Since taking office in a snap election in June, the liberal Lee has taken steps to lower tensions with the nuclear-armed North, and the issue is one where he is expected to find common ground with Trump, who still boasts of his historic summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The soldier expressed a desire to go to North Korea in July, a decision that was influenced by his fragile health and concern that his time is running out.

Captured during the Korean War and imprisoned for decades for refusing to renounce his communist beliefs, 95-year-old Ahn Hak-sop now has a single dying wish: to return to North Korea and be buried alongside his comrades.

A California man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea

The intercontinental ballistic missiles likely to be housed at the military base “pose a potential nuclear threat to East Asia and the continental United States,” researchers said.

North Korean Ahn Hak-sop was captured during the Korean War and imprisoned for decades for refusing to renounce his political beliefs. Now aged 95, he has a single dying wish: to return home to be buried alongside his comrades.

North Korea has a secret military base near the Chinese border to hold ICBMs that pose a "potential nuclear threat" to the United States, a new report said.

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.

Now 95 years old and living in South Korea, Ahn Hak-seop longs to return to North Korea so he can die there. There’s just one problem: no one is certain if North Korea will actually take him.

Ulchi Freedom Shield will involve 21,000 soldiers in computer-simulated command post operations and field training.