After a year in office, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s efforts to improve relations with arch-rival Pyongyang appear to have stalled. To break the impasse, Lee may have to take the big step of ...

North Korean children and women during a tractor ride in North Pyongan Province, DPRK on April 12, 2026. (Hyungwon Kang) While much of the world focuses on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East ...

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In this photo from North Korean state media, Kim Jong Un delivers an address at the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly, Mar. 23, 2026. Credit: KCNA South Korea’s outsized ability to ...

Watch the ceremony: twenty-one guns, two national anthems, state dinners, signed agreements, and crowds on cue. Chinese state media called President Xi Jinping’s June visit to Pyongyang “a routine ...

A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday over charges linked to military drones sent over Pyongyang to help create a pretext for his failed ...

The North Korean capital rolled out a citywide welcome as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a state visit. According to the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has returned to Pyongyang’s Kumsusan State Guest House, the highly secluded counterpart to Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guest House. Xi began a two-day state visit to North ...

Rarely a week passes without a new story about Russia’s shadow fleet. Tankers catch fire in the Mediterranean, are added to sanctions lists, or are boarded while passing through European waters. But ...

China’s President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have pledged to deepen their cooperation, according to state media, as Xi made a rare visit to Pyongyang. During a summit on Monday, Xi ...

When Air China One touched down at Pyongyang Sunan International Airport on 8 June, it signalled a profound shift in Northeast Asian geopolitics. The summit’s true significance emerges not from its ...

China will not swerve from its commitment to safeguarding common interests with North Korea or waver in its support for Kim Jong Un, President Xi Jinping told Pyongyang's leader on Monday, June 8 ...