North Korea has denied orchestrating a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures in retaliation for an upcoming Hollywood movie that depicts an assassination plot against leader Kim Jong Un.

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.

North Korea’s state media confirmed what was never in doubt — a 100%, no-abstention poll victory for leader Kim Jong-Un in the country’s stage-managed parliamentary election.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s uncle, seen as his nephew’s political regent and one of the most powerful men in the country, has apparently been ousted and several associates executed, South Korea’s spy agency said.

North Korea has refused to sign a non-aggression pact that US secretary of state John Kerry offered last week on condition of denuclearisation.

The US is open to talks with North Korea – but only if it complies with UN Security Council resolutions, senior officials have said.

North Korea’s top government body is proposing high-level nuclear and security talks with the US days after a planned meeting with rival South Korea collapsed.

Seoul says it has decided to withdraw the roughly 175 South Koreans still at a jointly run factory complex in North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take “substantial and high-profile important state measures,” state media said yesterday, fuelling speculation that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations.

North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a US research institute said, pointing to recent satellite photos.

North Korea has threatened to wage a "full-fledged confrontation" against the US for what it calls "continued hostility".

North Korea warned today that the US mainland is within range of its missiles, and said Washington’s recent agreement to let Seoul possess missiles capable of hitting all of the North shows the allies are plotting to invade the country.

South Korean warships fanned out across the Yellow Sea today to search for debris from North Korea's failed rocket launch, which brought humiliation for the country's new young leader and condemnation from a host of nations.

North Korea has announced that Kim Jong Un has been officially named supreme commander of the military, further strengthening his authority after the death of his father, long-time North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

NORTH Korea warned the world there would be no softening of its position towards South Korea after Kim Jong-il’s death as Pyongyang strengthened his son and heir’s authority with a new title: Great Leader.

North Korea warned the world today there would be no softening of its position toward South Korea’s government after Kim Jong Il’s death.

THE world watched anxiously as North Korea staged a huge funeral in the capital, Pyongyang, for former leader Kim Jong-il, searching for signs of what to expect from the isolated nation that may be close to attaining nuclear weapons capacity.

Tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang today, wailing and clutching their chests as a black hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il’s body wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.

North Korea’s next leader led a funeral procession for his father Kim Jong Il through Pyongyang’s snow-covered streets.

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.

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

North Korea’s Kim Jong Il made his youngest son a four-star general today in a major promotion seen as confirmation that he is to become the country’s next leader.

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 accused North Korea today of firing a torpedo that sank a naval warship in March, killing 46 sailors in the country’s worst military disaster since the Korean War.

North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il has pancreatic cancer, it was reported today.

A thin-looking Kim Jong Il made a rare public appearance today as North Korea paid solemn respects to his father, the country's late founder, on the 15th anniversary of his death.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Il has officially named his heavy-drinking, English-speaking 26-year-old son as the next leader.

The third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been assigned to a post at the country’s all-powerful National Defence Commission, it was reported, a possible sign that he is being groomed as his father’s successor.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made a triumphant return to parliament today after the formality of his reappointment.

North Korea’s official news agency said Kim Jong Il was re-elected as leader of the communist nation.

State-run television gave North Koreans their first glimpse of the country’s “auspicious” rocket launch – and of an apparently healthy leader Kim Jong Il mingling with farmers and watching bears at the zoo.

Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied in Pyongyang in a display of might and loyalty underscoring their government’s guiding “military first” principle amid tensions with rival South Korea

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 HUGE blast in North Korea hit a mountainous area close to an underground missile base that was listed as a possible uranium enrichment site, it emerged yesterday.

Kim Jong Il, the communist bloc’s first leader to inherit power from his father, was re-elected as North Korea’s top man today, as his isolated regime struggles to win US guarantees for its security in exchange for its nuclear weapons program.