North Korea Nuclear State

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  Nuclear-Armed State Status Permanently Enshrined, Irreversible: North Korea

  North Korea said its status as a nuclear-armed state is "permanently enshrined" in its law and "irreversible", state media reported Monday, condemning the United States for demanding its denuclearisation.

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  Trump-Kim Jong Un Ties "Not Bad", US Must Accept New Nuke Reality: North Korea

  -North Korea said on Tuesday the United States must accept that reality has changed since the countries' summit meetings in the past, and no future dialogue would end its nuclear programme, state media KCNA reported.

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  North Korea's Warship Launched After Botched First Attempt

  North Korea has launched a warship that was damaged in May upon its attempted first launch, state media KCNA reported on Friday.

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  North Korea Says US Golden Dome Plan Is "Nuclear War Scenario"

  North Korea's foreign ministry has criticised the U.S. Golden Dome missile defense shield project as a "very dangerous threatening initiative", state media said on Tuesday.

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  North Korea Says Its Status As A Nuclear Weapons State Can Never Be Reversed

  The comments, which state news agency KCNA said were issued on Tuesday, were likely a response to a joint statement by the foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and the United States made on the sidelines of a NATO meeting last week.

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  North Korea Held "Strategic Cruise Missile" Launch Drill This Week: Report

  North Korea carried out a test-launch of its strategic cruise missiles in the Yellow Sea this week, Pyongyang's state media reported Friday, in a drill that sought to demonstrate the prowess of its "state nuclear deterrence".

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  North Korea's Kim Jong Un Call For "Toughest" US Strategy At Key Party Meet

  North Korea will launch its "toughest" ever strategy to counter the United States, state media said Sunday, reporting on a key year-end party meeting overseen by leader Kim Jong Un.

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  North Korea's Kim Accuses US Of Escalating Tensions, Warns Of Nuclear War

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of ramping up tension and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has never faced such risks of nuclear war as now, state media KCNA said on Friday.

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  "South Korea's Yoon Raised Risk Of Nuclear War": North Korea

  North Korean state media released a white paper on Sunday accusing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol of exposing his country to the danger of nuclear war through his policies toward the North.

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  North Korea's Kim Jong Un Threatens Use Of Nuclear Weapons If Attacked

  North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said his forces would use nuclear weapons "without hesitation" if Pyongyang's territory was attacked by the South and its ally the United States, state media reported on Friday.

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  North Korea Publicly Discloses Uranium Enrichment Facility For 1st Time

  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for increasing the number of centrifuges for uranium enrichment in order to increase its nuclear weapons for self-defence, the state media said on Friday.

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  Kim Jong Un Says North Korea To Increase Number Of Nuclear Weapons

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country is now implementing a nuclear force construction policy to increase the number of nuclear weapons "exponentially," state media KCNA said on Tuesday.

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  North Korea Wants To Restart Nuclear Talks If Trump Wins, Says Ex-Diplomat

  North Korea wants to reopen nuclear talks with the United States if Donald Trump is re-elected as president and is working to devise a new negotiating strategy, a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea told Reuters.

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  North Korean Hackers Trying To Steal Military Secrets, Say US, Allies

  North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber espionage campaign to try to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons programme, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday

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  Explained: India Has More Nukes Than Pak, But China Races Ahead

  In 2023, the global nuclear landscape was characterised by significant developments among the nine nuclear-armed states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel.