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.

Siti Aisyah (pictured) gives an interview that proves the truth is stranger than fiction. Remorseful but angry, Siti describes how it feels to have been so ruthlessly exploited.

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.

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.

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.

Pak Jong Chon, chief of staff for the Korean People's Army, said in a statement that Kim Jong Un was 'displeased' with what he called 'undesirable remarks' made by Trump in London.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

EXCLUSIVE: Millionaire financier David Rowland held talks with North Korean leaders in the capital Pyongyang about managing the personal fortunes of the rogue state's ruling family.

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.

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.

Donald Trump began his Las Vegas rally by parading 14 of the Miracle on Ice 1980 Winter Olympics ice hockey team on stage on the eve of the 40th anniversary of their shocking win.

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.

The projectiles were fired near the coastal town of Wonsan and flew around 149 miles, according to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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 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

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.

The 'Supreme Leader' of this impoverished country boards his beloved train by means of a ramp covered with a red carpet.

President Donald Trump said Monday he 'can't talk about' what he knows about the condition of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, but wished Kim well.

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.

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

Twitter users reacted humorously to reports that Kim Jong-un had not died with one person using an image of WWE wrestler Mark William Calaway, better known as The Undertaker.

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is 'glad' to see that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supposedly returned to the public eye after rumors he was suffering ill health.

Gunfire broke out between the two nations early Sunday when North Korea fired multiple shots towards South Korea at 7:41 am local time, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staffs said in a statement.

Speculation about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's health mounded around the world after the head of the Hermit Kingdom had not been seen in public for nearly three weeks.

'Handful of shots came across from the north, we think those were accidental,' he told ABC's 'This Week.' 'South Koreans did return fire. There was no loss of life on either side,' he added.

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.

Russia's ambassador in North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, presented the award to foreign minister Ri Son-gwon on Tuesday at the Mansudae Palace of Congress in Pyongyang.

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.

Speaking to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, the head of South Korea's intelligence agency said there was nothing to indicate the rumours about Kim's ill-health were true.

MI6 consultant Gordon Corera described how he collaborated with the creators of the drama Killing Eve to give fans a glimpse of the world of espionage.