Kim has now designated South Korea as the North’s “ principal enemy” and defined it as a separate, hostile country – in a significant departure from Pyongyang’s traditional view of …
Concerned by the dramatic developments on the Korean peninsula, some South Korean analysts have raised concerns about the United States’ security commitments. In an indication of waning faith in the …
Accusing South Korea of pursuing a “unification by absorption” policy, Kim described inter-Korean relations as “relations between two states hostile to each other and the relations between two belligerent states”. …
North Korea’s pledged constitutional changes mark a clear break with the past, when its revered founder Kim Il-sung, the current leader’s grandfather, defined the South as an object for reconciliation …
Sri Lankans Siyam Mohamed and MJ Nimshan Dananjaya hadn’t realised how close South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island is to North Korea when they arrived in November to work catching crabs. They …
He ordered the military to prepare to “pacify the entire territory of South Korea”, including with nuclear bombs if necessary, in response to any attack. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un …
Beijing, a close partner of both Pyongyang and Moscow, has remained low key about the growing alignment between the two, repeatedly saying that their cooperation was a matter between the …
He cited a court ruling in September that found unconstitutional a 2020 law prohibiting such leaflet launches, mostly by former defectors from the North, with those in breach facing a …
Immediately after the launch, South Korea partially suspended a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement in which the two Koreas agreed to de-escalate tensions along the border. The actions agreed on in …