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North Korea needs China for survival: Why does Beijing need Pyongyang?

Kim Jong Un now has more room to manoeuvre internationally than he did a decade

How two ceasefires and opening of Hormuz could boost Iran talks

Kim Jong Un, in 2018-19, the meetings in fact achieved very little. Pyongyang continues

South Korea’s ex-President Yoon gets 30 years over drone operation

Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister called Lee’s statement “wise behaviour”, but hopes for a rapprochement

North Korea rapidly expanding nuclear weapons capability, UN watchdog warns

Kim Jong-un](https://www.theguardian.com/world/kim-jong-un), who became leader five years later, North Korea has accelerated

Number of executions in North Korea rose dramatically during Covid – report

Kim Jong-un](https://www.theguardian.com/world/kim-jong-un). The number of documented cases of executions and death

Kim praises North Korean soldiers who blew themselves up to evade Ukraine capture

Kim Jong-un has praised North Korean soldiers who blew themselves up with grenades in order

Remains of US soldier who went missing in Korean war laid to rest after 75 years

Kim Jong-un. And one month after that summit, North Korea sent the US more

Men in the mirror: Trump and Xi’s suits put ‘chameleon effect’ to test in Beijing

Kim Jong-un](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/china-military-parade-xi-jinping-appears-with-vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un). After initial talks, perhaps the wardrobe mirroring was working