Trump has exposed rifts within America’s alliances when it comes to the North Korean nuclear issue. By contrast, Kim Jong-un is building ties with China and Russia, writes Kent Harrington.

Providing access to computers in schools is not enough and governments will need to review life-long teaching to keep up with the pace of automation that threatens many jobs, according to a major report.

It is no surprise that the contemporary beauty industry often follows whatever Korea is doing, and the concept of “skip-care” will not be an exception to this rule.

Ireland faded to tied 11th as the United States of America ended their 20-year wait for victory in the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships by hoisting the Espirito Santo Trophy aloft at Carton House.

As optimism surges on Korea, US president Donald Trump should know that empty promises have long been a favourite tactic of the regime in the north, argues Eli Lake.

America’s trade deficit widened in February, reaching the largest monthly gap between exports and imports of goods and services in a decade.

After a year of fraught relations with the North, the South saw the Winter Olympics as a chance to show itself to the world as a stable democracy safe for investment, says Andrew Hammond

The tension was thick. The mood was glacial. And the siblings were sparring.

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side yesterday under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger,

A Government Minister wants to lead a peace mission to North Korea.

The famous market volatility index, the measure of nervousness and price action, is at an historic low.

Joe Ward is the only Irish boxer left standing at the AIBA World Elite Championships after cruising to within one win of a third successive medal at this level in Hamburg, Germany.

Three North Korean short-range ballistic missiles have failed, the US military said, in a temporary blow to Pyongyang's rapid nuclear and missile expansion.

A major push to win new business with Mexico, Korea, Canada, and Japan is to be made as part of the Government’s Brexit-proofing efforts.

Eli Lake says that US citizens should want their government to undermine the gulag state of North Korea, not help preserve it with another compromise    

Donald Trump was speaking in his own words when he vowed to retaliate against North Korean aggression with "fire and fury", the White House has said.

Tobin Harshaw talks to non-proliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis about North Korea’s nuclear programme and why the regime’s recent ICBM launch shouldn’t have come as a surprise

Roisin Upton is hoping to make up for lost time with the Irish women’s team as they look to land a 2018 World Cup spot over the course of the next two weeks.

There are some big stories in the market for sure.

Although the US claims it is ready to ‘solve’ North Korea, the people there don’t seem to care much for the rhetoric, says Hyung-jin Kim.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

South Korea is to fine Nissan's operation in the country for manipulating emissions tests on its sports utility vehicles.

North Korea’s supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier, who was arrested while visiting the country, to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state.

Further recognition of Ireland’s ascension to world hockey’s top table came yesterday when Craig Fulton was named as the International Hockey Federation’s coach of the year.

WHILE the Western world keeps its eye on Iran, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, as well as Islamic terror groups, a more insidious danger lurks in eastern Asia that could prove to be far more deadly.

Craig Fulton believes Ireland’s qualification for the 2016 Olympics in Rio “will change the sport forever” here.

Pilgrims is an excellent restaurant with excellent food and it presents a happy, uplifting face to the world.

Sponsorless, under-funded and waiting on others to decide their Olympic fate — yet the Irish men’s hockey team are one of the country’s most successful Irish national sides in any sport in 2015.

The record of high-ranking officials ‘purged’ by the eccentric megalomaniac leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, is continuing to grow as he tightens his grip on power, writes Paul French.

An 80-year-old South Korean man was unconscious and experiencing breathing difficulties after setting himself on fire during an anti-Japan protest in Seoul, yesterday, hospital officials said.

North Korea’s vice premier was executed by firing squad this year after showing discontent with the policies of the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean media report said yesterday.

North Korea will establish its own time zone next week by putting the clocks back by 30 minutes.

North Korea will establish its own time zone next week by putting the clocks back by 30 minutes.

David Harte says the Olympic qualifying process for men’s hockey gives “perceived lower ranked teams” more of an opportunity of making it to Rio De Janeiro.