South Korea says rival North Korea has a 6,000-member cyber army dedicated to disrupting the South’s military and government.

North Korea is experiencing serious internet problems, with experts warning that online access is “totally down”.

North Korea is experiencing serious internet problems, with experts warning that online access is “totally down”.

North Korea has threatened strikes against the White House, Pentagon and “the whole US mainland, that cesspool of terrorism”, accusing Barack Obama of “recklessly” spreading rumours of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyber-attack on Sony Pictures.

Despite its poverty and isolation, North Korea has poured resources into a sophisticated cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121, defectors from the secretive state said.

North Korea continued its string of rocket and missile firings, launching three short-range projectiles into the waters off its east coast ahead of a major holiday, Seoul said.

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North Korea has fired two short-range projectiles into waters off its east coast, South Korean officials said, on the eve of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s talks in Seoul expected to focus on the North’s nuclear weapons programme.

The parents of a runaway South Korean soldier who has fled to a forest after allegedly killing five comrades near the North Korean border has pleaded with him to surrender.

North Korea has conducted live-fire artillery drills near its disputed western sea boundary, South Korean officials said.

South Korea has returned fire into North Korean waters after shells from a North live-fire drill fell into the rivals’ disputed western sea boundary.

A North Korean artillery launch happened minutes before a Chinese commercial plane reportedly carrying 202 people flew in the same area, South Korean officials said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has described his once-powerful uncle and mentor, whom he purged and executed, as “factionalist filth” in a new year message in which he boasted of a surge of internal strength.

Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang’s main square today in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant.

North Korea said today it will soon put a detained American on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.

A top North Korean decision-making body issued a pointed warning today, saying that nuclear weapons are “the nation’s life” and will not be traded even for “billions of dollars”.

North Korea said today it had entered “a state of war” with the South, in the reclusive communist state’s latest belligerent threat.

North Korea put its missile units on standby to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the US flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force.

North Korea has reacted angrily to reports of new sanctions over its latest nuclear weapon test.

North Korea has responded to worldwide condemnation of its latest nuclear test by saying it was a “first response” to US threats and warned of unspecified “second and third measures of greater intensity”.

North Korea will be punished if it carries out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, John Kerry has warned.

North Korea will launch “merciless” strikes if South Korea goes through with planned live-fire drills near their disputed sea border, a North Korean officer said yesterday, amid persistent tension on the divided peninsula.

SOUTH Korea’s president urged rival North Korea yesterday to use the transition of leadership after Kim Jong Il’s death to usher in a new era of peace on the tense Korean peninsula, even as he warned the North against any provocations.

North Korea today reiterated a proposal for unconditional talks with South Korea to ease tensions on the divided peninsula.

South Korea's president vowed relentless retaliation against North Korea if provoked again, saying he was not afraid of a war with the communist state.

North Korea today threatened to launch a “sacred” nuclear war against South Korea if it is attacked

North Korea has branded South Korea's military exercise today as "provocative" and "offensive".

South Korea mobilised troops, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets today for its largest winter military drills in a show of force a month after North Korea’s deadly shelling of a front-line island.

NORTH KOREA backed away from threats to retaliate against South Korea for military exercises yesterday and offered concessions on its nuclear programme.

North Korea warned South Korea today not to stage artillery drills on a front-line island the North bombed last month, saying it would hit back even harder than in the previous attack that killed four South Koreans.

North Korea warned today that US-South Korean co-operation could bring nuclear war to the region.

A 13-year-old American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea into a peace park was taken away by Chinese police after staging a brief protest near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

A spy plane crashed today during routine training and its two pilots were killed in the second military accident to strike South Korea as it hosted the G20 summit.

More than 430 South Koreans crossed into North Korea today and met relatives for the first time since they were separated by the Korean War more than half a century ago.

An American held captive for seven months in North Korea stepped off a plane in his home town today, looking thin but joyful as he hugged the former president who had helped win his release and family and friends surrounded him in a group embrace.

South Korea staged a nationwide civil defence drill today amid simmering tensions with the North over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

North Korea said today it would attack South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along its border, warning it could even turn Seoul into a “sea of flame”.

The prime minister of China, North Korea’s main ally, offered condolences today to South Korea for the sinking of a warship blamed on Pyongyang after promising his country – under pressure to punish the North – would not defend any country guilty of the attack.

NORTH KOREA declared yesterday that it would sever all communication and relations with Seoul as punishment for blaming the North for the sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago.

South Korea’s president said his nation will no longer tolerate North Korea’s “brutality” and said the regime would pay for a surprise torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors.

South Korea’s military has ended its underwater search for dozens of sailors missing from a navy ship that sank following a mysterious blast eight days ago, an official said today.

South Korea’s president proposed today that North and South Korea each set up a liaison office in the other’s capital to break the impasse in their strained relations and facilitate dialogue between the rival states, an official said.

North Korea threatened South Korea with possible punishment today over a skirmish that left one of its warships badly damaged and a crew member dead.

North Korea warned the South of a possible naval clash today, accusing Seoul of sending warships into its waters around their disputed western sea border.