North Korea on Tuesday said the United States must recognize it as a nuclear weapons state if bilateral talks are to resume.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country would achieve victory in "anti-imperalist, anti-U.S." battles.

A day after releasing a statement rejecting the South Korean government’s dialogue approach, Pyongyang sent a message to Washington on its baseline for talks.

Congress should renew the North Korean Human Rights Act, but also urgently exert pressure on the State Department to preserve North Korea funding. It is vital to sustain programs that maintain scrutiny on a government that prefers operating in the dark and instead give North Koreans a window to the outside world.

‌Victor Cha and Ellen Kim, “Between A Rock and a Hard Place: South Korea’s Strategic Dilemmas with China and the United States,” Asia Policy, no. 21 (2016): 101–22.

(Reuters) -The United States Department of the Treasury on Thursday issued sanctions against three individuals and a company based in North Korea and China, the department said on its website.

An Arizona woman has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison for participating in a fraud scheme that helped give remote jobs to North Korean information technology specialists at over 300 companies in the United States,

The United States announced a package of actions Thursday to disrupt North Korea's illicit schemes to generate revenue for its nuclear and missile programs, including offering rewards for North Koreans involved in the schemes,