Kim said the "security environment" around North Korea is "getting more serious day by day" and "requires us to make a radical and swift change in the existing military theory and practice and rapid expansion of nuclearization," the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported, paraphrasing his remarks.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned South Korean-U.S. military drills and vowed a rapid expansion of his nuclear forces to counter rivals, state media said Tuesday, as he inspected his most advanced warship being fitted with nuclear-capable systems.

By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an "obvious expression of their will to provoke war,

An illegal immigrant from China was sentenced to eight years in prison for smuggling weapons and sensitive technology to North Korea, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. Shenghua Wen, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China,

A California man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an "obvious expression of their will to provoke war," state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.

North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un remained unhappy as the U.S. and South Korea conducted their annual summer joint military drills.

South Korea and the United States began their annual large-scale joint military exercise on Monday to better cope with threats by nuclear-armed North Korea.

SEOUL: Six elderly men who served lengthy jail terms for spying against South Korea have asked to be sent to the North, a Seoul unification official told AFP on Tuesday (Aug 19), decades after their release.

South Korea’s birth rate has dropped throughout much of the past decade, spelling trouble for the military as regional threats and global conflicts simmer.

U.N. Command member states must continue to “stand shoulder to shoulder” with South Korea as battle lines drawn in Russia’s war against Ukraine stretch to include North Korea, the French ambassador to South Korea said.