Russian President Vladimir Putin is to make a historic visit to North Korea, with the two sides likely to sign a “strategic partnership treaty.”

North Korea successfully test-fires a missile featuring a new navigation system and vows to further bolster its nuclear force as a deterrent against enemy aggression.

The North Korean leader oversees drills simulating a nuclear counterattack amid joint military exercises by the US and South Korea.

Sergei Naryshkin paid a visit to the peninsular country earlier this week to discuss security cooperation.

North Korea has fired “several” "strategic" cruise missiles, possibly nuclear-type, into the sea off the country's west coast, the fourth time in just over a week Pyongyang has launched such missiles.

North Korea has carried out a trial of its underwater nuclear weaponry system in a demonstration against the joint military exercises conducted this week by South Korea, the US, and Japan, which “seriously” threatened the “security” of Pyongyang.

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, calls for constitutional change to identify the south as “number one hostile state.”

The North Korean leader has inspected new photos of the ‘target regions’ taken by Pyongyang’s spy satellite.

Over the past year and a half the DPRK has launched an unprecedented number of missiles, which the US has tried to deter by expanding preexisting sanctions against Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un asserts ongoing nuclear development is in response to the "worst threat" posed by the US and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan.