China's trade with North Korea in the first half of 2025 rose about 30 percent from a year earlier, official data showed Friday, indicating a recovery in bilateral economic ties even though Pyongyang ...

With 30,000 more North Korean troops expected to join the frontline, Kim Jong-Un is becoming Russia's closest ally.

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

Weeks after his country was battered by waves of Israeli strikes and the US bombed three of its prized nuclear facilities, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

China and North Korea's close ties date back to the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, and the outbreak of the Korean War in the latter a year later, a conflict in which Chinese troops ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...