Russia has been forced to turn to North Korea for help topping up dwindling military supplies in a fresh blow to Vladimir Putin. According to logistics data analysis by the Kyiv School of Economics Institute,

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has rebuffed outreach by South Korea’s new liberal government, saying that North Korea has no interests in talks with South Korea, no matter what proposal its rival offers.

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya shared concerns over North Korea's growing military ties with Russia among others, and agreed to work together with the United States,

Trump-Kim relations aren't dead, says high ranking official Kim Yo Jong — but if denuclearization is on the table, Pyongyang says don’t bother picking up the phone.

Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Pyongyang has no interest in ‘any policy or proposal put forward by Seoul’ - Anadolu Ajansı

The North Korean leader’s influential sister, Kim Yo Jong, dismissed efforts by South Korea’s new president to improve relations and said there is no interest in restarting talks with Seoul, in the first remarks directed at the South’s Administration that took office last month.

A North Korean man crossed the DMZ on foot before midnight Thursday, asking South Korean troops for help in a rare defection through the fortified border.