China-North Korea relations have significantly cooled this year as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to office.

The top diplomats of Korea and China reaffirmed efforts to advance bilateral ties in a phone conversation Tuesday, Seoul's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, their first discussion following a botched martial law imposition in Korea on Dec.

Andrei Lankov is a historian of North Korea at Kookmin University, Seoul. He is the author of The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. In 2017, the highly militarized regime of Kim Jong Un of North Korea found itself confronting a rare coalition of China,

North Korea has warned its trading officials in China to guard against information leaks amid concerns over Chinese surveillance.

In Trump-led armistice talks, the Hermit Kingdom may want a seat at the table.

China’s navigation of the Russia–North Korea alliance applies lessons learnt from the Korean War to harness its strategic advantages without being drawn into another costly confrontation.

If Trump is allowed by Elon Musk to stick to his guns, he can apply to China the principle he announced for his domestic opponents: “Success will be our retribution.”

The officials added that Russia has “de facto accepted North Korea as a nuclear weapon state.” China, meanwhile, is benefiting from Russian know-how, with the two countries working together to ...

South Korea’s Congress passed an impeachment bill for President Yoon Suk Yeol. While the constitutional court of Korea is expected to deliver a final verdict within 180 days, the odds are not in the president’s favor due to his imposition of martial law and adverse public opinion.

President Joe Biden is pushing U.S. national security agencies ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration to devise new strategies to tackle the risky, deepening ties among Russia, Iran, North Korea and China,

The US for many years has been concerned about cooperation among the four countries. Coordination has accelerated between the countries in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.