Inter-Korean relations have improved markedly since the historic first summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a year ago, with cross-border exchanges spiking following a period of frozen ties and almost no contact. The two Koreas, however, appear to be

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said peace and security on the Korean Peninsula will entirely depend on Washington's future attitude during his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media said Friday. In the summit held in Russia's Far East city of Vladivostok on Thursday

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is set to hold his first summit with President Vladimir Putin in Russia's Far East city of Vladivostok on April 25, 2019, with a peaceful resolution of Pyongyang's nuclear quandary expected to top the agenda.The much anticipated summit will be a key test of Ki

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un departed for Russia by train on April 24, 2019 for his first summit with President Vladimir Putin, state media reported.Kim's special train left for Russia earlier in the day, the Korean Central News Agency said. It did not specify from where it departed and where

North Korea called Thursday for replacing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with a "more careful and mature" negotiator, accusing the top American diplomat of failing to understand Pyongyang's position and causing the denuclearization talks to become "entangled." A senior North Korean fore

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has supervised a test-firing of a new tactical guided weapon, calling its development an "event of very weighty significance" in beefing up its military power, state media reported on April 18, 2019.The Korean Central News Agency said the test happened on April 17,

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made a surprise visit to an air force unit and reviewed a flight exercise, the official news agency reported on April 17, 2019, in his first public inspection of military activities in five months.During the visit to the Unit 1017 of the Air and Anti-aircraft Forc

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been re-elected as chairman of the State Affairs Commission, the communist state's highest decision-making body, in a key parliamentary meeting, state media reported Friday. The North's Premier Pak Pong-ju has also been replaced with Kim Jae-ryong, a senio

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called strongly for "self-reliance," saying the communist nation should deal a "serious blow" to the belief that Pyongyang will give in to sanctions, according to state media. Kim made the remark during a plenary plenary session of the Central Committee of the

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called the current situation "tense" and urged politburo officials to follow through on the party's strategic line of economic development with a spirit of "self-reliance," state media reported on April. 10, 2019.The remark, made on April. 9, 2019 at an enlarg

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a northern county known to be the birthplace of his late father, state media reported on Apr. 4, 2019, amid speculation that he could soon announce his next steps after the breakdown of his February summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.Kim inspected Samjiyo

North Korea on Sunday released its first official statement on the break-in at its embassy in Spain last month by an anti-Pyongyang group, calling it a "grave terrorist attack." A spokesperson of North Korea's foreign ministry told the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang's officia

An inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea is operating normally, with officials of the two sides regularly meeting twice a day, after Pyongyang sent staff members back to the office earlier this week following a brief pullout, an official said Thursday.Last Friday, the North abruptly pulled its

U.S. President Donald Trump was open to easing sanctions on North Korea at last month's summit with Kim Jong-un, but was thwarted by his top aides, according to a senior Pyongyang official. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui made the remarks at a press conference in the North Korean capital on M

The U.N. Security Council has granted a sanctions exemption to allow a humanitarian project meant to improve children's health and nutrition in North Korea to move forward, according to the U.N. website. The exemption, granted on March 14, paves the way for an aid organization, Mennonite Central

Dozens of South Korean officials headed to an inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea on Monday, the unification ministry said, despite Pyongyang's abrupt pullout of its staff from the office last week. Around 40 South Korean officials crossed the western land border on their way to the liais

North Korean officials withdrew from an inter-Korean liaison office in the country's border city of Kaesong on Friday, the unification ministry said, as the peace and denuclearization process reached a deadlock following last month's no-deal summit between the North and the United States. Th

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said on Mar. 21, 2019 inter-Korean economic cooperation should be pursued in a way that does not hamper international sanctions.Lee also expressed hope that cross-border economic exchanges could induce North Korea to give up its nuclear program. "Under the

The U.S. intelligence chief is in South Korea, a government source said on Mar. 20, 2019, on a visit seen as aimed at sharing information and assessment of North Korea following the breakdown of last month's summit between the two countries.Earlier, a local newspaper reported that U.S. Director

For Kim Na-yeon, a 26-year-old college student, North Korea's nuclear weapons program is a timeworn issue that has dragged on for as long as she has been alive, and that she has little interest in.That's why, when the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader