South Korea's defense ministry said Monday that its military is closely watching whether the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) would possibly test-launch its long-range missile.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) declared on Sunday it could test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at any time from any location set by leader Kim Jong Un, saying a hostile U.S. policy was to blame for its arms development.
The United States said on Thursday DPRK had demonstrated a "qualitative" improvement in its nuclear and missile capabilities after an unprecedented level of tests last year, showing the needed to sustain pressure on Pyongyang to bring it back to disarmament negotiations.
DPRK’s submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is capable of reaching any target in South Korea if it is mounted with a one-tonne nuclear warhead, according to foreign missile experts.
Donald Trump has dismissed DPRK's claim to be developing missiles capable of striking America.
Beijing's efforts and contributions to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are widely acknowledged by the international community, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday after US president-elect Donald Trump said China was not helping with the issue.
A potential crisis involving DPRK ranked atop the list of international concerns for the United States in the New Year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations survey.
Pyongyang has recently brought back around 300 DPRK workers employed in Oman, a U.S.-based radio report said Thursday amid international concerns over the North's inhuman treatment of its workers overseas.
DPRK leader Kim Jong-un is determined to complete development of nuclear weapons by the end of 2017 and has no plans to give up the country's nukes even if he is offered huge sums of money, a high-profile DPRK diplomat who recently defected to South Korea said Tuesday.
A rising South Korean presidential hopeful in the opposition bloc raised doubts about the capability of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and the possibly hidden aim behind the agreed-upon deployment of the U.S. missile defense system in South Korean soil.
Three ships of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) drifting along in waters off South Korea's east coast have recently been rescued by South Korean coast guard, Seoul's unification ministry said Thursday.
Top nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States and Japan vowed Tuesday to closely cooperate in carrying out the latest sanctions imposed on DPRK following its September nuclear test.
China on Saturday said it will suspend coal imports from North Korea until the end of this year to implement fresh UN Security Council sanctions adopted on Nov. 30.
South Korea accused DPRK this week of being behind the first-ever infiltration of the intranet of its cyberwarfare command in August, noting that the Internet Protocol address linked to the attack was traced to a location in China which was previously used by DPRK hackers.
The United States and its partners should intensify sanctions and pressure on DPRK to force the communist regime to come back to the denuclearization negotiating table, the U.S. pointman on Pyongyang said Monday.
DPRK's mission to the United Nations rejected the latest U.N. sanctions on the communist nation as "discriminatory" and "unfair," repeating the country's long-running claims that its nuclear program is for self-defense.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the adoption of a new resolution in response to the Sept. 9 nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and asked all UN member states to "make every effort" to ensure the full implementation of the new resolution.
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