North Korean state media remained silent on Wednesday, widely believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This contrasts with recent efforts to cultivate his cult of personality while distancing him from his predecessors.

Kim Jong Un warned that North Korea ’s rivals could not ignore its new hypersonic ballistic missile, which was tested while US secretary of state Antony Blinken was visiting South Korea on Monday.

Dictator Kim Jong-un has claimed his hypersonic missile flew 930 miles at 12 times the speed of sound before landing in the waters between the Korean Penisula and Japan

Footage has surfaced on social media showing North Korean M1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzers on the front lines in Ukraine. According to experts, these images signal the increasingly dire state of Russian artillery,

North Korea’s threat to their neighbors to the south, indeed much of the rest of the region, is often closely associated with their nuclear weapons program. If we’re lucky, some analyst will remind us that North Korea’s biological and chemical weapons program is far older,