Rappler's latest stories on Kim Jong-Un
South Korea, U.S. mark 70th anniversary of Korean War
The fighting ended with an armistice that was never replaced by a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula divided by the Demilitarized Zone and the two Koreas still technically at war

North Korea's Kim suspends military plans against South – KCNA
The North also begin removing loudspeakers from border areas, which they had started setting up just two days ago to broadcast anti-South propaganda

Ex-Trump aide Bolton says North Korea's Kim laughing at U.S. president
(UPDATED) Former US national security advisor John Bolton also says he does not consider Trump to be fit for office and hopes he is a one-term president

Kim Yo Jong: North Korean leader's increasingly powerful sister
The North has never had a woman leader but speculation swirls over Yo Jong as a potential successor in the event of the death of her brother

North Korea denounces U.S. two years after Singapore summit
The latest broadside contains some of the harshest criticism Pyongyang has sent Washington's way in recent months, and casts doubt over the future of the two sides' long-stalled nuclear talks process

North Korea discusses new policies for increasing 'nuclear war deterrence' – KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un discusses with the Central Military Commission 'crucial measures... for considerably increasing the firepower strike ability' of the military


North Korea lashes South as Kim praises China's Xi
Kim Jong-un sends Chinese leader Xi Jinping a diplomatic communication congratulating him for China's 'success' in controlling the novel coronavirus epidemic

Seoul says Kim Jong-un not believed to have received surgery – report
An unnamed official says Seoul had enough grounds to draw the conclusion

Trump 'glad' Kim Jong-un 'is back, and well'
US President Donald Trump had downplayed reports on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's poor health

Why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's health matters
Here is a look at why Kim's health has been the subject of so much conjecture

FALSE: Video of Kim Jong Un's funeral
The footage was of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il lying in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace. Kim Jong Un also made a public appearance on May 1.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes first appearance in nearly 3 weeks – KCNA
The North Korean leader makes a public appearance after weeks of rumors about his ill health or death

FALSE: North Korea ruling party 'confirms' Kim Jong Un's death on April 25
As of writing, there are no reports from credible news organizations that support this claim

North Korea's Kim 'alive and well' – Seoul
The adviser says that Kim has been staying in Wonsan – a resort town in the country's east – since April 13, adding: 'No suspicious movements have so far been detected'

Train likely belonging to North Korea's Kim seen at resort town – U.S. monitor
United States think tank 38North cautions that the train's presence 'does not prove the whereabouts of the North Korean leader or indicate anything about his health'

Trump says reports on Kim Jong-un's health 'incorrect'
Trump criticizes a CNN report saying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was ailing

Seoul plays down report on North Korean leader's health
(UPDATED) The North Korean leader has not made a public appearance since presiding over a meeting of the Workers' Party politburo on April 11

Low-key celebrations for North Korea's founder in face of virus
Pyongyang has imposed tight restrictions against the pandemic that has swept the world since emerging in neighboring China

North Korea's Kim reshuffles top governing body
Kim Jong-un establishes an iron grip on the levers of authority in his nuclear-armed country since inheriting power in his late 20s in 2011

North Korea weapons test was 'long-range artillery' – KCNA
Kim Jong Un told the troops to keep in mind 'the iron will and ardent patriotism to defend as strong as an iron wall the socialist homeland dearer than their own lives,' KCNA reports

Kim Jong-un in first appearance in weeks as coronavirus rages next door
The appearance is Kim's first in 22 days after he attended Lunar New Year festivities, then disappeared from the public eye amid global concern over the coronavirus outbreak

North Korea says will resume U.S. talks if demands fully met
'We have been deceived by the US, being caught in the dialogue with it for over one year and a half, and that was the lost time for us,' says North Korea's foreign ministry adviser

North Korean leader 'skips' set-piece New Year's speech
Kim has been giving the annual speech since 2013, after he revives the tradition started by North Korea's founding leader Kim Il-sung

Kim 'a man of his word' on denuclearization, Trump says
US President Donald Trump once again says he and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un 'like' each other amid the latter's threats about a 'new strategic weapon'

North Korea ends test moratoriums, threatens 'new' weapon
(UPDATED) 'The world will witness a new strategic weapon to be possessed by the DPRK in the near future,' says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

North Korea's Kim holds top party meeting ahead of U.S. deadline
State media says Kim Jong-un presided over the meeting which discussed a new 'transparent, anti-imperialist independent stand'

