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It also follows the meeting last September between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian tourists reportedly going on a ski trip to North Korea will be the first international travellers to visit the country since border closings in January 2020 amid the global pandemic lockdown.

North Korea's recent missile tests signal a strategic shift, raising global concerns. Could Pyongyang be hoping to use military threats to push its agenda as South Korea heads toward new elections?

Could North Korea be hoping to use military threats and actions to push its agenda as South Korea heads towards fresh elections?

Residents of two remote islands were evacuated as tensions escalated, with South Korea taking "corresponding" action to the "act of provocation".

An official on Yeonpyeong island says the evacuation was ordered for residents to move into bomb shelters on the island at the request of the South Korean military

More than 200 North Korea artillery shells fall north of border

Kim promises further military modernisation after conducting a record number of weapons tests in 2023.

North Korea has said it will launch three more military spy satellites, build military drones and boost its nuclear arsenal in 2024. This is in continuation of its military modernisation programme that saw a record number of weapons tests this year, Al Jazeera reports. Pyongyang put a spy satellite into orbit in November at its third attempt and this month, again launched its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is seen as having the range to deliver a nuclear warhead t...

After watching Monday’s launch of the Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile, Kim said the test showed how North Korea could respond if the United States were to make “a wrong decision against it,” according to the official Korean Central News Agency.