He vows to punish as criminals those responsible for the failure, in which the ship had its hull torn open and ended up on its side in the water.

North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un took a bold step on April 27, 2018 and crossed over to South Korea for a historic summit. This was the first time a North Korean leader had entered the South since the Korean War armistice.

In reality, the conflict was an important turning point in world history that still reverberates ... the events that triggered North Korea’s nuclear program; and South Korea’s economic expansion.

After Russia claimed to have retaken the Kursk region from Ukraine, North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it had sent soldiers to fight in Moscow’s war.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a test of a short-range ballistic missile and long-range artillery on Thursday and stressed the importance of combat readiness of the country's nuclear forces,

The biggest movie in North Korean history is a monster movie based on classic kaiju movies called Pulgasari. Filmed in 1985, it was mostly the brainchild of director and producer Shin Sang-ok. It is a crazy movie,

The building, previously known as the Unification Pavilion, was renamed Panmun Hall sometime in 2024, ministry spokesman Koo Byongsam said at a news conference Monday in Seoul. A sign bearing the former name was taken down in January 2024 and replaced with the new one about seven months later, he said.

International visitors have returned to the DPRK for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic resealed the North Korean border. Visitors from Russia, an ally of the DPRK, traveled to Pyongyang, the capital, in February 2024; in February 2025, visitors from Britain, Canada, France and Germany arrived in the city of Rason.