China's trade with North Korea in the first half of 2025 rose about 30 percent from a year earlier, official data showed ...

North Korea has been China's only formal treaty ally thanks to a mutual aid pact signed in 1961. The Korea–Russia Friendship Bridge remains the sole crossing point along their 10-mile land border.

A North Korean man crossed the DMZ on foot before midnight Thursday, asking South Korean troops for help in a rare defection ...

South Korea's newly minted President Lee Jae-myung, during his first conversation with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping Tuesday, asked for help reining in North Korea's Kim Jong Un regime. Lee, who ...

Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Monday that Pyongyang had "no interest" in ...

China, which for decades has helped prop up North Korea's fragile economy, joined the other four U.N. Security Council members in voting for the current sanctions regime following North Korea's ...