President Trump described North Korea's border as a barrier of “seven walls of wire” electrified with “a million volts.” ...

The history of North Korea's claimed nuclear tests. — -- Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence's trip to neighboring South Korea this weekend, tensions between the United States and North Korea ...

North Korea has emerged as an increasingly valuable partner to the United States' leading adversaries, including Russia and Iran, as they engage in conflicts with nations backed by the U.S. and its ...

On October 31, North Korea fired its newest and most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-19, into the ocean off its east coast. The test launch marked the longest-ever ...

In the summer of 2017, the United States learned a humbling lesson. For years, American intelligence agencies had assessed that North Korea would need several more years—until 2020 or even 2022—before ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. North Korea is fast becoming a weapons supplier of choice for malign actors ...

The emergence of an “Axis of Upheaval” consisting of revisionist states—which, to borrow language from former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, seek to “alter the foundational principles of the ...

A country on the precipice of war with its neighbors would not be selling arms and sending troops off to fight in a distant conflict. North Korea has been too occupied with helping Russia in Ukraine, ...

Mr. Hennigan writes about national security, foreign policy and conflict for the Opinion section. One day after 14 American 30,000-pound bombs thundered down on Iran, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, international correspondent Anthony Kuhn talks about how he covers North Korea without ...