The massive military parade was attended by leaders from over 20 foreign nations, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean President Kim Jong-un met in Russia on Wednesday amid heightened speculations in the West about the meeting’s purpose. Kim expressed his country’s full support to Russian attempts to fight against “hegemony and imperialism”

The visits of Sergey Shoigu and Li Hongzhong indicate that Russia and China are close to North Korea in response to the Biden Administration accelerating the deepening of a trilateral alliance between Washington, Tokyo, and Seoul

DPRK leader Kim Jong Un described the housing project as a cherished and most important undertaking of the government

The military exercises point towards a more aggressive US presence in the Pacific and increasing encirclement of China

South Korean president Moon Jae-in announced that the four parties in the Korean War, which ended in a stalemate in 1953, have agreed “in-principle” to formally declare its end, indicating a major step towards peace

The US has sanctioned two companies based in China for employing North Korean citizens overseas. The US claims that it is implementing UN-backed sanctions

Donald Trump became the first US president to cross the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea. Following a meeting, he and Kim Jong-un decided to resume negotiations between the countries

“Kim Jong-un is interested in denuclearization, all North Korea needs is guarantees of its security and sovereignty,” Putin said

Newsclick Editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha talks about the developments in the aftermath of the Hanoi Summit – between US’s Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

Prabir Purkayastha discusses the changing dynamics and the possibilities that the inter-Korean peace process has augured

An opportunity to have North Korea dismantle its only known source of plutonium was lost as US insisted on maintaining sanctions