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.

The Foreign Office has been condemned by senior MPs and human rights groups for continuing to use aid money intended to alleviate poverty to help some of the world's most brutal regimes.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations and warned that his country will soon show a new strategic weapon to the world.

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.

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'.

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 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.

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.

A source in South Korea has claimed the Supreme Leader fled Pyongyang for Wonsan on the nation's east coast amid growing fears over the virus.

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

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.

President Trump said there is no confirmation that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is gravely ill during Tuesday's White House press briefing.

A power vacuum left by the dictator could explode into an ugly civil war in the North Korea, which would spark 'humanitarian suffering' and a wave of refugees fleeing the violence.

President Donald Trump claimed that reports of North Korea's Kim Jong Un being gravely ill was 'fake news' from CNN during Thursday's daily COVID-19 briefing

President Donald Trump on Thursday continued his series of cryptic comments on the health and well-being of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

President Donald Trump on Friday refused to comment on reports out of North Korea that leader Kim Jong Un made a public appearance amid rumors the dictator was seriously ill or deceased.

As questions swirl around the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the U.S. military contingency plan for the regime's collapse, Operations Plan 5029, is being reviewed with new urgency.

North Korean state media broadcast images of Kim at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a fertiliser plant on the outskirts of Pyongyang on Friday, his first appearance since April 11.

JACK DOYLE: While the Tories realise that if they fail to deliver Brexit, they will be electorally dead, Labour is convinced that it must champion Remain voters to survive.

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: With his bombastic battle-cry of 'Get Brexit Done', Boris Johnson left the conference stage to ecstatic applause. His first speech as PM was everything they hoped for.

JACK DOYLE: In the red corner stands Jeremy Corbyn, a friend to Britain's enemies, whose hard-Left prospectus would lay waste to Britain's economy.

The Turner winning ceramicist Grayson Perry delivered an acute and sharp-eyed diagnosis of Labour's failings after he was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio Four's Today programme.

British music promoter Rob Goldstone helped set up a Trump Tower meeting with Russians under the expectation they had 'smoking gun' material on Hillary, he told lawmakers.

Rudy Giuliani said President Trump's disclosure that he 'reimbursed' Michael Cohen for his payment to Stormy Daniels 'vindicates' that Robert Mueller must end his Russia probe.

Senate Democrats claim to have evidence Russians funneled money through the National Rifle Association to help elect Trump, using Maria Butina (left), a Russian gun rights activist.

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.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she was unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will be allowed inside the top secret White House meeting on 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.

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'.

According to the U.S Department of Justice, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe racked up nearly $10 million in expenditure from October to March, the latest six-month accounting period.

Wikistrat, a company that pitches itself as a crowdsourced geopolitical research firm, may actually be involved in intelligence-gathering on behalf of foreign governments, it has been reported.

President Trump seemed to claim last week that Russia was not involved in a conspiracy to disrupt the election, but the White House says he 'feels' that Putin's government did and 'didn't question that.'

Russian pop star Emin Agalarov admits he was the force behind the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. but he denies he was trying to influence the election for Donald Trump.

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.

News of the indictments was announced at the Justice Department in Washington, DC during a press conference held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Maria Butina, 29, was arrested in Washington D.C. and charged with acting as a foreign agent on orders from the Kremlin - a direct allegation of election interference.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is countering his boss, President Donald Trump, and doubling down on the assertion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

President Vladimir Putin has offered to have 12 Russians spies accused of interfering in the presidential election interrogated but in Russia and by Russians.

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.

'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.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani says the special counsel's Russia probe and investigation into the president should be concluded by Sept. 1.

Answering charges that he is only targeting a list of his political opponents, Trump claimed he 'would put a Republican on, too, if I thought they were incompetent or crazy.'

Anastasia Vashukevich, who also uses the name Nastya Rybka, was arrested in Pattaya, Thailand, in February and held on prostitution charges after hosting a 'sex training course'.

President Trump penned the tweet after what many had called the darkest day of his presidency following the guilty verdict against Paul Manafort and the guilty plea by Michael Cohen.

John Bolton met with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva on Thursday, when the pair discussed election meddling, Syria, Iran, North Korea and nuclear weapons.