The uneasy truce between nuclear-armed North Korea and US-allied South Korea remains one of the most vexing security concerns ...

North Korea fired a shot across the stern of the outgoing Biden administration by launching a missile during Secretary of ...

North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which "will ...

North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the ...

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