Hosting the Olympics could be seen as an opportunity to upgrade the country's infrastructure or bring in more tourists from all over the globe. However, the event comes with a hefty price tag, as Korea has spent 13 billion dollars to host the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics including $1.5 billion in erecting state-of-the-art stadia used for the 17-day sporting event.

North Korea will send one of its highest ranking figures, General Kim Yong-chol, to the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Gen Kim was the North's intelligence chief, and is believed to have plotted several attacks on South Korea. North Korea's attendance at the Winter Olympics is seen as a thaw in tense relations between the two Koreas.

North Korea said Thursday it will send a high-level delegation to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics' closing ceremony, Seoul officials said. Kim Yong-chol, head of the ruling party's United Front Department, will lead the eight-member delegation for a three-day trip that will start Sunday, according to Seoul's unification ministry.

As North Korea sends a large delegation to attend the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, almost nothing has attracted more attention than the so-called “army of beauties,” a group of hundreds of singing and choreographed young women, who many have likened to cheerleaders. A new interview with a former cheerleader gives a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the group.

Unit 684 was supposed to be a top-secret assassination squad tasked with attacking the residence of North Korea's then leader Kim Il Sung. But the 1968 experiment to create a crack team of would-be assassins ended in disaster.

"My job as chef diplomat is to ensure that the North Koreans know, we keep our channels open," Tillerson told the CBS news show "60 Minutes."

From their hilltop checkpoint, the soldiers who guard South Korea's border can see for miles across the Demilitarized Zone, to a small city in the distance on the north side. This tidy collection of high-rises and low-slung buildings is surrounded by agricultural fields. North Koreans call the place Kijong-dong, or Peace Village. The multinational troops on the South Korean side have a different name for it. Propaganda Village.

North Korea has allowed songs from the South to be played in public for the first time in years, state media said Saturday, as a thaw in usually frosty ties gains momentum thanks to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. A North Korean band “played several southern songs” when they performed before party officials and artists in Pyongyang on Friday, the KCNA news agency said.

Japan has reported a new suspected sanctions violation by North Korea to the U.N. Security Council after spotting an apparent cargo transfer between a Belize-registered tanker and a North Korean one. Japan's foreign ministry said a military patrol plane observed the apparent transfer in the East China Sea early Tuesday. "Following a comprehensive assessment, the Government of Japan strongly suspects that they conducted ship-to-ship transfers banned" by UN Security Council resolutions, the ministry said in a statement late Wednesday.

South Korea has approved spending $2.6 million to cover North Korea's costs at the Winter Olympics. Senior government officials met on Wednesday to approve the budget that will pay for hosting North Korea's delegation, including 200 cheerleaders, a 137-piece orchestra, and 22 athletes. The South will cover the cost of 424 North Koreans' food, Olympics entrance fees, transportation and accommodation, with most of the delegates staying in five-star hotels in Seoul.

Blaming Beijing for devastating American steel and aluminum businesses, Trump said he was “thinking about all choices,” including taxes and amounts. Trump as of late got two Commerce Department reports concerning affirmed Chinese appropriations for steel and aluminum sends out – materials that are imperative for enterprises from development to cars.

North Korea’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong-un, extended an extremely rare invitation to a foreign head of state on Saturday, using the diplomatic opening created by the Olympics in South Korea to ask its leader, President Moon Jae-in, to visit the North for a summit meeting. Mr. Kim’s unusual invitation, which was received by Mr. Moon with both caution and optimism, was the latest sign of growing closeness between the two rival governments after an exceptionally tense period over the North’s nuclear weapons program.

With the Winter Olympics just days away, North and South Korean athletes are preparing to march side by side in Seoul, but the smiles, handshakes and blue and white unity flag mask the ongoing tensions between the two nations. The last time the Olympics took place on Korean soil, the two nations’ decades-long dispute resulted in the loss of 115 innocent lives.

A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn’t be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse.

A FIRE broke out close to the athlete’s village at the South Korea Olympic Games. Social media pictures show smoke pouring from an under-construction apartment block in Gangneung. Journalists…

The regime in Pyongyang has sent hundreds of programmers to other countries. Their mission: Make money by any means necessary.

North Korea used the Berlin embassy to obtain technology and equipment for its nuclear program, said on Monday the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, as reported by the German public broadcaster DW. “We determined that procurement activities were taking place there, from our perspective with an eye on the missile program, as well as the nuclear program to some extent,” the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen, told NDR.

A pair of smiling North Korean skaters carried out lifts, death spirals and other difficult moves during practices ahead of the Winter Olympics, drawing applause from South Korean spectators at Gangneung Ice Arena on Saturday. The duo, Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik, is the focus of intense media attention as they were the only North Korean athletes who were initially qualified to compete in the Pyeongchang Games before their Olympic committee missed a confirmation deadline.

North Korea has supplied weapons to Syria and Myanmar, according to a confidential report by independent United Nations monitors which also said Pyongyang violated UN sanctions to earn nearly $200m in 2017.

When Senator Tammy Duckworth returned from a recent trip to South Korea and Japan, she brought back a sobering message: “Americans simply are not in touch with just how close we are to war on the Korean peninsula.” In a speech at Georgetown University, she laid out the U.S. military maneuvers over the past several months—including a nuclear-powered submarine heading to South Korea, the movement of three aircraft carriers to the Western Pacific...