resolutions and the...
View ArticleI was part of the first group of outsiders allowed to ride the entire North...
During my visit to North Korea, I was part of the first ever group of foreigners given access to all stations across both lines of the Pyongyang Metro.This may sound mundane, but the previously...
View ArticleA longtime Google employee took a trip to North Korea and captured these...
San Francisco-based photographer and longtime Google employee Omid Scheybani recently went on a 10-day trip through North Korea.He carried only his iPhone to snap the pics, explaining in an interview...
View ArticleThis is the only video you need to watch to know that Kim Jong Un really...
Recently released footage of a joint US and South Korean training exercise shows just how awesome a force these two countries can offer when partnered up.This footage represents just a few of the...
View ArticleSouth Korea says North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile
North Korea fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Saturday off its east coast, South Korea said, amid concerns that it might conduct a nuclear test or a missile...
View ArticleNorth Korea ready to halt nuke tests if US stops South Korean exercises
NEW YORK (AP) — North Korea's foreign minister said Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual...
View ArticleInvisible phones, unicorns, and a cure for AIDS — these are some of North...
North Korea is responsible for some of the world's most outlandish claims. These recent claims are some of the most interesting.Produced by Emmanuel OcbazghiFollow BI Video: On Twitter Join the...
View ArticleNorth Korea was seen preparing another ballistic missile test launch
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea appears to be preparing a test-launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday, after what the United States described...
View ArticleNorth Korea is reportedly getting ready for another missile test launch
North Korea appears to be preparing a test-launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday, after what the United States described as the "fiery,...
View ArticleSEOUL: North Korea is gearing up for a fifth nuclear test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president said Tuesday that North Korea has almost completed preparations for a fifth nuclear test, and the country has reportedly placed a new midrange missile...
View ArticleSOUTH KOREA: North Korea intermediate-range missile test fails again
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired what appeared to have been an intermediate range ballistic missile on Thursday but it crashed seconds after the test launch, South Korea's defense ministry said.A...
View ArticleNorth Korea sentences Korean-American to 10 years of hard labor for espionage
North Korea's Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labor for subversion, North Korean media reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against...
View ArticleNorth Korea has reportedly banned freedom of movement in and out of Pyongyang
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has started welcoming delegates from around the country to its first ruling party congress in 36 years, state media reported on Tuesday, as rival South Korea expressed...
View ArticleA US citizen imprisoned in North Korea had Dennis Rodman to thank for his...
Kenneth Bae, a US citizen who was held prisoner for more than two years in North Korea, has publicly thanked former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman for ranting about his case on CNN in 2014, saying...
View ArticleWhat it's like inside North Korea ahead of the country's first...
North Korea is getting ready to host its first Workers' Party congress since 1980, and a team from The Washington Post has gone inside the communist country to see how it's preparing for the big...
View ArticleNorth Korea is holding its highest political event for the first time in 3...
For Asia watchers, all eyes are on the North Korea Workers Party Congress convening in Pyongyang starting May 6. Curiosity abounds about what will be discussed, who will be promoted and dismissed, and...
View ArticleNorth Korea leader claims 'great success' with recent nuclear and rocket tests
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Friday that "unprecedented results have been accomplished" with the "great success" of its January test of a nuclear weapon and February rocket...
View ArticleNorth Korea is holding its first Party Congress in 36 years — here's why
In 1980, the last time North Korea's ruling Workers' Party gathered for a congress, current ruler Kim Jong-un hadn't yet been born, and the United States was far more worried about a nuclear strike by...
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