Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with its southern neighbour because war could break out at “any moment“, it said, days after warning the US and South Korea of a nuclear attack.

North Korea today expressed regret over its recent release of dam water that sparked flooding downstream blamed for six South Korean deaths.

North and South Korea today adopted a military agreement enabling the first train crossing of their heavily armed border in more than a half-century, the South’s Defence Ministry said.

US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice today arrived in South Korea to press Seoul to support sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test that rattled the world.

South Korea and North Korea have agreed to restart their suspended high-level talks this month in Pyongyang, the South’s Unification Ministry said today.

Military officials from North and South Korea failed to reach an agreement after two days of high-level talks, the South’s Defence Ministry said today.

Top US and Chinese negotiators met today for discussions on luring North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks, after Washington dismissed the North’s latest threat to resume long-range missile testing as counter-productive.