North Korea on Tuesday said the United States must recognize it as a nuclear weapons state if bilateral talks are to resume.

Congress should renew the North Korean Human Rights Act, but also urgently exert pressure on the State Department to preserve North Korea funding. It is vital to sustain programs that maintain scrutiny on a government that prefers operating in the dark and instead give North Koreans a window to the outside world.

Pyong­yang said the United States must accept that reality has changed since the countries' summit meetings in the past, and no future dialogue would end its nuclear programme, state media KCNA reported.

Arizona resident Christina Chapman must serve 102 months in prison for helping North Koreans to fraudulently get remote positions with U.S. tech firms.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country would achieve victory in "anti-imperalist, anti-U.S." battles.

North Korea has no interest in any policy or proposals for reconciliation from South Korea, the powerful sister of its leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday in the first response to South Korean liberal President Lee Jae Myung's peace overtures.

(Reuters) -The United States Department of the Treasury on Thursday issued sanctions against three individuals and a company based in North Korea and China, the department said on its website.

The United States announced a package of actions Thursday to disrupt North Korea's illicit schemes to generate revenue for its nuclear and missile programs, including offering rewards for North Koreans involved in the schemes,