Kim Jong Un says North Korea can completely destroy South Korea if it feels threatened, and he refuses to engage with Seoul.

SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he would focus on expanding his country's nuclear arsenal and that prospects for improving relations with the US rested entirely on Washington's attitude,

Andrei Lankov (pic), a prominent Russian scholar on North Korea who teaches at a Seoul university, said he was expelled from Latvia after being detai­ned during a lecture in the country's capital.

The U.S. and South Korean militaries say they will conduct their annual springtime exercises next month to bolster their combined defense posture amid a deepening diplomatic freeze with nuclear-armed North Korea.

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said Pyongyang has no reason not to get along with the United States if Washington withdraws its hostile policy against the North, but rejected Seoul's overtures for talks as "deceptive," according to the North's state media Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter Ju Ae allegedly designated as potential successor while serving as missile general director, intelligence sources report.

A Russian professor specializing in Korean studies and teaching at a South Korean university, Andrey Lankov, was detained by police in Latvia, where he was giving a lecture on North Korea, Russian media has reported.