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North Korea detain Australian man Alek Sigley

Alek Sigley (left), 29, who is believed to be the only Australian living in North Korea, went missing this week after a series of posts on social media about life in the mysterious capital of Pyongyang.




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Route Kim Jong-un used to ship two Mercedes to North Korea revealed

Starting in Rotterdam, the two Maybach S600s took a four-month route across five countries before it is thought they were flown to North Korea from Russia, before Kim Jong-un took a ride in one (pictured).




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Chinese tech giant Huawei 'helped North Korea build a wireless network'

The Beijing-backed company, which has been blacklisted in the U.S. over fears of its possible role in Chinese espionage, is said to have worked on a range of projects in the secretive state over eight years.




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North Korea fires two 'new' short-range ballistic missiles 155 miles into the sea

The two missiles were launched from the coastal city of Wonsan into the Sea of Japan early on Wednesday, almost exactly a week after a similar test in the same location (file image).




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John Bolton insists latest North Korea rocket tests did NOT violate missile pledge

US national security adviser John Bolton has said that North Korea's latest missile tests did not violate pledges made by the state to Donald Trump. Short-range missiles were launched on Tuesday.




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North Korea launches more missiles and threatens 'heavy price' over military drills

Two projectiles, believed to be short-range ballistic missiles, were fired from South Hwanghae province Tuesday, before North Korea issued a statement condemning joint US-South Korea military drills.




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Kim Jong-un says North Korea's latest missile tests were 'a warning' to US and South Korea

Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the test of a 'new-type tactical guided weapon' on Tuesday, North Korean state media said, which was meant as 'a warning' to the US and South Korea.




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Trump touts deal with South Korea that will result in it paying 'a lot more money' for protection

Donald Trump said South Korea has agreed to pay the U.S. 'a lot more money' for protection after North Korea's Kim Jong-Un conducted a series of missile tests over the past two weeks.




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North Korea fire two missiles into the sea off its eastern coast

The latest launch comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had received a 'very beautiful letter' from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.




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Chuckling Kim Jong Un breaks into a smile as he watches the test firing of North Korea's new weapon 

North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system today, seen as an attempt to build leverage ahead of negotiations with the United States.




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Japan warns North Korea now has miniaturized nukes

Japan's military last year said it was 'possible' that North Korea had achieved miniaturisation, but Tokyo now appears to have upgraded its assessment (pictured, a recent North Korean weapons test).




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North Korean uranium plant 'is leaking radioactive waste into a nearby river'

Jacob Bogle, a researcher from the US, analysed satellite images of North Korea taken since 2003 and found that a uranium plant at Pyongsan appears to be leaking waste into a nearby river.




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Officials claim North Korea has test fired TWO ballistic missiles over the Sea of Japan

The Coast Guard says the short-range projectiles did not reach Japanese waters or the  Exclusive Economic Zone.




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Kim Jong Un watches as North Korea test fires two ballistic missiles

The North Korean leader is reported to have personally overseen the test of the ballistic missiles. North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released photos of the test, Sunday.




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Satellite photos show North Korea may be building a new submarine

Images of the Sinpo South Shipyard suggest circumstantial evidence of the construction of a new ballistic missile submarine, according to the report on Wednesday.




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Japanese man held hostage in North Korea for 24 years was forced to train spies

Kaoru Hasuike and his girlfriend Yukiko spent 24 years as captives in North Korea, where he was forced to work training spies after being kidnapped from a Japanese beach.




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North Korea could have up to 40 nuclear weapons by the end of the year

Kim Jong-un will likely have 40 nukes by 2020, researchers from Sweden say, around a dozen more than this time last year - meaning he has continued to build them despite talks with the US.




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John Bolton behind closed doors: Trump's efforts with Iran and North Korea are 'doomed to failure'

John Bolton bashed any future talks between Trump and North Korea and Iran, claiming they are 'doomed to failure.' 'He ripped Trump, without using his name, several times,' one attendee said.




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North Korea could re-open tourist resort near the DMZ

The Mount Kumgang resort was opened in 1998 to encourage cross-border tourism but the arrangement ended in acrimony when a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a soldier in 2008.




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'It's a huge achievement just to return safely': Son Heung-min opens up on 'aggressive' Korean derby

The historic encounter at the Kim II-Sung Stadium in Pyongyang saw South Korean spectators and journalists banned from attending the game, while there was also no live broadcast of the match.




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Bolton launches attack on Trump's North Korea policy slamming 'friendly notes and photo ops'

John Bolton ripped apart Donald Trump's efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula as ineffective, claiming it will get worse with time. 'North Korea isn't our friend and never will be,' Bolton said.




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Australian warship in Asia ordered to move to waters off coast of North Korea to support UN sanction

The order came as North Korea warned of 'undesirable consequences' after the US seized one of its sanction-breaking cargo ships.




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Kim Jong-Un visits medical factory in North Korea says it is running out of patience with the US

Kim Jong Un visited the country's Myohyangsan Medical Appliances Factory just as North Korean official released a statement on tense US relations to secure nuclear negotiation, yesterday.




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Tour company offers St Patrick's Day booze-up in North Korea

Smiling Grape Adventure Tours, based in Cambridgeshire, will take guests to Pyongyang's best pubs, bars and microbreweries in March 2020.




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U.S. breaks off talks with South Korea over cost of military presence

Talks in Seoul broke down after both sides alleged a failure to compromise on the cost of keeping 28,500 troops on the peninsula as a deterrent to North Korea. Pictured: U.S. negotiator James DeHart.




