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Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong Un is the chairman of the Workers Party of Korea, the supreme leader of North Korea and one of the most controversial figures on the world stage. He has been in power since 2011.

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An image released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows a test fire of a tactical ballistic missile by North Korea

South Korea eyes nuclear arms as North allies with Russia

South Koreans increasingly lean toward an independent nuclear capability as questions over the US's commitment grow.
ConflictsJuly 2, 2024
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test

North Korea fires missiles after South Korea-US-Japan drill

South Korea's military says that the north has launched two missiles, one of which likely lost control and blew up.
PoliticsJuly 1, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang

Can Russia send weapons to North Korea amid sanctions?

A major new defense deal between Pyongyang and Moscow is stoking concern that Russia could ship weapons to North Korea.
PoliticsJune 26, 2024
People watch a news program

North Korea: Suspected hypersonic missile explodes midair

The launch came before a US aircraft carrier deployed for a trilateral military drill with South Korea and Japan.
ConflictsJune 26, 2024
A South Korean soldier looks on as a battery of propaganda loudspeakers are removed on the border with North Korea on 16 June 2004 in Paju, South Korea

Conflict fears grow ahead of Korean War anniversary

Tensions between the two Koreas are running high amid trash balloons and a defense deal with Russia.
ConflictsJune 24, 2024
Putin and Kim walk past children waving North Korean and Russian flags in Pyongyang

How is North Korea supporting Russia in Ukraine?

North Korea has reportedly provided artillery shells — and more — for Russia to keep battering Ukrainian defenses.
ConflictsJune 19, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival in Pyongyang for a state visit in the early hours of June 19, 2024, as shown in this photo provided by the North's Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea's Kim and Russia's Putin sign partnership treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un sign a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty.
PoliticsJune 19, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, laughing, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, smiling, go down a hallway shortly after Putin arrived at the Pyongyang Sunan International Airport.

Putin arrives in North Korea for state visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang to meet leader Kim Jong Un.
PoliticsJune 19, 202402:16 min
Kim and Putin shake hands during Kim's visit to Russia in September 2023

North Korea: Why is Kim Jong Un eager to welcome Putin?

With Vladimir Putin's visit, he and Kim Jong Un want to position themselves as powerful allies against the US dominance.
PoliticsJune 18, 2024
Putin's face on a banner in Pyongyang

Putin arrives in North Korea for first visit in 24 years

Russia's president is on a two-day trip to North Korea, his first in 24 years.
PoliticsJune 18, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin standing and speaking during a press conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Russian visit boosts North Korea's struggling economy

The weapons deal with Russia will help North Korea's economy to grow for the first time in five years.
BusinessJune 18, 2024
Russland Präsident Wladimir Putin und Nordkoreas Machthaber Kim Jong Un

Putin heading for North Korea to meet with Kim

Russia and North Korea have drawn closer since the imposition of Western sanctions over Moscow's war in Ukraine.
PoliticsJune 17, 202401:43 min
Two South Korean soliders with a gigantic loudspeaker in the background

New Korean flare-up carries greater air of menace

The two Koreas are facing off again, and some say Kim Jong Un has grown more confident since deepening ties with Moscow.
ConflictsJune 12, 2024
A photo taken on September 9, 2017 shows a North Korean propaganda speaker (top C) behind a South Korean military guard post (L) seen across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two countries from the South Korean island of Ganghwa

South Korea fires warning shots as North Korean cross border

Tensions in the region are running high over trash-carrying balloons and propaganda campaigns.
ConflictsJune 11, 2024
Soliders pick up trash in South Korea

Are North Korea's trash balloons an escalation?

South Korea has suspended a 2018 peace agreement and said it might resume propaganda broadcasts into the North.
PoliticsJune 4, 2024
Two South Korean soldiers examine the content of a North Korean balloon

North Korea to stop flying trash-filled balloons south

North Korean officials warned more trash-filled balloons would go into South Korea if Seoul sends leaflets their way.
ConflictsJune 2, 2024
A balloon believed to have been sent by North Korea on May 29

North Korea sends 600 more trash-filled balloons into South

North Korea began sending trash and excrement-filled balloons into South this week, calling them "gifts of sincerity."
ConflictsJune 2, 2024
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, supervises a test firing of a new multiple rocket launch system at an undisclosed place in North Korea

North Korea: Kim attends rocket launcher test

Kim Jong Un said the updated rocket launcher will bring "significant change" to the combat capabilities of his forces.
PoliticsMay 11, 2024
North Korean leader mourns death of ex-propaganda chief North Korean leader

North Korea's former propaganda chief dies at 94

Kim Ki Nam was best known as the mastermind behind building the personality cult around the ruling Kim dynasty.
PoliticsMay 8, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in a double photo

North Korea and Iran — a new anti-Western alliance?

Pyongyang and Tehran are united by their grievances against the US and could be part of an emerging anti-Western bloc.
ConflictsMay 7, 2024
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, supervises a drill on April 22

North Korea says missile launch was nuclear response drill

North Korea said it tested a "nuclear trigger" simulation drill as a "warning signal" to the US and South Korea.
PoliticsApril 23, 2024
The DPRK Missile Administration conducting a test launch of "Pyoljji-1-2" in a photo released by KCNA.

