1940 -- The Japanese colonial regime orders all Koreans to adopt Japanese names. 1951 -- As the indiscriminate killings continue for a third day, 500 more villagers are shot and killed in Geochang, a ...

Jon, a key figure in North Korea’s financial network and former director of Office 39 — an agency managing the ruling family’s slush funds — introduced Ryu to Kim. Ryu recalled that Kim’s husband was ...

Kim’s emphasis on Chongryon is distinct from that of his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il. In the early years of that ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated US security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to bolster his nuclear weapons program further ...

SEOUL--Where is Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean leader’s influential sister? That is a question many who watch the cloistered, nuclear-armed country are wondering after she failed to appear in ...

Kim's congratulatory message to Lukashenko came more than two weeks after his sister, Kim Yo-jong, publicly dismissed his Jan. 17 remarks — published by the Belarusian presidential office ...

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticised trilateral military cooperation among the United States, Japan and South Korea for raising tensions in the region and vowed countermeasures ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to further bolster ...

North Korea has begun celebrations for the anniversary of late former leader Kim Jong-il's birthday, a national holiday, by opening a commemorative photo exhibition, according to state media on ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech at a meeting held in December 2024 in Pyongyang. This image could not be independently verified. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech ...

Kim Jong-un has deployed a "zombie" army to the battlefield in Ukraine as North Korean soldiers reportedly hurl themselves into Ukrainian defences in "futile" waves. The premier of the Democratic ...

But weeks after Pyongyang's troops vanished from combat, following what Ukraine has described as heavy casualties, there are questions over what North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could do next.