Kim Yo Jong spoke out a day after the allies started their 11-day Freedom Shield exercise involving thousands of troops, while Washington also wages an escalating war in the Middle East.

Posts claimed the North Korean leader said Israel made a "big mistake" following the supposed attack.

North Korea denounced U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran while stating it respects the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new supreme leader. A North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson said the U.

North Korea has shown leader Kim Jong Un and his teen daughter firing pistols at a munitions factory as he pushes to modernize the country's conventional forces.

By Mei Mei Chu, Ju-min Park and Claire Fu DANDONG/SEOUL/SINGAPORE, March 11 (Reuters) - When Kim Jong Un arrived by armored train in Beijing for a military parade in September, the pageantry signaled a thaw in one of the world's most important relationships after several years of frosty ties.

Kim Jong Un says North Korea can completely destroy South Korea if it feels threatened, and he refuses to engage with Seoul.

For the second time in a week, North Korea says it carried out a cruise missile test as the country's leader watched remotely.

Just a week after North Korea signaled openness to dialogue, the U.S. launched a military operation against Iran with a stated goal of regime change.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned six individuals and two companies accused of aiding North Korea in running a global scheme using remote IT workers to fund their weapons program.