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 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.

Earlier this year, Karl Stefanovic joked about his recent weight gain after unflattering photos surfaced of him at the beach in Byron Bay.

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

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 trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean leader.

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.

Lindsey Graham has frequently commented on the regime in the US media and, last year, was reported by CNN to be a powerful foreign policy adviser for the Trump administration.

North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has now reported that Kim Jong-un has sent a personal letter to workers on a project in the city of Wonsan.

Kim Jong Un is reported to have written to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to congratulate him on the country's Freedom Day, a national holiday.

Kim Jong-Un was last seen on April 12 inspecting North Korea's Air Force units. His disappearance has triggered speculation that the dictator is critically ill or dead.

The despot cut the ribbon (pictured) at the opening of a fertiliser factory in Sunchon, state media reported, and released pictures supposedly showing the event.

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 Korea's former deputy ambassador to Britain, Thae Yong Ho (pictured), has apologised after claiming leader Kim Jong-un was so unwell he could not stand.

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: 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.

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: Rain's predicted for Thursday, and there's the chance of snow in Scotland. This could mean older, less mobile, Tory voters stay at home.

'There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections,' the committee's top Republican and Democrat after a closed hearing on the issue.

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.

The planned sit-down is to discuss a response to congressional requests. Trump is expected to bring up his demand, however, that DOJ examine whether his campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled'.

The Republican Party has paid half a million dollars to the law firm representing Hope Hicks, the former Trump aide who admitted she sometimes lied to help her then-boss Donald Trump.

Three members of the House Freedom Caucus will introduce a 12-page resolution on Tuesday calling for a new probe to run in parallel with one led by Robert Mueller.

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.

President Donald Trump lauded his deputy attorney general on Wednesday for combating a violent gang of criminal immigrants.

Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will be allowed inside the top secret White House meeting on the 2016 election

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.

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.

A former adviser to Donald Trump claims that 'two and perhaps more' informants approached him prior to the presidential election with information that would have 'jammed up' the campaign in some way.

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

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said Manafort's advance age, and the hefty sentences he could face from a U.S. federal judge, mean he could be behind bars for the rest of his life.

In his latest Twitter rant Trump slammed Peter Strzok, who worked briefly on the Russia investigation but was removed from the probe when a report revealed he had sent anti-Trump text messages.

Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves and majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president, poll finds.

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

Trump in a major retreat that administration said that he misspoke at his Helsinki summit when he said that he did not have 'any reason' to think that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. joined President Trump's attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling him a 'phony' and even slamming his visit to the school.

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.'

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 Trump added the accusation that special counsel Robert Mueller and his team 'are enjoying ruining people’s lives and REFUSE to look at the real corruption on the Democrat side.'

Mueller has not responded to a weeks-old letter from Trump's legal team, suggesting the president's testimony isn't needed or investigators are tracking down new leads.

The GRU - Russia's 'Main Intelligence Directorate' - was founded in 1918 after Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution.

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.

President Donald Trump accused the special counsel of ruining lives a day after Paul Manafort was charged with breaking his plea agreement for similar behavior.

The 29-year-old has had to bide his time to be given the opportunity to show what he is capable of. That chance has arisen at Bundesliga leaders RB Leipzig and he has seized it with both hands.