The sentence is one of the largest handed down to a U.S. national for their role in the North Korean government-linked scheme.

There has been cautious optimism in the South that the North may respond positively and may even show willingness to re-engage in dialogue.

A woman in Arizona was sentenced Thursday to more than 8 years in prison for orchestrating a complex fraud scheme to help North Korean cyber operatives pose as Americans and obtain remote IT jobs at hundreds of US companies,

Christina Marie Chapman of Arizona received a lengthy sentence for helping North Korean IT workers get jobs at American companies through an identity theft scheme.

Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Monday that Pyongyang had "no interest" in efforts by Seoul to improve relations.

Russia has depleted its once-vast stockpiles of Soviet-era weaponry during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with the flow of goods from military storage facilities to the front-line now back down to pre-2022 levels.

NORTH Korea has welcomed its first tourists to its ghostly new “Benidorm” beach resort. But the initial batch of visitors have reported that they are followed everywhere and their