North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for more weapons tests targeting the Pacific Ocean, a day after his nation for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.

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.

"(The media) don't want to report that I spoke out forecefully against bigotry, hatred and violence."

America's top military officer has told his counterparts in South Korea that the United States is ready to use the "full range" of its military capabilities to defend itself and its allies from any North Korean provocation.

North Korea has test-launched a ballistic missile that landed in the Sea of Japan.

An American citizen has been detained in North Korea over unspecified hostile acts against the country.

North Korea has tested a new type of high-thrust engine to propel its rockets.

South Korea's Constitutional Court has formally removed impeached President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into political turmoil.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the Malaysian ambassador has been labelled persona non grata and ordered to leave within 48 hours.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use its nuclear weapons first unless its sovereignty is invaded, in a speech during a critical party congress that struck a conciliatory note in the face of international pressure over its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised scientists involved in the country's recent rocket launch that he said struck a "telling blow" to enemies - and ordered them to press ahead with more.

Western scientists doubt new claims of success, but each test will increase the country’s knowledge, until it has a long-range warhead, says Sharon Squassoni

South Korea says it has agreed to halt propaganda broadcasts after North Korea expressed regret over a recent land mine blast that maimed two South Korean troops.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his frontline troops are in a "quasi-state of war" and ordered them to prepare for battle a day after the most serious confrontation with South Korea in years.

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.

North Korea says it has succeeded where the greatest minds in science have failed.

North Korea claims to have succeeded where the greatest minds in science have failed by producing a drug which can prevent and cure Mers, Ebola, Sars and Aids.

North Korea says it has test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile, a move experts in Seoul see as an attempt to raise tensions ahead of joint military drills between the United States and South Korea.

North Korea has announced it is willing to impose a temporary moratorium on a nuclear test if the US scraps military drills with South Korea this year.

North Korea has announced it is willing to impose a temporary moratorium on a nuclear test if the US scraps military drills with South Korea this year.

North Korea has issued a furious statement against the United States for imposing sanctions against its government figures and defence industry after the cyber-attack against Sony.

North Korea has hurled racial slurs at President Barack Obama as the communist state blamed the US for shutting down its internet amid the Sony hacking row.

Sony has announced a limited cinema release of The Interview, putting the comedy back on to screens after a huge international row.

Key North Korean websites were back online after an hours-long shutdown that followed a US vow to respond to a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington blames on Pyongyang.

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.

Even when Kim Jong Un was nowhere to be seen, he was everywhere.

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance in five weeks, the country’s official news agency reported.

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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.

North Korea has proposed talks on its plans to send athletes and cheerleaders to the Asian Games in South Korea.

North Korea is preparing to charge two American detainees for carrying out what it says were hostile acts against the country.

There has been a “serious” accident at a building site in Pyongyang this week, with “casualties”, but no death toll has been mentioned by state media.

With no one else on the ballot, supreme leader Kim Jong Un was not only elected to the highest legislative body in North Korea, he won with the unanimous approval of his district, which had 100% turnout.

China’s foreign ministry has accused Japan’s prime minister of hypocrisy and said he would not be welcome in China after he visited a shrine honouring Japan’s war dead.

North Korea said today that it executed Kim Jong Un’s uncle as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the leader’s former mentor, long considered the country’s No 2.

North Korea announced it had sacked leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, long considered the country’s second-in-command, saying corruption, drug use, gambling, womanising and generally leading a “dissolute and depraved life” had caused Pyongyang’s highest-profile fall from grace since Kim took power two years ago.

North Korea has angrily denied a report its ruler used Adolf Hitler’s memoir as a leadership guide, threatening to kill the authors of the report.

An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of “compulsory labour” for unspecified crimes against the state.

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

Hackers apparently broke into at least two of North Korea’s government-run online sites yesterday, as tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea vowed today to restart a nuclear reactor which can make one bomb’s worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.