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.

Kim Jong-un hugged the returning troops and awarded the country’s highest medal to nine soldiers killed in action.

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.

The commander of American forces in South Korea has underscored the Korean Peninsula's central role in the U.S. security strategy in the Indo-Pacific region, according to a website of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) on Tuesday,

North Korea fired 10 artillery rounds from a multiple rocket launcher, Seoul's military said Wednesday, as Pyongyang opened a key policy meeting of ruling party officials.

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.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised his country's achievements in 2025, which included sending troops to overseas military operations, state media KCNA said on Friday.

A "Korean Dream" youth concert promptrf students to reflect on the division of the Korean Peninsula and the long-running debate over unification.