North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has renewed his call for a “limitless” expansion of his military nuclear program to counter what he characterizes as U.S.-led threats.

North Korea says it has tested exploding drones designed to hit targets and leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating their mass production.

South Korea’s military says North Korea has disrupted GPS signals from border areas for a second-straight day on Saturday.

South Korea's military says North Korea has fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea as the country continues its weapons demonstrations ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

Commercial satellite images reveal that North Korea freshly carved at least two large trenches across its heavily armed border with South Korea after it blew up northern sections of unused road and rail routes that once linked the rivals earlier this month.

North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in almost a year, demonstrating an improved potential ability to launch long-range nuclear attacks on the mainland U.S. The launch was likely meant to meant grab American attention days ahead of the U.S. election and respond to condemnation over the North’s reported troop dispatch to Russia to support its war against Ukraine.

The thousands of young soldiers North Korea has sent to Russia, reportedly to help fight against Ukraine, include many elite special forces, but that hasn’t stopped speculation they’ll be slaughtered because they have no combat experience, no familiarity with the terrain and will likely be dropped onto the most ferocious Russian-Ukraine battlefields.

French newspaper Le Monde reported that highly confidential movements of some of the world’s most powerful leaders, including Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, could easily be tracked online through a fitness app used by their bodyguards.

North Korea says it found the remains of a South Korean drone during a search in capital Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reminded his troops to treat South Korea as a hostile foreign enemy and insisted that the North wouldn’t hesitate to attack its rival if the South infringes upon its sovereignty, state media said Friday.

North Korea has revised its constitution to define South Korea as “a hostile state” for the first time.

South Korea says North Korea blew up the northern parts of inter-Korean road and rail links no longer in use.

South Korea has detected signs North Korea is preparing to destroy parts of inter-Korean roads no longer in use, as tensions soar between them over North Korea’s claim that South Korea flew drones over its territory.

North Korea says it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to designate South Korea its principal enemy and codify national borders.

The leaders of North Korea and China have marked the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations by exchanging messages that expressed hopes for stronger ties, as outsiders raised questions about their relationship.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says North Korea’s recent disclosure of a nuclear facility was likely an attempt to grab U.S. attention ahead of the presidential election.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to boost the country’s nuclear war capability and take other steps to protest the recent arrival of a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised successful tests of two types of missiles as he ordered officials to bolster up his country’s military capabilities to repel U.S.-led threats.

South Korea and Japan’s militaries say North Korea had test-fired multiple ballistic missiles.

In a significant show of defiance against the United States, North Korea on Friday provided a rare view into a secretive facility built to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs as leader Kim Jong Un called for a rapid expansion of his nuclear weapons program.

North Korea has offered a rare glimpse into a secretive facility to produce weapons-grade uranium as it says leader Kim Jong Un visited the area and called for stronger efforts to increase its number of nuclear weapons.

The Associated Press interviewed and photographed dozens of South Koreans for a detailed look at the nation’s stark division over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s headlong pursuit of nuclear-tipped missiles targeting the South and its major ally and protector, the United States.

There are two Koreas, North and South.

North Korea has fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to redouble efforts to make his nuclear force fully ready for combat with the United States and its allies.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a demonstration of new exploding drones designed to crash into targets and is pledging to spur the development of such weapons to boost his military’s war readiness.

U.S. and South Korean troops have begun a large-scale exercise aimed at strengthening their combined defense capabilities against nuclear-armed North Korea, which again is accusing the allies of practicing an invasion.

Ri Il Gyu, North Korea’s former No. 2 diplomat in Cuba, has resettled in South Korea.

South Korea's spy agency says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has regained weight and has obesity-related health problems, including high blood pressure and diabetes.

South Korea’s spy agency says a North Korea diplomat based in Cuba has defected to South Korea.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is vowing to respond to what she calls a fresh South Korean civilian leafleting campaign.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea’s recent front-line live-fire drills “suicidal hysteria” as she threatened unspecified military steps if further provoked.

North Korea says it tested a multiwarhead missile in the first known launch of a developmental weapon coveted by leader Kim Jong Un to overwhelm U.S. and South Korean missile defenses.

South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest a defense pact with North Korea, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement vowing mutual defense with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a state visit to Pyongyang.

A new mutual-defense pact signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un commits each country to come to the other’s aid if attacked.

The Demilitarized Zone between the two rival Koreas might be the most heavily armed place on earth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have signed a new partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country faces “aggression.”.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed the country’s expanding relationship with Russia as reports suggest that Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon visit the country for his third meeting with Kim.

South Korea has started blaring propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at border areas in retaliation for the North sending over trash-carrying balloons.

South Korea’s military says it’s detecting signs that North Korea is installing its own loudspeakers along their border, a day after the South blared anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts over its speakers for the first time in years.

South Korea has resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure over the last couple of weeks.

South Koreans are alert for possible new launches by North Korea of balloons carrying rubbish into the South, a day after Seoul activists flew their own balloons to scatter political leaflets in the North.

North Korea has fired a barrage of ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea, according to South Korea’s military, days after its failed spy satellite launch drew condemnation.

North Korea has flown hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea.

