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Kim Jong Un has apologised after North Korean soldiers shot dead a South Korean ministerial official near the countries’ sea border, the presidential office in Seoul said on Friday. SEE ALSO: Why North Central Zone Pulled Out Of Arewa…

A South Korean ministry official who has been missing since Monday was shot dead by North Korea, the Defence Ministry in Seoul said on Thursday. SEE ALSO: South African Actress Shot Dead In Her Home Yonhap news agency cited a ministry…

The government of North Korea appears to be distraught as it has pledged to punish local officials over a typhoon that hit the eastern coast on Wednesday. A Workers' Party newspaper accused authorities in the coastal city of Wonsan of…

North Korea is believed to have up to 60 nuclear bombs and the world’s third-largest stockpile of chemical weapons totaling up to 5,000 tons, the U.S. Army said. SEE ALSO: Why Kim Kardashian must save Kanye West from himself - Piers Morgan…

The South Korean government says it has begun a controversial audit of North Korean refugee groups based in South Korea, a Defence Ministry spokesperson announced in Seoul on Wednesday. Of the Twenty-five organsations, of which 13 are…

At least 30 people are dead and a dozen are missing after more than a week of devastating torrential rain caused landslides and floods in South Korea. The government said the casualties include 13 dead and two missing from the…

North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of being infected with the coronavirus returned from South Korea. SEE ALSO: Tears, joy as 90 Korean families separated by war…

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Stephen Biegun, on Wednesday rejected reports that he was seeking to meet North Korean officials during a visit to South Korea this week but reiterated that Washington is open to resuming talks. SEE ALSO:…

Around 183 million people in 47 countries, including North Korea, are facing the possibility of severe food insecurity as border closures and disruptions in global supply chains have restricted their access to farming products, a…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Saturday appeared in public for the first time in weeks, State News Agency (KCNA), reported, amid speculation that he might be sick or even dead. North Korean media ran photographs showing the leader…

After several health rumors, North Korean leader, Kim Jung Un has resurfaced in the public eye for the first time in almost three weeks. This was made known by the state media, following rumours  that he had been seriously ill after a heart…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has presided over a political bureau meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party calling for stricter measures to counter the coronavirus pandemic, state news agency KCNA reported on Sunday. SEE ALSO: EU Ministers…

North Korea’s rubber-stamp legislature is to hold a once-or-twice-a-year session on Friday, with economic and public health issues expected to take centre stage amid its ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus. SEE ALSO: Date Of…

A mother has been arrested by the North Korean police for saving the life of her children from a house fire instead of saving the portraits of North Korea’s past leaders which reportedly burnt to pieces. The country’s Ministry of State…

 South Korea has criticised North Korea for an artillery drill near the inter-Korean maritime border. The shooting practice was a violation of a bilateral military agreement from September 2018, the Defence Ministry said on Monday in…

Nigeria’s wrestler, Odunayo Adekuoroye, has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Adekuoroye defeated Sun Jong of North Korea 12-2 via technical superiority in the 57kg category to reach the semi-finals of the 2019 Senior World…

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of a “newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher,”  state media reported on Sunday after the country conducted its seventh missile launch in under a month. The Asian country on…

North Korea on Saturday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles from a site on the country’s East coast, the South Korean presidential office said. The South Korea said this was the fifth such launch within weeks. The…

Hundreds of international companies defied U.S. sanctions pressure and attended an international trade fair in North Korea this week making it the largest such event on record, analysts said on Tuesday. The 22nd Pyongyang Spring…

South Korea’s presidential Blue House said on Friday that Seoul would push for humanitarian food aid to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), regardless of security situations. Chung Eui-yong, top security advisor for South…

North Korea on Tuesday demanded the release of a cargo ship seized by the U.S. on suspicion of breaching UN and U.S. sanctions, the official Yonhap news agency cited Pyongyang state media as saying. The U.S. government on Thursday seized…

North Korea has conducted a “strike drill’’ for multiple launchers, firing tactical guided weapons into the East Sea in a military drill supervised by leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday, the North’s state media reported on Sunday. The…

A Vietnamese woman Doan Thi Huong who spent over two years in a Malaysian prison on suspicion of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was freed on Friday, her lawyer said. Huong  30, was charged along with an…

President Donald Trump said the U.S. paid nothing to North Korea to secure the freedom of student Otto Warmbier, who died in 2017 shortly after his return to the United States. “No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not 2…