North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will draw a dangerous conclusion from the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran: Nuclear weapons are the ultimate guarantor of regime survival.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be asking himself if the time has come to pick up the phone and call US President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump remains open to talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "without any preconditions," a White House official said Thursday, in response to Kim's latest remarks on bilateral relations.

North Korea warned that the United States "war reinforcements" will be "contained and wiped out" after additional American stealth fighter jets were sent to Northeast Asia. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request from Newsweek for comment.

Kim Jong Un in a rare message has signaled his willingness to improve ties with the US, while announcing his plan to expand North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and operational range. According

The North Korean leader, however, took a sterner tone on South Korea, labeling it as a “hostile state and eternal enemy,” and threatening to “completely destroy” it.

There is little doubt that the U.S. raid on Venezuela and the detention of President Nicolas Maduro came as a major shock to North Korea. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, a spokesperson for the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned ...

In 2014, when U.S.-North Korea relations were at their worst, the North's state media Korean Central News Agency criticized then-President Barack Obama, calling him "a monkey inhabiting the tropical rainforests of Africa." It also used expressions such as ...