North Korea has been China's only formal treaty ally thanks to a mutual aid pact signed in 1961. The Korea–Russia Friendship Bridge remains the sole crossing point along their 10-mile land border.

Analysts say Beijing's role will depend on new South Korean leader's approach to China and potential for US-North Korea dialogue Newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has signalled a ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un worries that without nuclear leverage, China could try to interfere in the internal affairs of his country. After the death if Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011 ...

New South Korean president vows peace with North Korea, better China relationship A North Korean who crossed the heavily fortified land border into the South has been detained and taken into ...

China explores multiple channels to get media content into North Korea, including sending USB drives, SD cards, and MP5 video players through traders or other North Koreans traveling to China.

China, which for decades has helped prop up North Korea's fragile economy, joined the other four U.N. Security Council members in voting for the current sanctions regime following North Korea's ...

North Korea, China and Russia all were quick to condemn the American attack, with Russian President Vladimir Putin calling it “unprovoked aggression,” China's Foreign Ministry saying it ...

South Korea's newspaper The Dong-A Ilbo said on Monday, citing a South Korean government official: "The North Korean leader is believed to have ordered the ship's restoration to be completed ...

Still, the possibility of the U.S. becoming involved in a conflict involving either China or North Korea is a very real one, and Beijing and Pyongyang will almost certainly try to assess what the ...