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"We do not regard (them) as (a) match for our armed forces," she said, referring to South Korea's military.

President Moon met with leader Kim Jong Un four times, and brokered high-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington.

Pyongyang has already carried out several missile launches this month

The reported launches are the first since March by the North, which has not carried out a nuclear test or an intercontinental ballistic missile launch since 2017.

She said he was employing "the gangster-like logic of the US."

Kim Yo Jong is a trusted adviser to her brother and was a key voice when inter-Korean tensions mounted last year.

The case announced Wednesday was the first open action taken against North Korea by the Biden administration.

South Korean media said it was the first time since 1995 that a North Korean leader has sent a New Year card to the country's citizens.

On the campaign trail, Biden said he would not meet with Kim without preconditions and accused Trump of "emboldening" the North Korean leader.

Hyon Song-wol has been spotted accompanying Kim Jong-Un while his wife remains out of the public eye since January and his sister has not been seen by his side recently either.

Kim was sending the US a message that the North's capabilities were improving.

The cavalcade will mark the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party and satellite imagery on the respected 38North website suggests it could be huge.

Pyongyang is subject to a range of restrictions imposed since 2017 that limit its oil imports and ban exports of coal, fish and textiles.

The fisheries official was shot dead on Tuesday by North Korean soldiers.

While localised, the typhoon damage is testing the North's state capacity and resources.

Several analysts have played down suggestions that Kim's health is deteriorating.

The North Korean leader's subsequent appearances are allegedly fake and said to have been previously recorded.

Authorities are to go through households and forcefully confiscate their dogs if they refuse to give them up.

Kim was addressing a conference of veterans on the 67th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended Korean War hostilities.

Pyongyang insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19

Kim and US President Donald Trump first met in Singapore two years ago but talks over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal have been stalled since.

The nuclear-armed North closed its borders in late January as the virus spread in neighbouring China and imposed tough restrictions.

In recent weeks, Pyongyang has issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of Seoul over anti-North leaflets.

Pompeo said he had not yet read the book, 'The Room Where It Happened', which the Trump administration is trying to block from publication.

In a series of denunciations of Seoul, the North rejected an offer it said had come from the South's President Moon Jae-in to send an envoy for talks.

The threat comes just a day before the two-year anniversary of the landmark summit in Singapore where Kim Jong Un shook hands with Donald Trump.

The latest development comes just three days before the two-year anniversary of a landmark summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore.

The North has insisted that Washington offer it new concessions by the end of 2019.

The pair have met three times since June 2018 but with little progress towards denuclearization.

North Korea is set to hold the national conference of primary information workers of the party, for the first time in 18 years, right after the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, Vietnam.