White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Monday walked back Donald Trump's claim that Melania Trump and Kim Jong Un 'got to know' on another.

North Korea has been left begging for extra cash from Chinese backers after its missile test sight turned beach resort has been delayed again. The site was originally meant to be finished this April.

The US President sacked his hawkish foreign policy adviser last week, revealing deep divisions on major foreign policy issues including nuclear talks with Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rode a white horse up sacred mountain Mount Paektu in Ryanggang on his second symbolic visit in less than two months, in photos released on Wednesday.

Jeffrey Lewis, an nuclear expert from California, has warned that Trump's volatile relationship with Kim Jong-un could plunge the world into a nuclear crisis if North Korea restarts testing nukes.

North Korea has not yet confirmed any cases of the coronavirus, formally known COVID-19, but has closed the land border with China, where 254 people died yesterday from the outbreak.

Presidential 2020 hopeful Bernie Sanders said he would use military force if warranted, both to protect US interests and to support its allies. He also said he would use force if China attacked Taiwan.

North Korea maintains it has no confirmed cases of COVID-19, despite tens of thousands of cases in neighbouring China and South Korea.

A Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile is launched in Pyongyang, North Korea on April 14, in the latest of a number of weapon launches from the country. The image was shared by North Korea.

Kim Jong Un failed to attend the ceremony at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, despite many of his senior officials appearing at the deeply significant wreath laying ceremony on Wednesday.

A new book claims that the leader of North Korea sees himself as John F. Kennedy and his wife Ri Sol Ju as the parallel of Jackie Kennedy.

The North Korean dictator, 36, who was last seen in public on April 11, has been reported to have died by a Hong Kong Satellite Television director.

The 'Supreme Leader' of this impoverished country boards his beloved train by means of a ramp covered with a red carpet.

JACK DOYLE: The Cabinet Room in No 10 has two clocks. The more prominent one sits on a mantelpiece behind the Prime Minister's chair. The other was installed on the table opposite.

JACK DOYLE: IN a burst of optimism characteristic of his leadership campaign, Boris Johnson insists he would break the Brexit deadlock and honour the result of the referendum.

Throughout the campaign, Tory staff out on the road with Mr Johnson were always more optimistic than those based in London, because they saw at first hand the reception he got from the public.

Trump allowed in a tweet that the claim may not be accurate. If true, though, he said, it would be the biggest political scandal in modern American history.

The president poured gasoline on an already roaring political bonfire, suggesting he believes the FBI planted 'at least one' spy in his campaign in order to derail his White Houe aspirations.

An FBI informant was acting as 'secret spy' in the Trump election campaign, but he was not planted. A retired professor working for the Government met with three Trump aides in 2016.

Former Cambridge University professor Stefan Halper met with two Trump advisers suspected of dealing with the Russians in 2016, prompting claims he was acting as an FBI agent.

President Trump is demanding his Justice Department examine whether his 2016 presidential campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled' by the FBI, he announced on Sunday.

Following Trump's demand that the DOJ investigate his allegation that the Obama administration's FBI 'infiltrated or surveilled' his 2016 campaign, the agency said it will formally probe those claims.

There was at least one additional 'informant' who tried to infiltrate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it was revealed by a former aide Michael Caputo, who has long Russia ties.

Top intelligence agency officials will brief Republican lawmakers on Thursday on a confidential FBI source who acted as an informant on the Trump presidential campaign.

The tweets were the US President's latest attempt to use reports that an FBI informant met with three of his campaign advisers to accuse the bureau of pursuing political ends.

'SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!' the president tweeted on Wednesday, gloating that it could be a comeuuppance for a partisan FBI that is investigating him.

President Donald Trump volleyed another attack at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, saying he was 'not happy' about what he termed 'spying' on his presidential campaign.

An impromptu conversation at a cocktail party could be behind the assertion from former Trump aide Michael Caputo that there was another informant sniffing around the campaign.

'Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal,' Trump tweeted Thursday.

Donald Trump hit back at James Comey again on Thursday morning as the fired FBI director entered a new war of words over the way the law enforcement agency operated under Comey's leadership.

Senior lawmakers attended classified briefings with intelligence officials on the FBI's probe of Russia's role in the 2016 election.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting for complete secrecy in his probe into Russia's role in the election and his arguments hint that his investigation is growing across multiple fronts.

Trump claims Democrats are splitting hairs in the semantics of determining whether the FBI used a 'spy' or an 'informant' to keep tabs on his presidential campaign.

President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on former President Barack Obama, criticising his predecessor's lack of action over 'so-called Russian meddling'.

Trump said hopped on a report that put the tab for the investigation that he called the 'Russian hoax' at $17 million.

Donald Trump renewed his 'spygate' attacks by parroting claims on Fox that shamed agents Strzok and Page were hiring 'spies' to work on his campaign as early as December 2015.

Jeff Sessions was speaking ahead of the inspector general's report on the Clinton email investigation, which is expected to blame 'insubordinate' James Comey.

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.

Manafort was booked into Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia at 8.22pm on Friday, after a federal judge revoked his bond ahead of a trial scheduled for September.

Crystal Mason, a 43-year-old tax fraud convict and mother-of-two, voted in the 2016 election while on supervised release - unaware that she was ineligible under a Texas law.

The ex Ukip leader said reports that special prosecutor Robert Mueller was investigating him and Ukip donor Arron Banks over links to Moscow were 'hysterical'.

In his upcoming book The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President, detailing his time White House, Sean Spicer says DHS officials made the comments when Clinton was expected to win.

A dozen Russian intelligence officers are facing new U.S. federal indictments alleging they hacked into American computers with the intention of interfering with the 2016 election.

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is siding with the intelligence community against his ex-boss, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.

President Donald Trump is taking a much tougher line on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a new television interview than he did just days ago in Helsinki at Putin's side.

'So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign?,' Trump tweeted on Sunday evening.

William McRaven, commander of the raid condemned Trump for revoking the security clearance of ex-CIA chief John Brennan saying the spy was 'of unparalleled integrity'.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he only knew about payments to a porn star and Playboy model 'later' and they were fully legal because no campaign funds were used.

Former Donald Trump campaign foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos was sentenced to two weeks in jail Friday for lying to the FBI during the Russia probe.

George Papadopoulos. who tired to arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, said his testimony could help prove collusion.