The U.S. and South Korea wrapped up large-scale springtime military drills last week, but not without a response from the DPRK. NK News Managing Editor Bryan Betts (@BryanBetts21) sits down to discuss

The U.S. and South Korea launched large-scale springtime military exercises to practice neutralizing North Korean nuclear threats this month. Pyongyang has called the Freedom Shield exercises betwee

North Korea marked the fifth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Uns trip to Vietnam by highlighting relations between Pyongyang and Hanoi, while making no mention of Kims failed summit with former U.S.

A German delegation traveled to North Korea this week to inspect the condition of the countrys embassy in Pyongyang, in what appears to be the first visit by European staff in some four years. - NK

Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Koreas leader, raised the possibility of engagement between Pyongyang and Tokyo last week but caveated that this is her personal view. - NK News Lead Co

The first group of tourists to visit North Korea since before the COVID-19 pandemic returned home to Russia this week after a 4-day trip to Pyongyang and the Masikryong Ski Resort. - NK News Data Corr

South Korea and Russia have gone back and forth in recent days after Moscow took issue with President Yoon Suk-yeols description of North Korea at a defense meeting. The NK News team discusses the wa

Some three weeks ago, longtime North Korea watchers Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker set off alarm bells from Washington to Seoul when they asserted that like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un h

North Korea appears to have demolished a large monument in Pyongyang symbolizing hope for reunification with South Korea, following orders from Kim Jong Un to erase symbols that celebrate inter-Kore

North Korean propaganda websites targeting South Korea suddenly started to disappear from the internet last week, after leader Kim Jong Un declared in late December that Korean unification is now imp