North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a summit meeting in Beijing, China, Sep. 4, 2025. Credit: KCNA The recent spectacle in Beijing, where China’s leader Xi Jinping hosted Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim ...

The United States continues to monitor the military developments of its adversaries, China and North Korea, as an Army spy plane flew near the borders of both countries. The U.S. Forces Korea, the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the North Korean Embassy in ...

Since talks collapsed between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, in 2019, North Korea’s reckless drive for long-range nuclear capabilities has fueled tensions on the Korean Peninsula to new heights. But Pyongyang ...

As the United States steps back from promoting democracy in North Korea through information campaigns, China is seizing this strategic opportunity to fill the void. Through a sophisticated approach spanning technology, media, education, and economic ...

Autumn has arrived, and the Amnok River is bustling with activity. North Korean villages along its banks are crowded with people busy with the fall harvest. Cement factories in Manpo and Hyesan operate 24 hours a day, spewing thick smoke from their ...

THERE IS AN unusual buzz of activity in Tumen, a small Chinese city on the border with North Korea. When The Economist visited in recent days, builders and cranes could be seen working on customs and immigration centres at the end of a new cross-border bridge.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the country’s defense minister said Tuesday. “The ...

A United States commander said treaty allies South Korea, Japan and the Philippines could form a “strategic triangle” to contain China if military planners view the region from a nontraditional perspective, with east orientation at the top. General ...

HONG KONG — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping that their countries’ “friendship will never change” even as the international situation shifts around them, North Korean state media reported Friday. The two leaders met ...

SEOUL/BEIJING, Sept 29 (Reuters) - North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui met with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on Sunday during her second visit to the Chinese capital in just one month, both countries' official news agencies reported.