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.

In terms of official statements, North Korea has issued multiple threats of nuclear preemption in the past. For example, in 2016, a spokesperson for the Korean People’s Army General Staff Department ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

North Korea has so far performed six underground nuclear test explosions to manufacture warheads that it can place on missiles. Outside estimates of the number of North Korean nuclear warheads ...

North Korea said it carried out the latest test of its shadowy unmanned, underwater drone capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, thought to be based on a Russian design, a few days after U.S ...

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 flurry of missile launches has raised expectations that it could soon test a nuclear device for the first time since 2017. SEOUL, Oct 11 (Reuters) - North Korea's recent ...

The completed test also came on the same day that nuclear envoys for the United States, South Korea and Japan sat down together in Seoul to discuss the ever-increasing threat of North Korea’s ...