Dr Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Centre for Korean Peninsula ... Ms Ko and Mr Ri were closely connected to Mr Kim Jong Il and a young Kim Jong Un before they decided to flee North Korea ...

The two soldiers thought they would be fighting South Korean troops and were told to kill themselves rather than be captured.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with senior North Korean official Ri Hi Yong in Moscow and ... a dozen European leaders on Sunday to “drive forward” action on Ukraine and ...

North Korea unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a ...

What about their parents? In North Korea, most families have only one or two children, meaning nearly all of them were only sons. Asked about his future, Ri said that he originally wanted to go to ...

The US energy department put South Korea on a watchlist because visitors to its laboratories mishandled sensitive information ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko is visiting North Korea, North Korean state media KCNA said on Saturday.

SEOUL, Feb. 19 (UPI) --South Korea will offer "necessary protection and support" to North Korean prisoners of war captured in Ukraine who want to come to the South, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said ...

North Korea condemned combined South Korea-US military exercises that began on Monday as a “dangerous provocative act”, citing the risk of an accidental shooting sparking a physical confrontation.

South Korea has said it will grant asylum to North Korean soldiers captured by ... “I will apply for refugee status,” Ri was quoted as saying by the paper. “I am thinking of going to South ...

North Korea on Monday condemned joint US-South Korean military drills as a "provocative act", warning of the danger of sparking war with "an accidental single shot," days after Seoul's air force ...