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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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Donald Trump gives Kim Jong-Un a pass on his three days of missile tests

President Trump defended North Korea recent missile tests, arguing the short range missiles don't violate the Singapore agreement and claimed Kim Jong-Un would not would not want to 'disappoint' him.




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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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Department store selling 'Chanel, Rolex and Nike' goods opens in Pyongyang

North Korea has opened a high-end shopping mall in the capital Pyongyang which appeared to be selling western goods made by the likes of Nike, Adidas, Rolex, Tissot, Omega and Fila.




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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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Kim Jong-un wore a banned £10,000 Portofino watch while overseeing missile test

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.




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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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Kim Jong-Un's missile test site beach resort is delayed again

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.




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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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Ukraine's president trolls world leaders with spoof WhatsApp group

Volodymyr Zelensky, who once played a hapless President on TV but was elected to the real-life presidency in April, put on the mock presentation for guests at a summit in Yalta earlier this month.




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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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Pyongyang windows blocked out to prevent people seeing into the 'Forbidden City'

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).




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'I know a thing or two about diplomacy': Dennis Rodman wants to help the NBA solve its China problem

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.




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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's wife Ri Sol-ju is seen in public for first time in 4 months

Ri Sol-ju was seen alongside husband Kim Jong-un during his visit to the Mount Kumgang resort this week, marking the first time she has been seen in public in more than four months.




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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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Hackers target India's largest nuclear power plant with malware

Nuclear officials said the malicious software - believed to be linked to North Korea - had been detected at the Kudankulam plant (pictured) in southern India last month.




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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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Orphan raised by drug traffickers was part of Australia's biggest ever heroin importation

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.




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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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Kim Jong-Un fires 'unidentified projectile' on Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving launch was announced by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, saying two rockets travelled up to 236 miles. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is pictured earlier this week.




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Kim Jong Un unveils the 'epitome of modern civilisation'

The North Korean leader was photographed at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Samjiyon on Monday, as festivities were held to celebrate the opening of the city.




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Kim Jong Un rides a white horse up a sacred mountain

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.




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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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'NukeMap' images show how nuclear bomb would affect U.S. cities

The interactive map tool - called NukeMap - allows people to simulate the damage that could be inflicted if a nuclear bomb was dropped on any major city in the U.S.




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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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FA seek explanation from Port Vale striker Tom Pope over alleged anti-Semitic social media post

Hours after making headlines for an eye-catching display in Vale's 4-1 FA Cup defeat by Manchester City, Tom Pope took to Twitter to controversially answer a question from a fan.




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Port Vale striker Tom Pope apologises over alleged anti-Semitic remark on Twitter

Port Vale striker Tom Pope has apologised over what some observers perceived to be an anti-Semitic social media post. The League Two strikers recently gave his take on the possible outcome of a world war.