China has traditionally viewed North Korea as a security buffer and an ideologically aligned neighbor it can dominate.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un faces embarrassment after a failed naval destroyer launch. The incident prompts an investigation ...

Kim Jong-un, the authoritarian leader of North Korea, has held power since 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il. Much about ... striking and curious images that capture the ...

State media footage also showed leader Kim with his teenage daughter, known as Kim Ju Ae. Seoul-based specialist site NK News said the release of the images ... Kim Jong Il, and his third known ...

North Koreans are required to wear pins over their hearts which for decades bore images of either the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, or his son Kim Jong Il, or both. The existence of pins ...

Kim Jong-il’s pin was introduced in 1992 ... Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mr. Kim has tried to reinvent his family’s rule, casting himself as a ...

(Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images Kim Jong Un asserts that these satellites will play a crucial role in bolstering North Korea's military capabilities.

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's state newspaper published pictures of Kim Ju Ae, the famous 10-year-old daughter of Kim Jong ... via Getty Image It's been slightly over a year since images ...

FILE - In this photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, distributed by Korea News Service, leader Kim Il Sung, right, and Kim Jong Il ... Service via AP Images, File) ...

Images on Russia ... with yellow striping that Kim Jong Un was pictured boarding to Russia is the same design as the train that the dictator's late father Kim Jong Il appeared to use to visit ...

In 2009, the Chosun media outlet in South Korea published details on the train used by Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, and estimated ... official state business. Few images of its interior have been ...