North Korea has fired an unidentified type of ballistic missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports. Pyongyang has conducted a number of nuclear tests in the past year. North Korean leader Kim...
US defence secretary James Mattis is in South Korea on the first foreign trip by a senior official in the Trump administration. Mr Mattis is expected to use the visit to reassure Seoul of continuing...
Celebrations are under way as people around the world ring in the New Year. From Sydney in Australia to Pyongyang in North Korea and Moscow in Russia, crowds gathered to say goodbye to 2016, a...
Celebrations have begun as people around the world ring in the New Year. From Sydney to Pyongyang, festive crowds gathered to say goodbye to 2016, a tumultuous year in global politics. Earlier,...
Thae Yong-ho arrived in South Korea with his family earlier this year A high-profile North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea has told the BBC that he has no regrets. Thae Yong-ho was...
South Korea's military cyber command, set up to guard against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has said. A spokesman told the BBC that classified information was...
North Korea warned of "tougher countermeasures for self-defence" after the UN Security Council unanimously imposed its strongest-ever sanctions on Pyongyang. The country's foreign ministry issued a...
North Korea does not care who is president of the United States, a senior Pyongyang-based diplomat said during a visit to the United Nations on Tuesday following the election of Donald Trump to...
American allies woke up to Donald Trump's victory early Wednesday deeply unsettled, questioning whether the US will remain a stalwart partner and a stable pillar of the international order. Trump...
POTUS 45 won't have much time to celebrate. After a bruising brawl of a campaign, the next US commander in chief will inherit a world with the toughest array of foreign policy challenges in decades....
A new documentary reveals secret audio tapes of late North Korean leader Kim Jong II talking openly about his frustrations with the country's propaganda and film production. He is heard speaking...
Russia's seat on the UN Human Rights Council is under threat due to its support of the Syrian government's air campaign in Aleppo. More than 80 human rights and aid organisations, including Human...
The US military has said it detected a failed test launch of an intermediate ballistic missile by North Korea. The test took place near the north-western city of Kusong at 03:33 GMT on Saturday, the...
North Korea has carried out a "successful" ground test of a new rocket engine to launch satellites, state media says. Kim Jong-un, the country's leader, asked scientists and engineers to make...
Come out, come out, wherever you are. For the parents of a Mormon missionary from Utah in the United States, that phrase has new meaning. For the last twelve years, Kathleen and Roy Sneddon hoped and...
Floods in North Korea that have left hundreds dead or missing are the "worst disaster" to hit the country since World War II, state media said on Wednesday. The official KCNA news agency did not give...
The US has flown two supersonic B-1 Lancer strategic bombers over South Korea in a show of force, just days after North Korea carried out its fifth nuclear test. The two bombers conducted a...
In this 21st century, Africa does not have dynamic leaders that can meaningfully challenge adverse world policies affecting its people on the continent or in the diaspora. There is no equivalence of...
Folks, happenings in the Korean Peninsula are frightening. No one who knows what is building up will underrate those happenings as potential sources of a catastrophe that will put the world on edge....
World leaders have reacted with anger after North Korea carried out its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. The South accused the North's leader Kim Jong-un of "maniacal recklessness". China...
