"korean-peninsula"

Xi Jinping is set to visit North Korea for the first time in nearly seven years to meet Kim Jong Un. The talks aim to strengthen China–North Korea ties amid shifting alliances involving Russia, nuclear policy concerns, and regional geopolitical competition

North Korea’s defence minister warned Pyongyang would exercise its “self-defence” right if provoked during upcoming US–South Korea military drills. He called the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise a “direct provocation” and “real threat” to stability on the Korean Peninsula.

Latest comments come amid heightened animosities over North's recent disclosure of nuclear facility, its continuation of missile tests

DMZ is a buffer zone dividing North and South Korea established on July 27, 1953, when the Armistice Agreement was signed during the Korean War

During the event, newly developed strategic weapons and other military weapons were on display.