North Korea

(ATTN: UPDATES with photo, details in paras 5, 8-11) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea conducted a "super-large warhead" power test for a strategic cruise missile and test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile this week, state media reported Saturda

(ATTN: UPDATES with more details, JCS remarks in paras 3, 6-7) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea conducted a "super-large warhead" power test for a strategic cruise missile and test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile this week, state media report

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea conducted a "super-large warhead" power test for a strategic cruise missile and test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile this week, state media reported Saturday, further ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Penins

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, April 19 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of the Group of Seven (G7) countries stressed their commitment to counter evasion of anti-North Korea sanctions Friday, as a U.N. expert panel monitoring sanctions enforcement faces its

(ATTN: TRIMS headline; ADDS more details in last 2 paras) SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday denounced the recent visit to South Korea and Japan by the top U.S. envoy to the United Nations, calling it an "aid-begging" trip to invigorate

SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- A U.N. Security Council committee has approved sanctions exemptions for the World Health Organization (WHO), allowing the delivery of tents and thermometers to North Korea, its website showed Friday. On April 1, the commi

SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday denounced the recent visit to South Korea and Japan by the top U.S. envoy to the United Nations, calling it an "aid-begging" trip to invigorate the "weakened illegal" sanctions against Pyongyang. Lat

SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea and Belarus have agreed to strengthen high-level exchanges during talks between their senior diplomats, state media reported Friday, as both nations are seeking to deepen bilateral ties. North Korean Vice Fore

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, April 18 (Yonhap) -- The top U.S. envoy to the U.N. on Thursday highlighted the "imperative" to maintain North Korea's human rights issues at the "forefront" of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC)'s agenda as she met with the f

A song aired on North Korean state television shows jubilant citizens hailing Kim Jong-un as their 'friendly father', with people of different ages and backgrounds singing Kim's praises. The song was released after the leader inaugurated a new residential development Continue reading...

(ATTN: UPDATES with remarks, details in paras 6-8) SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has dismantled street lamps along its side of two rare roads connecting the two Koreas, a source said Thursday, in an apparent move to completely shut down the r

(ATTN: UPDATES with more details in paras 4-5) SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has dismantled street lamps along its side of two rare roads connecting the two Koreas, a source said Thursday, in an apparent move to completely shut down the route

SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has dismantled street lamps along its side of two rare roads connecting the two Koreas, a source said Thursday, in an apparent move to completely shut down the routes once seen as symbols of inter-Korean cooperat

SEOUL, April 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's spy agency said Wednesday it is monitoring whether North Korea's weapons technology was used in the ballistic missiles that Iran launched against Israel last week. Following Iran's launch of more than 300 dr

Top-ranking Chinese official Zhao Leji met Kim Jong-un during three-day visit to PyongyangA top ranking Chinese official reaffirmed ties with North Korea during a meeting in Pyongyang on Saturday with the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, China’s state media reported, in the highest-level talks between the allies in years.The visit by Zhao Leji, who ranks […]

Kim Jong-un’s selected few are ‘100% satisfied’ but find a country steeped in hopelessness under sanctionsGliding down pristine, untouched mountain runs, Olga Shpalok said she was “getting 100% satisfaction”.After a full day of skiing, the Russian designer from Vladivostok wound down with a visit to her hotel’s well-equipped spa and sauna. […]

Roger Newman Turner says North Korea has the right idea blurring jeans, and calls skinny ones an abomination. John Bailey thinks they probably forgot who made themWhen it comes to Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans, I’m with North Korea (Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans blurred by North Korean TV censors, 26 March). It’s not so much the US imperialism that they may or […]

Ukraine’s foreign minister calls veto ‘guilty plea’ amid claims Pyongyang is aiding Moscow’s war against KyivRussia has blocked the renewal of a UN panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang.The move was met with a flurry of criticism, […]

His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something about Alan Titchmarsh that North Korea’s censors can’t quite forgive – his jeans. The green-fingered broadcaster and author of raunchy novels has been a fixture on state television since 2022, albeit with […]

Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something about Alan Titchmarsh that North Korea’s censors can’t quite forgive – his jeans.The green-fingered […]

Last-minute decision on Tuesday’s match leaves football bodies searching for alternative venueNorth Korea has abruptly cancelled its 2026 World Cup qualifying match with Japan next week, leaving organisers frantically searching for an alternative venue.North Korea reportedly decided it would no longer host the match, which had been scheduled for next […]

AFP photographer Pedro Pardo gained access to a remote stretch of frontier in China’s north-east Jilin province. Between rusting factories and peeling housing blocks were glimpses of daily life in North Korea Continue reading...

Crunch fixture taps into a complicated underlying political history, with 150,000 North Koreans living in JapanA place at the next football World Cup is not all that is at stake when Japan and North Korea meet on Thursday for the first of two qualifying matches, in a resumption of one of the fiercest rivalries in international football.Despite the huge gap […]

The supreme leader of North Korea has been seen in footage aired by the state-run broadcaster KRT showing firing drills by artillery units in the country's western regions. Kim Jong-un is seen walking near a number of rocket launchers, which are later fired. According to the Korean Central News Agency, the state news agency of North Korea, the drills […]

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Changes in orbit of Malligyong-1 suggest Pyongyang is successfully maneuvering the satelliteNorth Korea’s first spy satellite is “alive”, space experts have said, after detecting changes in its orbit that suggested Pyongyang was successfully controlling the spacecraft – although its capabilities remain unknown.After two fiery failures, North Korea […]

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters in Washington he ‘didn’t know there was such a thing as a Russian luxury car’A US spokesperson has mocked president Vladimir Putin’s gift of a Russian car to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, as he accused Moscow of violating UN resolutions.North Korean state media said on Tuesday that Kim […]

Eastern Azaleas are chasing qualification for Olympic Games with team a representation of isolationist state’s mightMoving the Goalposts: sign up for our free newsletterThe fact that North Korea are ranked in the top 10 of the world’s best women’s football sides – higher than Brazil and Australia among others – may come as a surprise to some, but […]

Kremlin says gift was chosen as Kim liked the car when Putin showed it to him in Russia last yearVladimir Putin gave Kim Jong-un a luxury Russian Aurus limousine as a gift because the North Korean leader liked the car when the Russian president showed it to him last year, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.When Kim visited eastern Russia in September, Putin showed […]