China's Premier Li Qiang plans to visit North Korea this week, marking the highest-level Chinese visit since 2019.

It needs the United States for defense and has spent billions building factories in America. But a Trump trade deal this week with China could erase a Korean edge in the U.S. market.

North Korea said on Saturday that denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, which South Korea said will be discussed in a summit with China later that day, is an unrealisable "pipe dream," according to state media KCNA.

China sent fighter jets to intercept a Canadian air force plane tracking North Korean ships breaching U.N. sanctions.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung emphasized the pivotal roles of the US and China in achieving peace on the Korean Pe

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation during talks in Beijing after a

Meanwhile, North Korean authorities are exporting various minerals to China, the source said, including coal, iron ore, molybdenum, zinc, copper and gold. Trading companies that export minerals are mostly large entities under powerful agencies such as the party’s Central Committee or the military.

Trump is in South Korea, the final stop of his Asia tour, where he says he expects to nail down a "good deal for both" China and the U.S. with Xi Jinping.

Hackers have pilfered billions of dollars by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies, the report found.

North Korea has held a reception in Beijing to mark the 75th anniversary of Chinese soldiers' participation in the 1950-53 Korean War, vowing to develop its friendly ties with China, state media reported Tuesday.