"I'm good at escaping," says Grace Jo, a slender 25-year-old who managed to flee North Korea and its authoritarian regime not just once but three times, though most of her family was not so lucky....
Contacts between North and South Korea are extremely limited, and their tense shared border is one of the few places it is possible to see people from both sides, but Seoul has now authorised an NGO...
Senior Trump administration officials fear a nuclear arms race in Asia-Pacific if an increasingly belligerent North Korea is not reined in, Australia's foreign minister said Friday after talks in New...
US lawmakers submitted a bill Thursday to tightly restrict travel and ban tourism to North Korea, citing the risk that Pyongyang will arrest Americans for use as diplomatic "bargaining chips." The...
North Korea on Thursday accused the South of unleashing more than 450 machine gun rounds at a flock of birds in an "armed provocation" at the tense Demilitarized Zone, after Seoul's forces fired...
A US Navy ship has sailed in disputed South China Sea waters near a reef claimed by Beijing in the first "freedom of navigation" exercise under President Donald Trump, a US official said. The USS...
Was North Korea behind the ransomware epidemic that hit global computer networks earlier this month? That's the subject of heated debate in cybersecurity circles after analysts found similarities in...
North Korea's latest missile launch showed that the county's military is able to operate weapons from anywhere in the country, not just from a fixed position, satellite images have shown. The testing...
China's UN ambassador said Tuesday that there was "no reason" to refuse dialogue with North Korea despite a series of ballistic missile tests that have been strongly condemned by the Security...
China's imports from North Korea fell in April to a near three-year low, data showed Tuesday, as Beijing faces calls to put more economic pressure on its nuclear-armed ally. China -- the North's sole...
North Korea on Tuesday "flatly rejected" a United Nations statement vowing to punish its latest banned missile test with tighter sanctions. In a unanimous statement backed by Pyongyang's ally China,...
The corridors of power were home to South Korea's Park Geun-Hye as a child, de facto first lady, and president. Now she resides at a detention centre, and is addressed as "the accused". Park went on...
The Lazarus hacking group, widely believed to be connected to North Korea, is "highly likely" responsible for the WannaCry global cyberattack that hit earlier this month, US anti-virus firm Symantec...
The United Nations on Monday called on North Korea to put a stop to its ballistic missile tests in order to open up the prospect of talks with world powers. The appeal followed the launch on Sunday...
North Korea on Monday declared its medium-range Pukguksong-2 missile ready for deployment after a weekend test, the latest step in its quest to defy UN sanctions and develop an intercontinental...
North Korea on Monday confirmed the "successful" launch of a medium-range ballistic missile, Pyongyang's state media reported, adding the weapon was now ready to be deployed for military action....
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Sunday that the United States was still in the "early stages" of applying pressure on Pyongyang, after yet another North Korean missile test in defiance of...
North Korea Sunday test-fired a ballistic missile which travelled some 500 km, just a week after a previous launch sparked international condemnation and threats of tougher UN sanctions. South...
North Korea fired off an "unidentified projectile" Sunday according to South Korean defence officials, a week after its latest missile launch. "North Korea fired an unidentified projectile at...
South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Sunday announced his picks for finance and foreign ministers while appointing a former diplomat as his top security advisor for his new government. Moon...
