North Korea
North Korea closes multiple embassies around the world
North Korea has formal relations with 159 countries, but had 53 diplomatic missions overseas, including three consulates and three representative offices, until it pulled out of Angola and Uganda, according to the ministry.
Koreas clash at Asian Games as fierce rivalries take centre stage
North and South Korea clash on the football pitch and India do battle with Pakistan in hockey as fierce rivalries take centre stage at the Asian Games on Saturday.
NKorea says chance of talks with US 'narrowing'
The possibility of talks between nuclear-armed North Korea and Washington is "narrowing", Pyongyang has said after the US State Department reaffirmed its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.
NKorea successfully tests new submarine-launched ballistic missile
North Korea says it successfully test-fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from the sea to contain external threats and bolster self-defence, ahead of fresh nuclear talks with the United States.
NKorea's launches short-range missiles, complicating US attempts to restart talks
North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast, the South Korean military has said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks amid stalled denuclearisation talks.
N Korea threatens more launches after fourth test in 12 days
North Korea threatens to carry out more weapons tests after it fired its fourth pair of projectiles in less than two weeks following the start of joint exercises between the US and the South.
North Korea says freed Australian student had been spying
North Korea's state news agency says an Australian student who was expelled from the country after 10 days' detention had committed "spying acts" through his work with foreign media.
‘N Korean leader's slain half-brother was a CIA informant’
Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the US Central Intelligence Agency, the Wall Street Journal reports.
NKorea's Kim visits factories linked to missile launches
The factories have innocuous names, but analysts say several ostensibly civilian facilities visited by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently are also used to build ballistic missile launchers and other weapons.
NKorea media hails summit as Trump presses for full denuclearisation
North Korea's state news agency on Saturday called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while US President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.
'No more war'
The leaders of North and South Korea embraced yesterday and pledged to work for the "complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula" on a day of smiles and handshakes at the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.
China hails 'courage' of North, South Korean leaders
China heap praise on the leaders of the two Koreas for holding a landmark summit, calling their handshake over the Military Demarcation Line that divides the peninsula a "historic moment".
US hopes Korean summit will lead to 'future of peace': WH
Donald Trump's White House voice hope that a Korean summit would "achieve progress toward a future of peace," as the leaders of the two countries sat down to talk.
Korean leaders aim for end of war, "complete denuclearisation" after historic summit
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embrace after pledging to work for the "complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," punctuating a day of smiles and handshakes at the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.
North Korea nuclear test site part-collapsed: Chinese experts
North Korea's underground nuclear test site has partially collapsed following a massive bomb blast last year, making it unusable, Chinese seismologists conclude.
SKorea turns off loudspeaker broadcasts into North before Korea summit
South Korea halts the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border at North Korea ahead of their first summit in a decade, as US President Donald Trump cautioned the nuclear crisis on the peninsula was a long way from being resolved.
As US, North Korea plan to meet, Iran warns against Trump deals
A US push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warns as US and North Korean leaders prepare to meet for denuclearization talks.
Obama: NKorea 'real threat', urges co-operation
North Korea poses a "real threat" whose solution will require international co-operation, former US President Barack Obama says on a visit to Japan.
S Korean delegation meets N Korean leader Kim
A South Korean delegation meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean official said, after arriving in the North on a visit aimed at encouraging North Korea and the United States to talk.
