Looking ahead to 2026, Jeong said it would be difficult to expect major breakthroughs such as a U.S.-North Korea summit. He said Washington's stated goal of denuclearization and North Korea's negotiating conditions make a sudden turn toward dialogue unlikely, while the United States may continue relying on sanctions to pressure Pyongyang.

Kim has been presiding over a key party meeting this week as the country prepares for the Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after carrying out duties in Russia, the North’s KCNA news agency reported on Saturday.

South Korea and the United States held talks Tuesday to coordinate their North Korea policy, officials said, an effort that appears clouded by discord between relevant ministries in Seoul.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has opened a meeting to prepare for the upcoming ruling party congress, one of the country’s biggest political conferences meant to lay out new state priorities.

In Kim Jong-un’s public grief for fallen mine-clearers, observers see a strategic play to lock in a role in Russia’s post-war rebuilding.

South Korean and U.S. diplomatic authorities held their first follow-up consultation on the "South Korea-U.S. Leaders’ Summit Joint Fact Sheet" to coordinate North Korea policy on the 16th. The consultation,

Decades after North Korea's abductions, relatives in Japan and elsewhere in Asia are still waiting for answers... and for loved ones to finally come home.

According to reporting by the Kyiv Independent, Kateryna Rashevska of Ukraine’s Regional Center for Human Rights told a congressional subcommittee that at least two abducted Ukrainian children were moved to the Songdowon camp in North Korea.

Dictator Kim Jong Un was seen smiling with injured soldiers who came back from helping his friend Vladimir Putin, on the frontline of his illegal invasion of Ukraine, in wheelchairs