North Korea tests 'super large' warhead

South Korea, Japan and the US have not confirmed detecting the test.
ConflictsApril 20, 2024
A news program airs a file image of a missile launch by North Korea on April 2, 2024

North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel hypersonic missile

Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch and has described the missile as a key piece of his nuclear war deterrent weaponry.
PoliticsApril 3, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

UN: Russia vetoes extension of North Korea sanctions monitor

Before the vote, Russia told the UN Security Council that Western countries are attempting to "strangle" North Korea.
PoliticsMarch 29, 2024
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

North Korea says Japan requested summit with Kim Jong Un

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said high-level talks with North Korea are "important to resolve issues."
ConflictsMarch 25, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a training exercise of the North Korean army

North Korea fires missiles as Blinken visits Seoul

South Korea and Japan said Pyongyang fired multiple ballistic missiles into the sea.
ConflictsMarch 18, 2024
Kim Jong Un

North Korean leader Kim oversees military drills

Kim Jong Un has supervised North Korea's paratroop drills aimed at displaying his soldiers' ability.
PoliticsMarch 16, 2024
Kim Jong Un behind a desk with microphones

Japan, North Korea hint they are ready for high-level talks

Japan wants the return of its nationals abducted by North Korea, while Pyongyang is looking for sanctions relief.
PoliticsFebruary 27, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in September

Putin gives Kim Jong Un Aurus luxury car

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received the Russian-made Aurus to celebrate ties between the two leaders.
PoliticsFebruary 20, 2024
A group of Russian tourists pose for a picture at Pyongyang International Airport, North Korea

Russians enter North Korea as first post-COVID tourists

It's the first foreign tour group to visit the reclusive state since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SocietyFebruary 9, 2024
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 24, 2024..

North Korea fires several cruise missiles: Seoul

South Korea's military said North Korea has fired several cruise missiles, adding to rising tensions.
ConflictsJanuary 28, 2024
screen grab taken from a SpaceX video shows the Falcon 9 launch of the Korea 425 Mission at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

Korean space race: North, South contest satellite supremacy

Seoul and Pyongyang trade rocket launches and satellite deployments as their long-standing rivalry enters a new realm.
PoliticsJanuary 25, 2024
Südkorea Seoul | Nordkorea schafft Organisationen zur Wiedervereinigung ab | Kim Jong-un

What's behind new tensions between North and South Korea

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un said he is no longer interested in reintegrating with the South.
PoliticsJanuary 25, 202402:40 min
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 24, 2024.

North Korea says it tested new cruise missile

Tensions in the region have risen in recent months as North Korea continues to ramp up weapons development.
PoliticsJanuary 25, 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin welcomes Kim Jong Un, September 13, 2023

North Korea says Putin planning Pyongyang visit

This follows Pyongyang's foreign minister spending the week in Moscow, and Kim's trip to Russia last year.
PoliticsJanuary 21, 2024
Kim Jong Un attends the 10th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly

North Korea's Kim closes agencies aimed at reunification

North Korea has slashed three organizations in charge of cooperation with the South.
ConflictsJanuary 16, 2024
Kim Jong Un seen in front of a missile launcher in 2022

Is North Korea preparing for war in 2024?

Kim Jong Un is once again ratcheting up the war rhetoric, with analysts warning it could go beyond the usual bluster.
ConflictsJanuary 15, 2024
A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing

North Korea fires 200 artillery shells near maritime border

Seoul reported no civilian or military damage, but ordered evacuations from two islands as a "preventative measure."
ConflictsJanuary 5, 2024
A mobile missile launcher in and undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

Kim Jong Un calls for expanded missile launcher production

North Korean state media reported that Kim has called for increased production of mobile missile launchers.
ConflictsJanuary 5, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Kim Ju Ae sit at a long table, against a blue and white background. Both are dressed in white

Is Kim Jong Un grooming his daughter to rule North Korea?

It once seemed unimaginable, but there is growing evidence Kim Ju Ae could be North Korea's next leader.
PoliticsDecember 29, 2023
Kim Jong Un at the Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang.

North Korea's Kim wants to 'accelerate' war preparations

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged his party to be more ready for conflict at the annual year-end meeting.
ConflictsDecember 28, 2023
Kim Cheol poses in front of trees

In North Korea, torture awaits those deported from China

After 25 years in China, a North Korean woman was deported and vanished without a trace.
Human RightsDecember 20, 2023
A TV screen shows an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, December 19

Kim Jong Un warns US after North Korea ICBM test

North Korea had fired into the sea a missile with a range believed to be large enough to cover the whole of the US.
PoliticsDecember 19, 2023
A North Korean military photo purporting to show the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on March 16, 2023

North Korea flouts ban, fires ballistic missile, says Seoul

South Korea says Pyongyang fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan late Sunday night.
ConflictsDecember 17, 2023
Photo from 2010: North Koreans onboard a boat float along the swollen Yalu River

China under pressure to stop repatriating North Koreans

South Korea has demanded that Beijing halts the repatriation of North Koreans and instead recognizes them as refugees.
PoliticsDecember 6, 2023
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks to mothers in Pyongyang

North Korea's Kim Jong Un urges women to have more children

North Korea depends on physical labor to maintain its economy amid isolation from trade with the West.
PoliticsDecember 4, 2023
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un launghing

North Korea says satellite has images of 'target regions'

State media has reported North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, has reviewed images captured by a new spy satellite.
PoliticsNovember 25, 2023
Kim Jong Un

North Korea says spy satellite launch was self-defense

Kim Jong Un labelled the launch an "eye-opening event" amid "dangerous and aggressive" moves by hostile forces.
ConflictsNovember 24, 2023
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on as a rocket carrying a spy satellite Malligyong-1 is launched

North Korea ends military agreement with South

Pyongyang scrapped the pact after Seoul partially suspended the agreement following North Korea’s spy satellite launch.
ConflictsNovember 23, 2023
A rocket carrying a spy satellite Malligyong-1

South Korea suspends military agreement with North

North Korea's use of ballistic missile technology for a recent launch was condemned by the UN and the US.
ConflictsNovember 22, 2023