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 claims it has aimed rockets at the specific co-ordinates of South Korean media groups.

THE North Korean capital of Pyongyang is emerging from a tough few months.

North Korea was today injecting liquid fuel into the rocket it intends to send into space soon.

Kim Jong Il’s son was identified today as head of a top decision-making body of the ruling Workers’ Party, a post that now gives him authority over political as well as military matters in North Korea.

North Korea vowed today to uphold Kim Jong Il’s son as “supreme commander” as the campaign to install the young man as the next leader of the socialist nation gained pace one week after his father’s death.

KIM JONG IL, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic long-time leader, was reputed to have a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine.

North Korea published a photo in state media today of leader Kim Jong Il’s youngest son and heir apparent Kim Jong Un – the first official image of him to be released.

Jerry Guo looks at how power is shifting in the hermit state, the Kim dynasty and who really pulls the strings

Delegates to North Korea’s biggest political meeting in decades were gathering in the country’s capital today amid speculation that leader Kim Jong Il is to appoint one of his sons and other family members to key positions as part of a succession plan.

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”.

North Korea threatened today to block cross-border traffic and blow up any South Korean loudspeakers blasting propaganda northwards after a six-year suspension, as tensions soared over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

NORTH Korea said South Korea fabricated evidence implicating the North in a torpedo attack in order to pick on the North and any attempt at retaliating for the warship’s sinking would be answered with “all-out war”.

In the face of world-wide condemnation North Korea today claimed damning evidence that it torpedoed a South Korean warship was fabricated.

North Korea warned the US and South Korea of possible deadly consequences in retaliation for what it called psychological warfare involving journalist tours to the South’s portion of the buffer zone between the rivals.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reviewed a massive military parade through Pyongyang today marking the anniversary of the country’s army.

North Korea today boasted that it successfully tested a nuclear weapon, sparking a barrage of global condemnation and threats of harsh sanctions over an underground blast that appeared to thrust the volatile communist state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reviewed a massive military parade in central Pyongyang today as the communist state marked the 60th anniversary of its ruling party with vows to “mercilessly crush” American imperialists if they attack.

A NORTH KOREAN fighter plane intruded into South Korea’s airspace yesterday and the communist state, again using strident rhetoric, said nuclear war could break out on the peninsula at any time.

North Korea has warned the United States it can strike American targets anywhere in the world if it is provoked, it was reported today.