ADAM SHERGOLD AT ASHTON GATE: Andreas Weimann spent eight years with Aston Villa so it would have stung to help gift bitter rivals Birmingham City three points in this manner.

Birmingham wonderkid Bellingham 'will become Dortmund's record signing this summer' after the German club saw off competition from Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea.

Birmingham City manager Pep Clotet has urged Jude Bellingham to remain focused despite transfer interest from Manchester United. He was driven into Carrington by his parents on Monday.

Jude Bellingham's former youth coach believes Manchester United would be a good fit for the Birmingham teenager who looks set for a big-money move this summer.

Robbie Savage has revealed he hid from Arsenal's kit man when Thierry Henry asked for the shirt he'd scored his 100th Gunners goal in back.

According to Bild, the move would likely have been completed sooner if not for the coronavirus outbreak but Dortmund remain confident of landing the talented 16-year-old.

The Bundesliga club were competing with Manchester United to sign Bellingham, who does not turn 17 until June 29, at the end of the season, and were confident of winning the race.

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.

The UN banned luxury goods from entering North Korea to punish the rogue state for its nuclear weapons tests, with luxury watches among the specific items named.

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

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.

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

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.

North Korean despot Kim Jong Un has blasted his own officials as 'helpless' as he 'urgently convened' a disaster prevention meeting about oncoming Typhoon Lingling.

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.

FSB security service detained more than 160 North Korean fishermen at gunpoint and accused them of illegal fishing in Russian waters. After a gun battle four Russian guards were wounded.

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

Residents living near the 'forbidden city' in Pyongyang have been faced with the measure to stop them snooping on Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un as he works (file photo).

NBA legend Dennis Rodman thinks he's the key to helping the NBA mend fences with China after a week of fighting over its influence on American companies with which it does business.

Stunning photos show Kim Jon-Un sat astride a magnificent white horse and riding amid snow fall in Mount Paektu, a mountain on the border between North Korea and China.

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.

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 there.

Kim Jong-un reportedly isn't happy with the state of the Hotel Haegumgang - formally known as the Four Season Barrier Reef Resort, which used to float off the coast of Queensland.

A world first in 1988. the Four Seasons Barrier Reef, was decked out with 200 rooms, a nightclub, bars, a tennis court and was anchored around 40 miles off the coast of Australia.

Kim Jong-un turned up the heat on South Korea on Friday as he visited a newly-built spa in the North, while calling for a meeting with Seoul about tearing down a jointly-built resort, calling it 'shabby'.

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.

North Korea on Friday lashed out at former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, calling him a 'rabid dog' who was showing signs of 'the final stage of dementia'.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a flight demonstration of military aircraft at an airfield on the country's eastern coast where he instructed combat pilots to acquire 'great idea and tactics'.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the US has indefinitely postponed a joint military exercise with South Korea in an 'act of goodwill' toward North Korea at a press conference on Sunday.

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.

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.

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.

The North Korean dictator cut the ribbon at the Yangdok County Hot Spring Cultural Recreation Centre in South Pyongan Province. It came as Hwang In-cheol demanded his father be released.

The defector wrote a letter to the President on Wednesday urging that the US should impose heavy sanctions to preempt any nuclear flexing by Kim and consider fomenting a coup in North Korea.

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.

'What I would expect is some type of long-range ballistic missile would be the gift.' USAF General Charles Brown said on Tuesday at a defense writers' breakfast in Washington, D.C.

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

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. 

A 'meteor' fell from the sky over the Mariana Islands in Oceania. Viewers say the fireball, which might have been debris from a Long March 5 rocket test in China, was a 'gift' from North Korea or China.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, pictured, has addressed a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea according to official state media.

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.

Defense experts have warned Kim will carry out a nuclear missile test, but Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago last night: 'I hope his Christmas present is a beautiful vase. That's what I'd like a vase.'

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.

Crowds gathered on the streets and the bridge near Kim Il Sung square amid a heavy police presence in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday morning.

Kim Jong Un has been seen in public for the first time since the death of Qassem Soleimani, following rumours he had gone into hiding after the US drone strike.

Donald Trump asked South Korea's national security adviser to relay a happy birthday message to Kim Jong-un, who is thought to have turned 36 this week, during a meeting in Washington.

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'.

The uniformed women play a guitar, drums and accordion for North Korean Kim Jong-un as he watches them singing and dancing from behind a desk.

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'.

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.