Alek Sigley hasn't been heard or seen since Tuesday morning and is believed to be detained in North Korea.

Alek Sigley, 29, last made contact with his family on June 25, sparking concerns he had been detained in the secretive nation's capital, Pyongyang.

The Australian student's business partner, Michelle Joyce, said she would 'be surprised' if he didn't return to the country despite the negative experience.

Alek Sigley, 29, landed in China safe and well on Thursday after spending nine days detained in the communist country.

The hermit country claimed on Saturday that Alek Sigley had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda by providing photos and other materials to news outlets with critical views toward the North.

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.

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).

Reports which emerged in Japan last month claimed that Kenji Fujimoto (pictured), a former chef for Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il, had been arrested on suspicion of a 'past betrayal'.

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.

The Russian-American businessman, 53, was an invaluable FBI source who helped the US government 'combat terrorists', a letter filed by prosecutors in 2009 and unsealed on Friday reveals.

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.

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

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.

Using a space-based radar, scientists found that the North Korean tests at Mount Mantap had a yield of 245 to 271 kilotonnes and had managed to shift the mountain by a few metres.

Singapore-based drug smuggler Wee Quay Tan, 48, who also has a large tattoo of a dragon inked over his shoulders and chest, found himself in the middle of the biggest drug bust in Australian history.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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'.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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.

Kim Jong-un visited Pyongyang's Palace of the Sun on Saturday as he commemorated father Kim Jong-il's birthday, the first time the dictator has been seen in public since January 25.

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

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.

North Korea claims it has no coronavirus cases, even as its border neighbor China has experienced more than 3,200 deaths from the virus. Experts have called claim 'Impossible'

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

Stuntman Gianluca Di Medio, 40, was on the set of a new movie filming in North East China when he contracted coronavirus and collapsed on set.

The prisoner, who used the pseudonym Kim Il-soon, exposed the monstrous practice after surviving the hell of Kaechon concentration camp, which is located north of Pyongyang.

Alek Sigley, 30, had been a Masters student at Kim Il-sung University, in Pyonyang, for three semesters when he was whisked out of the foreign student dormitory by two men on June 25 last year.

Kim Jong-un set an ambitious 200-day deadline for the completion of the new Pyongyang General Hospital after work began suddenly just under a month ago.

The North Korean man was rushed to hospital after being shot by a Chinese border guard while trying to defect on April 20 where he tested positive for coronavirus, a source has said.

North Korea is hiding the true devastation dealt to its people by coronavirus in a bid to spare China embarrassment, a senior defector has revealed. The true number 'very likely... exceeds imagination'.

Pop star Prince blasted fellow singers Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran in an astonishing handwritten note contained in an archive found in the late star's Minnesota home.

Last year, Katy Perry released her holiday jingle Cozy Little Christmas. And on Sunday, the singer, 35, announced that the song's music video would be coming out one year after its original release.

The TV presenter, 60, mocked the technique, which many use to help ease anxieties. ASMR is a feeling of relaxation, characterised by a tingling sensation

He recently revealed that he's looking forward to starting a family with his fiancée Katy Perry after they exchange nuptials.

Stormy Daniels' estranged husband Glendon Crain is working shifts as a dishwasher at Chili's Grill & Bar in Forney, Texas, DailyMail.com can reveal.

She leads the life of a globetrotting pop star. And Katy Perry lapped up the luxury at the Disney resort Aulani on Oahu this week, showing off her holiday on Instagram.

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, 72, appeared delighted as they posed for photographs alongside Katy Perry while celebrating the British Asian Trust in London this evening.

The Prince of Wales - founder of the organisation - announced the pop star's new role at a black tie reception in London last night. But the appointment has provoked outrage online.

This year's Boat Race is already making waves with the news that singer Ellie Goulding's husband, Old Etonian art dealer Caspar Jopling, may be rowing as a member of the Oxford crew.

She's scheduled to perform at the ICC Women's World Cup Final in Melbourne on March 8th.  

Astrologers like Miller warn that things can go a little haywire when Mercury, the planet of communication, goes retrograde, but there are also some perks.

Pop superstar Katy Perry will perform at a free concert for Victoria's bushfire-ravaged community.