Kim Jong Un made the comments at the groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial for North Korean soldiers who fought for Russia in its war with Ukraine, state media said.

Trump's Asia summit tour includes meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other regional leaders as trade tensions with Beijing escalate.

North Korea performed its first ballistic missile tests in five months Wednesday, days before U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders are expected to meet in South Korea. South Korea's military detected multiple suspected short-range ballistic missiles launched from an area south of Pyongyang,

When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the directors at Moscow's Museum of Victory.

The sanctioning of the DPRK IT worker network and recovery of Bybit funds are signs of the growing pushback, experts told Decrypt.

During his first term, Trump met Kim on three occasions in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade North Korea to dismantle its nuclear arsenal in exchange for a partial lifting of sanctions. In a speech last month, Kim said there was no reason not to reenter talks with the U.S.—as long as Washington abandons denuclearization as a precondition.

North Korea said Thursday that its latest missile tests involved a new hypersonic system aimed at strengthening its nuclear war deterrent, as leader Kim Jong Un continues to build up weapons designed

North Korea test-fired two hypersonic missiles on Wednesday, prompting protests from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, which described the tests as unlawful and destabilizing. State media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Thursday reported North Korea’s Missile Administration launched two hypersonic missiles from Ryokpho District,

Choe Son-hui, a Politburo member of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party and the country’s foreign minister, will visit Russia and Belarus, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday.

A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border. The South Korean military says it took the custody of the soldier who crossed the central portion of the land border on Sunday.