Hyunseung Lee and his family defected from North Korea in 2014 after a series of violent executions by North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un.

accusing the opposition-controlled parliament of paralyzing the government and sympathizing with communist North Korea, with whom South Korea technically remains at war. The martial law order ...

Beijing has yet to announce the closing ceremony for its "Year of Friendship" with Pyongyang, a possible signal of ...

North Korean President Kim Jong Un on Monday declared a "new high" in relations between North Korea and Russia and hoped for ...

During a five-day plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, Kim called the U.S. “the most reactionary state that regards ...

Sweden joined NATO and hasn’t ruled out hosting nuclear weapons. But this country on the East-West frontier has also ...

Ukrainian special forces have released several excerpts from a purported diary it said was found on a North Korean soldier ...

(241221) -- DAMASCUS, Dec. 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Qatari flag is seen hoisted at the Qatari embassy in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 21 ...

India’s reopening of its embassy in North Korea marks a strategic recalibration of New Delhi’s foreign policy, analysts say, aimed at addressing national security concerns linked to missile ...

On Thursday, Lee Sung-kwon, a South Korean MP who had been briefed by his country’s intelligence services, claimed that at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed in total, with a further ...

On Thursday, Lee Sung-kwon, a South Korean MP who had been briefed by his country’s intelligence services, claimed that at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed in total, with a ...

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