Topic: Kim Song

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for his country's relationship with Russia to reach a "new high level," state media reported Friday, amid international concern over a potential arms deal.

The Kremlin said Saturday is it checking into reports that a controversial intercontinental ballistic missile fired by North Korea this week landed in its territorial waters, official media reported.

North Korea's U.N. envoy defended the regime's intercontinental ballistic missile launch this week, claiming it was an exercise in self-defense and blaming the United States for provoking tensions.

U.N. member nations Thursday voted overwhelmingly to adopt a draft resolution that calls for a cease-fire in Ukraine.

North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations blamed the "growing hostility" of the United States for his regime's nuclear weapons and warned that U.S.-South Korea naval exercises could lead to the "brink of war."

North Korea fired an unidentified projectile eastward into the Sea of Japan at 6:40 a.m. local time Tuesday, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

North Korea's grain production reached a 10-year low in 2018, Pyongyang said in its first Voluntary National Review submitted to the United Nations on Tuesday.

North Korea's foreign ministry said Friday Ri Ryong Nam, 61, a former trade minister, has been selected to the top diplomatic post in Beijing.

South Korea has opted out of co-sponsoring a North Korean human rights bill at the United Nations as the top North Korean diplomat in New York condemned the resolution as a fabrication.

North Korea's nuclear activities continue to be an issue of "serious concern" and the country must comply with obligations under United Nations Security Council resolutions, the International Atomic Energy Agency says.