Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a visit to North Korea, said Moscow respects and understands why Pyongyang is developing its nuclear program.

The Trump administration should embrace a North Korea strategy that aims to contain escalation, not keep a white-knuckled ...

North Korea's new legislation about nuclear weapons includes conditions under which Pyongyang would launch them. But only the nature of its anticipated seventh nuclear test will confirm whether the ...

Many people seem to have trouble accepting that North Korea really is building nuclear weapons. It seems so incongruous, this backward little peninsular nightmare as a nuclear power. But North ...

North Korea closed its nuclear test site in spectacular fashion Thursday, blasting the site in what one observer described as a "huge explosion." Within hours of the North's demolition of the site ...

New radar images show North Korea's Sept. 3 nuclear test was powerful enough to have changed the topography of the mountain above the tunnel where the test likely took place.

Chemical weapons in North Korea are managed by the Nuclear-Chemical Defense Bureau, which sits within the regime’s army and ...

North Korea is once again at the center of global concerns, with South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reporting that the isolated nation may carry out its seventh nuclear test after ...

North Korea is likely to stage major provocations, such as a nuclear test explosion and a long-range missile test, before the US election South Korea’s president says. View on euronews ...

North Korea tested dozens of missiles last week but it is uncertain when its seventh nuclear test will take place. Some experts say Kim Jong Un is biding his time.

During the test, the drone cruised underwater at a depth of 80 to 150 metres for over 59 hours and detonated a non-nuclear payload in waters off North Korea's east coast.

North Korea’s recent resumption of missile tests underscores its resolve to win recognition as a nuclear state and receive outside concessions.