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North Korea Seems Likely to Use Nuclear Weapons First: America Needs to Think It Through

Key Points and Summary - U.S.–South Korea drills now assume North Korea could use nuclear weapons first. -Washington faces two realistic paths. One is to step back and allow Seoul to build its ...
Human Rights Watch

North Korea: ‘Lost Decade’ of Rights Abuses

(New York) – A new United Nations report finds that the North Korean government has increased the use of surveillance, forced labor, and severe punishments over the past decade, maintaining “total ...
Bloomberg L.P.

North Korea’s Military Is More Advanced Than You Think

Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia politics with a special focus on China. Previously, she was the BBC's lead Asia presenter and worked for the BBC across Asia and South ...

South Korea calls for greater Chinese efforts to bring North Korea back to talks

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to make greater efforts to convince North Korea to return to talks.
Yahoo

North Korea tells UN: We will never give up nuclear program

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -North Korea will never give up its nuclear program, the country's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, describing it as ...
CBS News

North Korea's Kim Jong Un debuts daughter – and potential successor – to the world

When North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un stepped off his armored train in Beijing to attend celebrations marking 80 years since the end of WWII in Asia, his young daughter Kim Ju Ae surprised the ...

Kim Jong-un says past negotiations with US confirmed ‘unchangeable’ hostility toward North Korea

Kim Jong-un says past negotiations with US confirmed ‘unchangeable’ hostility toward North Korea - North Korea’s leader ...
New York Post

Kim Jong Un shows off ‘most powerful’ missile during NK parade, plans to ‘eliminates all threats’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un displayed a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang that included foreign leaders on Friday. The yet-to-be-tested ...