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

A potential meeting between North Korea and the United States will only remain a "hope" for Washington if it sticks to its "failed past," the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Tuesday.

A day after releasing a statement rejecting the South Korean government’s dialogue approach, Pyongyang sent a message to Washington on its baseline for talks.

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

The slashing of support for Voice of America and Radio Free Asia has seen foreign broadcasts into North Korea drop by as much as 80 per cent.

(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.

An Arizona woman has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison for participating in a fraud scheme that helped give remote jobs to North Korean information technology specialists at over 300 companies in the United States,

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,