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Kim guides military drill near sea border with South Korea
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has guided a military drill simulating an attack and seizure of a frontline South Korean island, Pyongyang’s...
North Korea committed crimes against humanity, not genocide: UN
The head of a UN inquiry into rights violations in North Korea has found that Pyongyang’s actions, while constituting a crime against humanity, fell...
North Korea threatens strong response to U.S. rights meeting
North Korea says it will respond “very strongly” to a conference in Washington on Tuesday about its widespread human rights abuses and says...
North Korea threatens strong response to US rights meeting
North Korea says it will respond “very strongly” to a conference in Washington on Tuesday about its widespread human rights abuses and says...
Credibility sabotage: North Korea detainee accepts responsibility for his lies
Shin Dong-hyuk — who shot to international fame with the publication of “Escape from Camp 14,” his account of his time served in a North...
North Korea test-fires ‘intelligent’ anti-ship rocket
North Korea has test-fired a new “ultra-precision” intelligent rocket to be deployed across its navy, state media said Saturday, in the latest...
North Korean defector reveals prisoners ate rats to survive in labour camp
A woman has spoken of her year of hell in a North Korean labour camp, where starving prisoners ate rats to survive. Defector Park Ji-hyun says she was...
North Korea rules out new nuclear talks with U.S., promises ‘final doom’
North Korea on Wednesday appeared to rule out any resumption of dialogue with the United States, threatening to react to any US “war of aggression”...
Pyongyang demanded $10 billion for summit: Ex-Seoul leader
Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il repeatedly pushed for summit talks with South Korea before his 2011 death, but also demanded $10 billion and large-scale...
North Korea may be restarting nuke plant as Kim plans Russia trip
North Korea may be attempting to restart its main nuclear bomb fuel reactor after a five-month shutdown, a U.S.
Mickey Mouse and mayonnaise: North Korea has never had it so good
In a small-scale relaxing of North Korea’s rigid isolation, Kim Jong Un is allowing new kinds of Western and American pop culture symbols to appear in...
Mickey Mouse and mayonnaise - North Korea has never had it so good
In a small-scale relaxing of North Korea’s rigid isolation, Kim Jong Un is allowing new kinds of Western and American pop culture symbols to appear in...
Mickey Mouse and mayonnaise - North Korea have never had it so good
In a small-scale relaxing of North Korea’s rigid isolation, Kim Jong Un is allowing new kinds of Western and American pop culture symbols to appear in...
Activist group launches anti-North Korea leaflets despite threats
South Korean activists balloon-launched anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea and threatened on Tuesday to follow them with copies of Hollywood comedy...
N.Korean ‘Camp 14’ gulag survivor admits parts of story untrue
A North Korean gulag survivor whose torture and daring escape were detailed in a best-selling book has admitted that parts of his story are untrue, and...
U.S. ex-officials meet North Korean nuclear chief amid standoff
U.S. academics and former senior officials met with North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator in Singapore on Sunday to get a feel for each other’s...
US ex-officials meet North Korean nuclear chief amid standoff
U.S. academics and former senior officials met with North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator in Singapore on Sunday to get a feel for each other’s...
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un mulls Russia for his world debut
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is looking increasingly likely to visit Russia in his first trip abroad since taking power three years ago, giving the...
U.S. takes aim at North Korea’s remaining financial links
The United States aims to use new sanctions imposed on North Korea over the cyber attack on Sony Pictures to cut off the country’s remaining links...
North Korea ‘developing missile-launching submarine’
Recent satellite images offer fresh evidence of North Korea developing a marine-based missile system that would give the nuclear-armed state a survivable...
Digital infantry: N. Korea doubles size of cyber army to ‘paralyze’ the south
The North Korean military’s “cyber army” has boosted its numbers to 6,000 troops, the South Korean Defense Ministry said on Tuesday,...
Détente: South Korea proposes inter-Korea talks next month
A top South Korean official on Monday offered to hold high-level talks with North Korea in January to discuss “mutual concerns”, including...
N. Korea blames U.S. for Internet shutdown amid Sony hacking row
North Korea has hurled racial slurs against U.S. President Barack Obama while blaming the U.S.
N. Korea threatens strikes on ‘whole U.S. mainland’ over hacking claims
U.S. President Barack Obama is “recklessly” spreading rumors of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyberattack of Sony Pictures, North Korea says, as...
Run-and-gun: Kim Jong Un game spoof ‘Glorious Leader!’ moving forward
The creator of a satirical video game that depicts Kim Jong Un as a gun-toting, unicorn-riding hero has no plans to cancel his zany creation following...
'Catastrophic consequences' over UN rights ruling, N.Korea warns
North Korea’s top military body Sunday warned of “catastrophic consequences” for supporters of the latest United Nations censure on its...
North Korea may be preparing bomb material amid nuclear test threats
New satellite imagery suggests North Korea may be firing up a facility for processing weapons-grade plutonium, as Pyongyang threatened on Thursday that...
UN to hold key vote on North Korea war crimes probe
The United Nations will on Tuesday confront North Korea over its dismal rights record with a key resolution that could compel Pyongyang to answer to charges...
True or false? The North Korean rumor mill is fueled by defectors
The rumors come fast and furious from North Korea, through networks of defectors determined to get out information on the authoritarian, highly insular...
Two Americans released by North Korea land in Washington
Two Americans released from captivity in North Korea returned to the United States Saturday night, landing at a Washington state military base after their...
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