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North Korea

The leader of the world's most isolated country Kim Jong Un has flouted international sanctions to develop North Korea's weapons program -- viewed as a direct threat to neighboring South Korea and Japan. Kim, a dictator who inherited power from his father in 2011, has also pledged to strengthen the country's nuclear arsenal, despite signals earlier in his reign he would support denuclearization. View the latest North Korea news and videos.

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  • Chinese leader Xi Jinping (L) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrive for a reception in the Great Hall of People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on September 3, 2025.
    Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images
    Kim has long sought recognition as a nuclear power. Xi may have just given it to him
  • In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, watches a test of a new rocket engine at an undisclosed location, North Korea, Sep 8, 2025.
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    Emboldened Kim Jong Un oversees test of powerful new North Korean rocket engine days after China visit
  • President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday.
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    Trump quietly preparing to travel next month to South Korea, where he could sit down with China’s leader
  • LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 9, 2025: With the skies clear on a warm February afternoon, plane spotters get a close up view of planes on their final approach to landing at LAX on a grassy knoll at Airport Landing View Point on February 9, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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    Visiting the US is about to get more expensive for foreign travelers
  • In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin walks with China's President Xi Jinping and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3.
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    Xi Jinping asks the world to choose ‘war or peace.’ Which direction is China headed?
  • North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019.
    Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
    New York Times: Unsuccessful 2019 Navy SEAL mission left unarmed North Koreans dead
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  • Kim Jong Un heads to Beijing in famous armored train used by generations of North Korean leaders
  • Hotels, beaches and water parks, but where are the tourists? Inside North Korea’s vast — and nearly empty — new resort
  • Leaders of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran gather in Beijing for huge military parade in challenge to the West
  • North Korea releases propaganda video praising its soldiers who fought for Russia
  • North Korea leader Kim promises ‘beautiful life’ for families of ‘martyrs’ killed in Russia
  • Kim and Putin top Xi’s guest list for China’s huge military parade in defiant show of unity
  • Trump tells South Korean president he wants to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
  • Kim Jong Un says his ‘heart aches’ over North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia, in rare admission of losses
  • North Korea has a secret missile base that poses a ‘potential nuclear threat’ to the US, new report says
  • North Korea is where this 95-year-old wants to die. South Korea won’t let him go

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  • WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 25: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) meets with President of South Korea Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office at the White House on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. The two leaders discussed defense and trade issues. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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    Video A 95-year-old North Korean prisoner of war wants to go back home to die but South Korea won’t let him 2:36

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  • From left: Russia's President Vladimir Putin, China's President Xi Jinping and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un arrive for a reception in the Great Hall of the People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on September 3, 2025.
    Jade Gao/AFP/Getty Images
    Experts see fissures despite Xi, Putin and Kim’s show of unity
  • Trump is furious at China, but he’s making US foes great again
  • FBI arrests one man, searches laptops in 16 states in crackdown on North Korean tech-worker scheme
  • Trump wants a ‘Golden Dome’ capable of defending the entire US: ‘Strategically, it doesn’t make any sense’
  • North Korean hackers steal record $1.5 billion in single crypto hack, security firm says

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  • This picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows Hwasong, the new high-rise neighborhood being constructed in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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    North Korea unveils new 10,000-home showpiece residential district
  • North Korea breaks ground on 10,000-home residential project in major housing drive
  • This woman left North Korea 70 years ago. Now virtual reality has helped her return
  • Video This woman left North Korea 70 years ago. Now virtual reality has helped her return 2:40
  • Remember when Dennis Rodman put on a wedding dress and claimed to marry himself?

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