The following are key developments regarding North Korea this week. ---------- Feb. 9 -- Thousands of N.K. laborers sent to work in Russia in 2024: S. Korea's spy agency N. Korea's Kim says U.S.

North Korea closed its borders five years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and they have remained shut ever since.

North Korea may be poised to move into production its intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US, the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of Russia's next military plans and how their relations with North Korea are ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to further bolster his nuclear weapons program ...

It is time to examine not only the effects and effectiveness of North Korean troops in combat, but the wider implications for ...

suggesting a high level of training in North Korea. However, Russia appears to be using the troops as foot soldiers, using them to carry out mass ground assaults despite major losses in Kursk.

Last week, Western officials told the BBC that, out of some 11,000 troops sent from North Korea to fight for Russia, 1,000 had been killed in just three months. North Korea and Russia have not ...

South Korea. Speaking to reporters while signing a flurry of executive orders, Mr Trump reiterated his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying: “He is a nuclear power.

North Korea deployed 12,000 soldiers to its ally Russia in late October to help Moscow expel Kyiv’s troops from the Kursk border region after Ukraine’s surprise incursion in August.

In a move that could redefine decades of US foreign policy, President Donald Trump casually referred to North Korea as a “nuclear power” during an impromptu Oval Office exchange with reporters ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” exemplifies a focus on symbolic gestures rather than addressing significant global challenges.