North Korea says its attempt to put another spy satellite into orbit has failed.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem claims in a new book to have met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during her time in Congress.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised salvo launches of the country’s “super-large” multiple rocket launchers that simulated a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media said Tuesday, adding to testing activities and threats that have raised tensions in the region.

A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely.

South Korea's military says North Korea test-fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward waters off its eastern coast, as it pushes to advance its weapons aimed at U.S. targets in the Pacific.

North Korea has shipped around 7,000 containers filled with munitions and other military equipment to Russia since last year to help support its war in Ukraine.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's new ride is a Russian luxury limousine gifted by President Vladimir Putin.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined troops training on a new model of tank and drove one himself, as his rivals South Korea and the U.S. wrapped up their annual military exercises, state media reported Thursday.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for greater war fighting capabilities against the United States and South Korea.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol lambasted North Korea Friday, for what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula.

North Korea’s recent escalation of threats and endless tests of weapons aimed toward South Korea haven't done much to upset the calm in Seoul.

South Korea’s military said North Korea has fired multiple cruise missiles into waters off its western coast, extending a provocative series of weapons tests in the face of deepening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan.

North Korea says it has conducted a test-firing of long-range cruise missiles with an aim to sharpen its counterattack and strategic strike capabilities.

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles into the sea off its western coast in its third round of tests of such weapons this month.

North Korea’s weekend test of new cruise missiles for submarine launches has added to its provocative start to 2024, as leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his growing nuclear arsenal and threatens nuclear conflict with Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.

South Korea’s military says that North Korea fired several cruise missiles that flew over waters near a major military shipyard on the country’s eastern coast, extending a streak in weapons tests that are worsening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan.

North Korea says it's hosting a Chinese government delegation led by Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, as it continues its efforts to strengthen ties with Beijing and Moscow.

Russia’s top diplomat is accusing the United States, South Korea and Japan of preparing for war with North Korea.

North Korea appears to have torn down a huge arch in its capital that symbolized reconciliation with South Korea, a week after leader Kim Jong Un dismissed decades of hopes for peaceful reunification with the war-divided peninsula’s south, according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

North Korea said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his willingness to visit the North at an unspecified “early date” as the countries continue to align in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States.

North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise by South Korea, the United States and Japan this week, as it continues to blame its rivals for raising tensions in the region.

South Korea is calling on the divided U.N. Security Council “to break the silence” over North Korea’s escalating missile tests and threats.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea “our principal enemy” and threatened to annihilate it if provoked.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un turns 40 on Monday with no announced public celebrations at home.

South Korea has accused North Korea of firing artillery shells near their tense sea boundary for a third straight day.

South Korea says North Korea has conducted a new round of artillery firing drills near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his military should “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea if provoked.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will launch three additional military spy satellites and produce more nuclear fissile materials.

The U.N. atomic agency and outside experts say North Korea may have started operating a light-water reactor at its main nuclear complex in a possible attempt to establish a new facility to produce bomb fuels.

North Korean state media is reporting that leader Kim Jong Un says his country has a policy of not hesitating to launch a nuclear strike on its rivals if provoked, as he praised troops involved in its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test.

The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan are calling for a stronger international push to suppress North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s birthrate.

South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the sea but the launch likely failed.

North Korea says it has put a military spy satellite into orbit on its third attempt.

South Korea’s military has warned North Korea not to go ahead with its planned spy satellite launch.

Russia’s foreign minister has proposed regular security talks with North Korea and China to deal with what he described as increasing U.S.-led regional military threats.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has thanked North Korea for its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine as he arrived in Pyongyang.

The White House says that North Korea has delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine.

South Korea’s new defense minister says he would push to suspend a 2018 military agreement with North Korea on reducing tensions between the rivals, insisting that it hampers the South’s surveillance activities along their heavily armed border when the North’s nuclear threats are increasing.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for an exponential increase in production of nuclear weapons and for his country to play a larger role in a coalition of nations confronting the United States in what he described as a “new Cold War.”.

North Korea is accusing the United States of making 2023 an “extremely dangerous year."

South Korea’s president sounded a warning to fellow world leaders about the recent communication and possible cooperation between North Korea and Russia.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has returned home from a trip to Russia where he deepened a “comradely fellowship and friendly ties” with President Vladimir Putin.

South Korea’s president says the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he plans to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on his way home from Russia at the end of a six-day trip that triggered global concerns about weapons transfer deals between the two countries locked in separate standoffs with the West.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers, hypersonic missiles and an advanced warship on a trip to Russia’s Far East that has sparked concerns about an arms alliance that could fuel President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted a meeting with his Belarusian ally, who referred to this week’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and suggested that Minsk could join Moscow’s efforts to revive an old alliance with Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russia’s most advanced fighter jet at an aircraft factory on his extended visit to the country.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in far eastern Russia where he is expected to tour a Russian aircraft plant that builds fighter jets.

The world is largely relying on North Korean and Russian media for information about the meeting between the nations' leaders Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin at a space facility in Russia's Far East.

Some analysts are questioning whether Russia would be willing to share secret weapons technologies with North Korea.

Russian authorities say a Ukrainian attack on a strategic shipyard in Crimea wounded 24 people, damaged two ships undergoing repairs and caused a fire at the facility.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in the far eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur where he was expected to visit a plant that builds fighter jets.

South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas.