Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

“North Korea is now a more important ally for Russia than Iran or China,” said Oleg Ignatov, senior Russia analyst for Crisis Group.

While its relations with China are treading rough waters, North Korea and Russia are closer than ever before. The first country that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un chose to visit after the end of ...

“China has noticed that North Korea's controls on Chinese cultural content have relaxed as the country harshly cracks down on South Korean content,” a source told Daily NK. There are signs ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - As close as lips and teeth. Linked by mountains and rivers. A friendship worth more than all the gold in the world. The clichés come fast when China and North Korea, two ...

Relations might actually improve and, if they do, relations between China and North Korea could be expected to remain distant and perhaps even continue to worsen. If that happens, Washington could be ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the coastal city of Wonsan on Saturday, where ...

China, which shares a porous border with North Korea, is North Korea’s economic pipeline and its last major diplomatic ally. More than 90% of North Korea’s external trade has been with China.

Xi said China intended to “successfully defend, consolidate and develop” the bilateral relations, Yonhap said. North Korea heavily relies on China for its food, arms and fuel. Filed under ...

President Trump acknowledged the complexity and political sensitivity of the relationship between China and North Korea this week after Chinese President Xi Jinping explained the countries ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hailed Beijing’s “strategically valuable” relations with Moscow as he met his Russian ...

In the early 1990s, though, geopolitical shifts inevitably brought fundamental changes to China-North Korea relations. China’s reform and opening up and the establishment of diplomatic relations ...