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Kim Yong-nam (left), North Korea's No. 2 political leader and head of its legislature, has been meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The length of a visit in August raised alarm bells in Washington. (Associated Press/File)

North Korea-Iran nuclear ties probably deep: report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to Beijing this week was preceded by reports that the administration is pushing behind the scenes on China and other North Asian nations to embrace an aggressive sanctions regime that would even ban all oil exports to North Korea. (Associated Press)

U.S. and China divided on North Korea sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, file photo, people watch a TV news program showing North Korea's announcement, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Norea Korea, after H-bomb test, now wants to focus on economy

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

People in Seoul, South Korea, walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility on Jan. 6. (Associated Press)

South Korea announces start of anti-North propaganda broadcasts

By Foster Klug and Hyung-jin - Associated Press

Some argue that Kim Jong-un's appetite for defying the international community is far greater than anything his father showed while presiding over Pyongyang's opaque dictatorship from the mid-1990s until his death in 2011. (Associated Press)

Kim Jong-un hydrogen bomb claim underscores North Korean leader’s volatility

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters before a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test Wednesday, a powerful, self-proclaimed &quot;H-bomb of justice&quot; that would mark a major and unanticipated advance for its still-limited nuclear arsenal. Pyongyang's announcement was met with widespread skepticism, but whatever the North detonated in its fourth nuclear test, another round of tough international sanctions looms for the defiant, impoverished country. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

China holds key to pressing North Korea on nuclear weapons

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

The search for an effective U.S. strategy on North Korea

By The Washington Times

The Search for an Effective U.S. Strategy on North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gestures as he watches a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) ** FILE **

Kim Jong-un declares North Korea ready to stand up to any U.S. threat

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, photo, a man works on the newly painted Taedong Bridge in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is already in high gear as it prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of its ruling party. Shock brigades of soldier-builders are toiling around the clock to paint bridges, build stages and finish high-rise apartments. North Korea’s capital now even has bicycle lanes. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

With a rocket’s red glare? N. Korea gears up for major fete

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

While CIA Director John O. Brennan pushed aside questions about the legitimacy of news reports alleging that deep nuclear and missile cooperation already exists between Iran and North Korea, he stressed that CIA officials are "not going to assume that's not going to happen." (Associated Press)

John Brennan: U.S. watching for nuclear cooperation between Iran, North Korea

By Rowan Scarborough and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A man watches a TV news program reporting South Korea and North Korea reached an agreement, at the Seoul Railway Station, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea halts propaganda broadcasts as Koreas reach deal

By Hyung-jin Kim and Foster Klug - Associated Press

South Korean amy soldiers walk on Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone, near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) ** FILE **

Seoul takes hard line as talks between rival Koreas drag on

By Foster Klug and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean amy soldiers walk on Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone, near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. South Korean and North Korean officials have resumed the second round of their high-level talks in the border village of Panmunjom on Sunday afternoon in an effort to ease mutual tension, South Korea’s presidential office said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Talks between the rival Koreas stretch into a third day

By ERIC TALMADGE and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

South Korean army soldiers adjust barricades set up on Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone, near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. The barricade reads: "Vehicles disapproved." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Rival Koreas hold high-level talks to defuse war fears

By Eric Talmadge and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

A man locks a shutter of his shop after an evacuation order is issued to the residents and visitors at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. South Korea's military fired dozens of shells Thursday at rival North Korea after the North lobbed a single artillery round at a South Korean border town, the South's Defense ministry said. (Kim Seung-doo/Yonhap via AP) KOREA OUT

South Koreans calm despite North Korean threat

By ERIC TALMADGE and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korean army soldiers stood guard near Yeoncheon, South Korea, where a shell fell Thursday. The military retaliated by firing dozens of shells at its rival North Korea. (Associated Press)

North Korea, South Korea exchange artillery fire as rising tensions alarm U.S. officials

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 28, 2015 file photo, North Korean Ambassador to China Ji Jae Ryong speaks at a press conference held at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing. If any hopes have been raised that the progress between the United States and Iran to halt Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons could bring a change in Pyongyang, North Korea has gone out of its way to thwart them. In a flurry of public comments since the deal, the North has been blunt - its nuclear weapons are not a bargaining chip, it is already a member of the nuclear club and if Washington wants to talk, it must recognize the North as such or put an immediate end to its hostile policies toward Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

For North Korea, Iran-style nuclear deal not an option

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this Saturday, June 20, 2015, photo, a notification which reads, “Warning! You can’t connect to this website because it’s in blacklist site" is seen on both a computer screen and on a smartphone screen in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Instagram users in North Korea warned site put on blacklist

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

A South Korean man watches a TV news program showing an image published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015. North Korea said Saturday it has successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in what would be the latest display of the country's advancing military capability. The letters on the screen read &quot;The submarine-launched missile would enable the country to conduct whatever military operation it wants at sea&quot;. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-oon)

North Korea says it tests ballistic missile from submarine

Associated Press