The 2016 presidential race is seen by many as the most divisive and scandalous in the U.S. history.
Foreign ministers for the United States, Japan and South Korea met in New York on Sunday, ahead of U.N. meetings, to discuss stepped-up measures against North Korea and expand collaboration with one another after Pyongyang's fifth and largest nuclear test.
Flooding following heavy rain has killed 60 people and left over 44,000 homeless in North Korea, according to the United Nations (UN) after the country reported that a north-eastern river suffered its worst-ever flood.
The New Zealand government launched an inquiry on Thursday (Aug 18) into the contamination of a regional water supply that has left thousands of people sick with vomiting and diarrhoea.
DPRK’s foreign minister said Tuesday that any decision to stage a further nuclear test would depend on the United States, as he held Washington responsible for scuppering denuclearisation efforts on the Korean peninsula.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong-ho briefly shook hands on the sidelines of the Asian Regional Forum in Vientiane, Laos on Monday
DPRK has denounced a U.S. intelligence company's scenario for precision strikes on its nuclear facilities as an "expression of the American ambition for a war of aggression."
Chinese authorities arrested a DPRK’s spy in the border city of Dandong early this month and confiscated 30 million yuan and gold bars, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported Sunday.
DPRK hit back at the United States on Sunday for labelling it a money-laundering state, describing it as a “nonsensical” effort that only revealed the flaws of existing sanctions pushed by Washington.
The defense ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea at a meeting Saturday confirmed that the three countries will closely cooperate to deal with North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programs.
Defence Minister Gen Nakatani ordered the Self-Defence Forces on Monday to prepare to intercept a possible North Korean missile, a government source said while South Korea also said it had detected evidence of launch preparations, officials from Japan and South Korea said.
Uganda on Sunday announced that it is breaking its military cooperation with North Korea over its continued nuclear proliferation.
According to the Chosunilbo, S. Korea's trade with North Korea is expected to be practically zero this year now the joint Kaesong Industrial Complex has been shut down.
Former Prime Minister Kang Young-hoon, who met with his North Korean counterpart in 1990 in the first talks between the prime ministers of the two Koreas in nearly a half century, died Tuesday. He was 94.
North Korea raised the curtain Friday (May 6) on its biggest political show for a generation, aimed at cementing the absolute rule of leader Kim Jong Un and shadowed by the possibility of an imminent nuclear test.
The Pyongyang skyline is rising - and not just with the trophy structures that represent the North Korean state. Despite its political and economic isolation, the capital is in the midst of a building boom.
Recent satellite images suggest North Korea has completed the external refurbishment of a shipyard dedicated to building and launching a new class of ballistic missile submarine, a US think-tank said yesterday.
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