North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claimed his nuclear-armed country could "completely destroy" South Korea if its security were threatened, reiterating his refusal to engage with Seoul, state media said Thursday. However, he left the door open to dialogue with Washington as he concluded a ruling party congress outlining his policy goals for the next five years.
There are many things that China and Germany do not see eye-to-eye on -- notably Russia's war in Ukraine -- but the leaders of the world's second- and third-largest economies nonetheless pledged Wednesday to work to deepen ties in an era of global turbulence.
China warned the U.S. on Wednesday not to impose new tariffs on its goods as President Trump removes tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court and replaces them with duties that use other legal authorities.
The U.S. and South Korean militaries said on Wednesday they will conduct their annual springtime exercises next month to bolster their countries' combined defense capabilities against a backdrop of a deepening diplomatic freeze with nuclear-armed North Korea.
A United States military plane hit a concrete barrier while attempting to take off from a road during contingency training in the Philippines, injuring all five American personnel aboard, Philippine officials said Wednesday.
North Korea's Ninth Workers Party Congress kicked off Friday with widespread speculation that Party General Secretary Kim Jong-un will present his teenage daughter Ju-ae as the nation's next leader.
China restricted Tuesday exports to 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to Japan's "remilitarization," in the latest escalation of tensions with Tokyo.
A series of recent high-stakes aerial incidents involving Chinese, Japanese and U.S. -- but not South Korean -- warplanes has become a flashpoint in the increasingly complicated alliance between Seoul and Washington.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will make his first visit to China next week since taking the helm of Europe's biggest economy, as he tries to position the country to a world in which assertive great powers play an increasingly dominant role.
China reacted with unease to the daring U.S. military raid on Iran's nuclear facilities with official state media voicing fears that underground Chinese nuclear sites are vulnerable to similar strikes, according to a U.S. Air Force think tank report.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched India as a central player in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem, saying the country aims to build technology at home while deploying it worldwide.
Yoon Suk Yeol, the former president who tried to impose martial law upon South Korea in December 2024, was sentenced Thursday by the Seoul District Court to life imprisonment for the insurrection.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison for his brief imposition of martial law in a dramatic culmination to the country's biggest political crisis in decades.
China detonated a secret underground nuclear blast in 2020 that was detected by a seismic station in Kazakhstan and was aimed at improving Beijing's nuclear war fighting, according to a senior State Department arms control official.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, 47, announced on Wednesday she will run for the presidency in 2028, expanding the bitter feud between her and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday expressed hopes of deepening her relationship with U.S. President Trump and strengthening cooperation between the two countries in rare earths development and other areas of economic security when she visits Washington next month.
A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university's own innovation.
China controls the critical minerals that underpin America's economy, including materials used in missiles, microchips, electric vehicles and data centers.
Last week, a Hong Kong court imposed a 20-year prison sentence on Jimmy Lai, China's most prominent advocate for freedom of speech and the press.
North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, the latest effort by leader Kim Jong-un to honor the war dead.
