These exports directly support the North Korean regime, funding both the lavish lifestyles of party elites and the nuclear-missile programme of Kim Jong Un, the hermit kingdom’s autocratic leader.

North Korea warned Japan against deploying long-range missiles in the Kyushu region in March 2026, saying such attack capability will "bring about constant escalation of tension" in Northeast Asia, ...

China's Coast Guard homed in on a South Korean team investigating the 160-foot tall steel structure constructed in contested ...

The U.S. Air Force 82nd Reconnaissance Squadron has been conducting missions since its arrival at Kadena Air Base in 1968.

The U.S. government’s move to put South Korea — a nonnuclear ally — in the same company as countries like China or North ...

State-run media Korean Central News Agency said on Sunday that Washington's recent actions cement its place as a "hostile and ...

Newsweek 's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region. As of March 14, the locations of 12 ...

The annual drills often rile nuclear-armed North Korea, which views them as provocations. In a statement in state-run media on Friday, North Korean authorities condemned the exercises for ...

Beijing (AFP) – North Korea has halted international trips to a city near its border with China, travel agencies said on Wednesday, abruptly reversing Pyongyang's recent decision to reopen its ...

They come from large speakers positioned on North Korea's side of the demilitarised zone, just under two kilometres away. "It shifts between sounds like car brakes, tearing noises, and metal ...

And the soap-opera aspects of the crisis obscure an important reality: South Korea’s foreign policy is about to change dramatically, with major implications for the U.S., China, North Korea ...

along with the odd North Korea enthusiast. Last Thursday the tourists, from the UK, France, Germany and Australia, drove over the border from China into the remote area of Rason for a four-night trip.