The regime said the countries who voted for the sanctions will 'pay a heavy price for what they have done'

More than half of the 94,978 foreign nationals who were allocated new PPS numbers last year had employment activity during 2016, while new data from the Central Statistics Office also shows 589 PPSNs have been issued in the past five years to people from ‘unknown’ countries.

A North Korean soldier has been seen racing for the border in a vehicle and then on foot before his former comrades shoot him at least five times as he limps into South Korea.

North Korean soldiers have shot and wounded a comrade who was crossing a jointly controlled area at the heavily guarded border to defect to South Korea, the South's military said.

Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on RTÉ One's Late Late Show tonight to promote her new book 'What Happened' and discuss her links with Ireland.

The US has seen no need to shoot down North Korean missiles test-fired in Japan's direction, but a future missile launch that threatens American or Japanese territory will "elicit a different response from us", defence secretary Jim Mattis has said.

US stocks rallied to record highs as Hurricane Irma weakened without causing as much damage as many had feared, and a North Korean holiday passed without new missile launches.

From Pukguksong to ‘Gangnam Style’, what do you tell your kids when the possibility of a third world war has never loomed larger, asks Catherine Shanhan.

President Donald Trump has said that "talking is not the answer" when it comes to North Korea.

“Nineteen hyenas and a broken vacuum cleaner control the White House.”

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 has said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "will regret it fast" if he continues his threats to US territories and allies.

A pre-emptive, surgical strike against Kim Jong Un is risky, but his regime will soon have a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile, say Isabel Reynolds and Enda Curran.

While US action is needed over the death of Otto Warmbier in North Korea, the goal must be to ensure no other student meets his fate, writes Dan DePetris.

Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week after more than a year in captivity, died on Monday, his family said.

A US college student who was released by North Korea in a coma has died.

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.

North Korea said it was banning Malaysians from leaving the country as its diplomatic battle escalated dramatically over the poisoning death of Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean leader's estranged half brother.

North Korea has denied that its agents masterminded the assassination of the half-brother of leader Kim Jong Un, saying a Malaysian investigation into the death is full of "holes and contradictions".

The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been assassinated at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, according to Malaysian officials.

A Texas woman who underwent surgery on her jaw now speaks with a British accent. She has a rare neurological disorder.

Thirteen North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country have defected to South Korea, Seoul officials said.

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.

It's hard to know what to believe when it comes to the secretive state.

The UN Security Council condemned North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket that world leaders called a banned test of ballistic missile technology.

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

China wants to keep pushing ahead with cultural exchanges with North Korea, China’s foreign ministry said, after an all-female North Korean pop group formed by leader Kim Jong Un abruptly cancelled a Beijing concert and went home.

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

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.

Our glorious Taoiseach believes this nation’s little people would be happy for him to remain at the helm well into the 2020s, with his ‘regime’ following a path similar to that of the Kim dynasty in North Korea.

North Korean officials warned the United States that another war on the Korean Peninsula would leave no Americans alive to sign a surrender document as the country marked the anniversary of the armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War more than six decades ago.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has executed 70 officials since taking power in late 2011 in a “reign of terror” which far exceeds the bloodshed of his dictator father’s early rule, South Korean officials said.

Warnings are appearing on Instagram accounts in North Korea that claim access to the popular photo-sharing app is being denied and the site blacklisted for harmful content.

The UN human rights investigator for North Korea said he would probe allegations of an estimated 20,000 North Koreans working in slave-like conditions abroad, mainly in China, Russia, and the Middle East.

The United States is “deeply concerned” about North Korea’s nuclear advances, a senior US official said after a US research institute predicted Pyongyang could possess as many as 100 nuclear weapons within five years.

The head of a UN Commission of Inquiry said more efforts were needed, including the use of balloons and computer hacking, to tell the North Korean people about its damning report on human rights conditions in their country run by Kim Jong-Un.

A Canadian woman detained in China along with her husband on suspicion of stealing state secrets has been released on bail.

US director of national intelligence James Clapper says the cyber attack against Sony demonstrated a new threat from North Korea.

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.

The United States says its new round of sanctions against North Korea is just the opening salvo in its response to an unprecedented cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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.