North korea
Trump 'offered Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One'
Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump first engaged in a war of words and mutual threats, before an extraordinary diplomatic bromance that featured headline-grabbing...
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North Korea's Kim pledges to strengthen nuclear arsenal
Kim is looking to grab the attention of the incoming Biden administration, analysts say, with his country more isolated than ever after closing its borders to protect itself against the coronavirus pandemic.
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From 'love' to 'thug': Biden win to change US-North Korea dynamic
Donald Trump's bizarre diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang veered from mutual insults and threats of war to "love letters" and the first ever meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader.
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North Koreans rally wearing masks after military parade
Authorities held the rally on Monday at the start of an '80-Day Campaign', a mass mobilisation drive to boost the economy ahead of a ruling party congress in January.
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North Korea’s Kim throws down gauntlet with huge new ICBM: analysts
On Saturday North Korea put a gargantuan new missile on show at a military parade.
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N. Korea's Kim says no coronavirus cases in his country
Pyongyang closed its borders in January to try to protect itself from the disease and regularly said it had no cases.
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North Korea flouting nuclear sanctions: UN report
Pyongyang is subject to a range of restrictions imposed since 2017 that limit its oil imports and ban exports of coal, fish and textiles.
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UN watchdog concerned over N Korea nuclear 'violation'
Among activities during the period since its last report in August 2019, the IAEA said there were 'indications consistent with the production of enriched uranium' at the reported Yongbyon nuclear site.
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Typhoon causes little damage in North Korea: Kim
The official KCNA news agency made no mention of any fatalities and Kim gave an upbeat assessment of the storm's aftermath as he inspected a farming region southwest of Pyongyang.
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KCNA: Kim calls for prevention efforts against coronavirus, looming typhoon
An enlarged meeting of the politburo of the Workers Party took place amid a pandemic that is putting additional pressure on the North Korean economy, battered by recent border closures and flood damage.
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N Korean leader's sister is 'de facto second-in-command' - S Korean lawmaker
Kim Yo Jong is the leader’s only close relative with a public role in politics, recently spearheading a new, tougher campaign to put pressure on South Korea.
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North Korea's Kim inspects flood relief; worry grows about crops
Heavy rain across the Korean peninsula has brought flooding to both North and South Korea in recent days, and concern is growing about damage to North Korean crops and its potential impact on food supplies.
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North Korea declares emergency in border town over first suspected COVID-19 case
North Korea was for the first time reporting a suspected coronavirus case, a person suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus who returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border.
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North Korean leader's sister says another summit unlikely
Kim said in her personal opinion, there is unlikely to be another summit between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump this year but “a surprise thing may still happen".
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Kim signals North Korea to keep border closed
The nuclear-armed North closed its borders in late January as the virus spread in neighbouring China and imposed tough restrictions that put thousands of its people into isolation.
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S. Korea, US mark 70th anniversary of Korean War
The anniversary comes as inter-Korean ties remain in a deep freeze following a rapid rapprochement in 2018 that brought three summits between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in.
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North Korea's Kim suspends military plans against South: KCNA
The apparently conciliatory moves by Pyongyang are unusual, and come after analysts said it was seeking to manufacture a crisis on the peninsula in an effort to extract concessions.
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Kim Yo Jong: North Korean leader's increasingly powerful sister
Kim Yo Jong is one of her brother's most trusted advisers and among the most powerful women in the isolated regime.
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North Korea blows up liaison office on its side of border with South
This comes after Pyongyang threatened to take action if defector groups push ahead with their campaign to send propaganda leaflets into North Korea.
