A former U.S. official says North Korea insisted the U.S. agree to pay $2 million in medical costs in 2017 before it released detained American college student Otto Warmbier while he was in a coma

Russian President Vladimir Putin said after his summit with Kim Jong Un Thursday that the North Korean leader is ready to proceed toward denuclearization _ but needs solid security guarantees to do so.

China says it has complained to France after a French warship entered Chinese territorial waters while passing through the Taiwan Strait this month

Putin says Russia supports Kim Jong Un's efforts to normalize North Korea's relations with the United States

Kim Jong Un is in Russia for the first time as North Korea's leader and a much-anticipated summit with President Vladimir Putin

Iran's top diplomat has made public an offer to the U.S. government for a prisoner swap that he says he made six months ago

Iran's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's aim "is to bring us to our knees to talk" _ but that national security adviser John Bolton and U.S. allies in the Mideast want "regime change" and the "disintegration of Iran."

The Trump administration has carved out major exemptions to new sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guard amid fears they may hurt U.S. diplomatic and military cooperation with other countries

A South Korean lawmaker says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's most trusted policy adviser apparently has been removed from one of his posts

A New Hampshire man who smuggled rare lizards from the Philippines to the U.S. by hiding them in socks and placing them inside electronic equipment has pleaded guilty