North Korea's Kim discusses bolstering military as deadline approaches
North Korea warns US it would 'pay dearly' if it criticizes the country's human rights record
North Korea conducts another 'crucial test' at Sohae launch site – KCNA
(3rd UPDATE) The spokesman of the North's National Academy of Defence Science says the 'research successes' will bolster up the 'reliable strategic nuclear deterrent' of North Korea

U.S., North Korea on collision course as New Year deadline looms
The United States calls a UN Security Council meeting on North Korea's series of rocket launches, the latest return to antagonism as diplomacy languishes

Trump warns Kim he has 'everything' to lose through hostility
'Kim Jong-un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way,' US President Donald Trump tweets in response to an unspecified test at the Sohae space launch center

Kim Jong-un rejects invitation to South Korea summit – KCNA
In a commentary, North Korea accuses the South of failing to carry out agreements reached between the two Koreas and harming cross-border ties by relying on the United States

North Korea 'no longer interested' in summits with U.S. – KCNA
'We are no longer interested in such talks that bring nothing to us,' says North Korea's foreign ministry adviser Kim Kye-gwan

North Korea's Kim sends Moon condolences for mother's death
Kang Han-ok dies from a chronic illness on Tuesday, October 29, at the age of 92

Top Venezuelan gov't official in North Korea – state media
Diosdado Cabello, the right-hand man of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is in North Korea leading a 'high-level delegation'

Trump says 'probably not' right time to visit Pyongyang
'I don't think we're ready for that,' Trump tells reporters when asked about visiting Pyongyang for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

North Korea again tests 'super-large' rocket launcher – state media
North Korea's state media says its leader Kim Jong Un supervised a fresh test of a 'super-large multiple rocket launcher' system

North Korea fires 'projectiles' after offering talks with U.S.
No further details are immediately available but these are the latest to be fired since July. Previous launches have been identified as short-range missiles.

North Korea solidifies Kim Jong-un's 'monolithic' power
The Supreme People's Assembly, the North's rubber-stamp parliament, approves a series of constitutional changes to ensure what the legislature's head Choe Ryong-hae called Kim's 'monolithic guidance'

North Korea's Kim oversaw test of 'new weapon' – KCNA
(UPDATED) Defence officials in South Korea say 2 short-range ballistic missiles were fired by North Korea at daybreak

Trump says North Korea's Kim wants to resume nuclear talks
US President Donald Trump is determined to resume the talks with North Korea ahead of the 2020 US presidential elections

Trump sides with North Korea's Kim on war games amid new missile tests
US President Donald Trump does not criticize North Korea's missile tests following a 'beautiful letter' from Kim Jong Un expressing anger over their war games

Kim Jong-un sends missile 'warning' to South Korea, U.S. as tensions rise
KCNA, North Korea's state news agency, says Kim watched the launches, which verified the 'war capacity' of the 'new-type tactical guided missiles'

Trump on North Korea missile test: Kim won't disappoint me
'He will do the right thing because he is far too smart not to, and he does not want to disappoint his friend, President Trump,' says the US President in a tweet
North Korea fires short-range missiles in latest provocation
(3rd UPDATE) Seoul's National Security Office of the presidential Blue House says both of the two missiles are 'analyzed' to be 'new type of short-range ballistic missiles'

North Korean leader votes in elections with 99.98% turnout – KCNA
Given the absence of any competition among candidates, elections in North Korea are essentially a political ritual which, observers say, allows the authorities to claim a popular mandate while reinforcing loyalty to Kim's regime

North Korea warns U.S.-South Korea drills will affect nuclear talks
'If the military exercise really goes ahead, it would affect the DPRK-US working-level talks,' an unnamed foreign ministry spokesperson says in comments carried by state news agency KCNA, using the official acronym for North Korea

North Korea says U.S. 'hell-bent' on sanctions despite Trump-Kim meet
Pyongyang's delegation to the United Nations on Wednesday, July 3, says the US continues to be 'obsessed with sanctions'

5 things we learned from Trump-Kim III
Takeaways from the weekend encounter of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un

North Korea hails 'historic' Kim-Trump summit
(UPDATED) Regional powerhouse China says renewed discussions between North Korea and the United States are of 'great significance'

Trump steps into North Korea, in historic first
(UPDATED) The impromptu meeting in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Korean peninsula comes with negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington over the North's nuclear arsenal at a deadlock
