Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano straddling the border of North Korea and China, is the highest peak on the Korean peninsula and lies at the heart of North Korea’s foundation myth.

North Korea marked Kim Il Sung's birthday on Tuesday, praised his legacy, and stressed loyalty to his grandson, current ...

“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday (April 4, 2025) visited the military training base of the special operation units of the Korean People’s Army,” state media reported on Saturday ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has test-fired a newly developed sniper rifle, state media said Saturday, as he inspected special forces whose training he said bolstered “actual war capability ...

North Korean special operations units are among the thousands of troops that Pyongyang has deployed to Russia to fight in the Ukraine war, South Korea has said. Analysts say North Korea could ...

The rise and fall of Yoon Suk Yeol exposed a vulnerability in South Korean democracy, but also a resilience. Its people were always ready to fight for it. Demonstrators in Seoul last month calling ...

Many Yoon critics see something strikingly different: a leader increasingly in the sway of conspiracy theories that portray him as a victim of a North Korea-sympathizing opposition. Instead ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yoon Suk Yeol’s political ... to build a stronger trilateral security partnership to cope with North Korea’s advancing nuclear program. In April 2023, Yoon charmed ...

The country faces economic stress due to the Trump administration’s new tariffs, rising tension with North Korea and a sharp partisan divide among the public.

Many Yoon critics see something strikingly different: a leader increasingly in the sway of conspiracy theories that portray him as a victim of a North Korea-sympathizing opposition. Instead ...