SEOUL: Born in 1984 in northeastern Pyongyang, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was secretly anointed as the future heir to his father, Kim Jong-il, at the age of 8, according to the statements of ...

North Korea has criticized the United States and Asian neighbors for pursuing the “absurd” goal of denuclearizing the North ...

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Switzerland's top envoy to North Korea has begun his duties after submitting his credentials to Choe Ryong-hae, chairman of the North's parliamentary standing committee, ...

Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Center for Korean Peninsula Strategy at the Sejong Institute, has published a book, “The Kim Jong-un We Don’t Know,” to shed light on the untold story of North ...

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's defense minister has reaffirmed "invincible" friendship with Russia during a banquet ...

Park Chan-wook’s 2000 film Joint Security Area told a controversial story of friendship between North and South Korean ...

The exercise marks the countries' first joint air force drill since President Donald Trump began his second term.

Chairman Kim Myung-soo shared assessment of the security on the Korean Peninsula and discussed ways to enhance military cooperation with the new ...

The real-life JSA has since been a site of both reconciliation and tragedy. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with then-South Korean president Moon Jae-in there in 2018. The following year, Kim also ...

The ideological fragility of the North Korean regime has been exposed as two of its soldiers, captured by Ukrainian forces in ...

Seoul's announcement came after a North Korean POW reportedly expressed his desire to settle in South Korea, raising ...