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North Korean leader Kim Jong un is surrounded by identikit army girls

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the women's company under Unit 5492 of the Korean People's Army stationed at the country's southwestern coast.




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Was North Korea really behind the hacking of Sony?

The FBI pinned the blame for the 2014 Sony hack on North Korea, but doubts have been raised over the evidence, while a former bureau informant claims to have evidence it actually came from Russia.




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Top US diplomat rejects North Korea's deadline and says Washington will not bow to threats

US special representative Stephen Biegun told reporters in Seoul that the US had heard the North's 'hostile, negative and unnecessary' demands but would not work to the arbitrary deadline.




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North Korean capital's 'strangely beautiful' architecture revealed in new book Model City Pyongyang

New book Model City Pyongyang says the city 'embodies the dream of total planning, to which every architect secretly aspires; jettisoning planning restrictions and space ratio guidelines'.




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Briton recruited aged 14 into 'cult' that worships North Korean dictators has been kicked out

Alex Meads, now 23, was excommunicated by the London-based Korean Friendship Association's 'paranoid' chairman, Dermot Hudson, earlier this year.




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Trump jokes maybe he'll get a 'beautiful vase' after North Korea promises 'Christmas gift'

Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed aside threats of a Christmas surprise from North Korea, joking maybe he would get a 'beautiful vase' from Kim Jong Un instead of a missile test. 




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US flies spy planes over Korean Peninsula amid concerns over Pyongyang's promised 'Christmas gift'

Four aircraft are believed to have to have made the unusual move of flying missions over and around the Korean Peninsula between Tuesday and early Wednesday at the same time.




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North Korea's 'Christmas surprise' fails to materialise as US spy planes swarm over the peninsula

The dictatorship has threatened to take 'unspecified action' if sanctions are not lifted by 2020. Four US planes flew over the North Korean peninsula on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.




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North Korean 'ghost boat' washes ashore in Japan

Police made the discovery in the wooden boat's stem around 9:30 am (00:30 GMT) on Saturday on Sado island, which is off the coast of Japan's northwestern prefecture of Niigata




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Microsoft seizes control of 50 websites used by a North Korea-linked hacking group

The technology giant launched a case in the US District Court against the group code named Thallium to try and stop their operations that were specifically targeting certain groups.




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North Korea will 'almost certainly' test a long-range nuke in the New Year, expert warns

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.




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North Korea releases footage of Kim Jong-un galloping up Mount Paektu on a white horse

North Korea has released an hour-long documentary charting Kim Jong-un's two trips up the country's sacred Mount Paektu last year, apparently in place of an anticipated New Year address by the dictator.




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North Korean mother facing jail for saving children from fire instead of portraits of Kim family

A mother-of-two from North Korea is under investigation by the Ministry of State Security after she saved her children from a fire but failed to rescue portraits of the country's leaders.




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From North Korea to sunny South Africa via Israel: The world's most unusual ski resorts revealed

If you want to take your ski holiday completely off-piste, then forget the Rockies, Sierra Nevada mountains or the Alps - try the Middle East. Or perhaps North Korea...




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White House has asked North Korea to resume talks

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said the U.S. has reached out to North Korea to continue negotiations in Stockholm in October after the regime said denuclearization was 'off the table'.




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Australian student Alek Sigley detained in North Korea was forced to making a false confession

An Australian student who was briefly detained in North Korea last year over spy charges said he had been kidnapped by secret police and forced to make a false confession.




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Transgender tank driver cries as she pleads to be allowed to stay in the South Korean army

Staff Sergeant Byun Hui-su fought back tears as she said being a soldier had been her 'childhood dream' and that she wanted to help guard the tense border with communist North Korea.




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North Korea becomes the 29th country to record coronavirus as suspected patient struck in Denmark

The North Korean citizen returned from China before being tested positive for the deadly virus, according to local media. A woman from China has taken ill at Copenhagen airport, Denmark.




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North Korea's internet use has surged by 300 per cent over the last three years

A report studying the internet usage of these North Korean leaders throughout 2019 claims Kim Jong-un is presiding over 'a nation run like a criminal syndicate'.




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North Korean coronavirus refugees are quarantined with terminal tuberculosis patients

North Korean refugees suspected of having caught coronavirus during their escape to China have been quarantined among terminal tuberculosis patients. Pictured: Pyongyang Hospital.




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North Korea sends 500 'workers' to patrol its Chinese border amid coronavirus fears 

North Korea has sent 500 Red Cross workers to its border with China to help with 'quarantine operations', even though the Hermit Kingdom officially reported having no coronavirus cases.




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North Korea 'executes official for public bath visit while in quarantine'

The official had been placed in isolation after travelling to China with Kim Jong-un (pictured) imposing military law to enforce the lockdown, South Korean media said.




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North Korea imposes 'unprecedented' coronavirus measures

State media is demanding 'absolute obedience' to health authorities as North Korea tries to shield itself from the virus that emerged in neighbouring China.




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North Korea fires two 'unidentified projectiles' into the sea

The projectiles were fired near the coastal town of Wonsan and flew around 149 miles, according to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff.




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North Korea deploys Photoshop to beat coronavirus

Multiple photographs depicting North Korea's response to the threat of COVID-19 were sent to Stuart Gibson, a senior lecturer in forensic science at the University of Kent, for expert analysis.