This investment is in response to escalating tensions with North Korea and growing concerns over China’s assertiveness.

North Korea, June 15, 2021. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) remains one of the most repressive countries in the world. Ruled by the authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un, the ...

OPINION: In 2021, at the eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party, Kim Jong-un announced to the world that North Korea would have: An intercontinental ballistic missile. Submarines capable of ...

Outside experts estimate that North Korea has produced enough fissile material for between 20 to 60 warheads. A 2021 U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report says that North Korea ...

But in August 2021, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that North Korea had again started producing fissile material at Yongbyon. By mid-2022, satellite imagery showed that ...

showed 68 tests in 2022—10 times more than in 2021. The launches have been a way for North Korea to show off its varied warhead carriers—including low-altitude cruise missiles which can be ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea unveiled for the first time ... vowed to introduce during a major political ...

said he had worked for North Korea’s military in Russia for about seven years up until 2021 on construction projects to earn foreign currency for the regime. North Korea’s deployment to ...

Kim Jong Un was reportedly enraged by the "sheer carelessness" leading to the botched launch of the regime's second destroyer ...