Two women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea's leader have pleaded not guilty as their trial started in Malaysia.

North Korea's senior envoy to a leading UN disarmament body says his country "categorically" rejects a Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions over its nuclear and missile programmes.

Prohibiting Americans from visiting North Korea prevents them from being held to political ransom and sends a message that Pyongyang is out of line, says Andray Abrahamian

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.

Donald Trump has threatened North Korea with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" after suggestions the reclusive communist state has cleared a final hurdle to being able to strike the United States with a nuclear missile.

Two women accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will stand trial in October.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has attended a pop concert hailing the successful launch of his country's first intercontinental ballistic missile.

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's ambassador to Malaysia faces a deadline to leave the country after authorities moved to expel him and accused Pyongyang of trying to manipulate the investigation into the poisoning of Kim Jong Nam.

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".

A dispute over custody of the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother is raging between Malaysia and Pyongyang as inquiries continue into his apparent assassination.

North Korea faces collapse if it does not abandon its nuclear bomb programme, South Korea's president warned.

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.

North Korea has accused the US of targeting it with anthrax and wants the UN Security Council to look into America’s “biological warfare schemes”.

DVDs of Sony’s controversial film The Interview will be dropped into North Korea by balloon, a South Korean activist says.

In the latest of embarrassing emails to leak online from Sony, studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin exchanged jokes about what president Barack Obama’s favourite films might be, focusing mostly on films starring and by African Americans.

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

NORTH KOREA: In North Korea, there can be only one Kim Jong Un.

Speculation about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is mounting after his name was missing from a list of dignitaries celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party.

An American man recently sentenced by North Korea to six years of hard labour says he is digging in fields eight hours a day and being kept in isolation, but that so far his health is not deteriorating.

Japan is to lift some of its sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s decision to create a committee to investigate the fate of at least a dozen Japanese who were abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s.

South Korea has continued an escalating rhetorical battle on the Korean Peninsula, with an official saying rival North Korea “must disappear soon”.

North Korea represents a threat not just to Asia but to the US, US President Barack Obama said yesterday, as he and South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye warned they would respond firmly to any “provocations”.

Kim Jong Un’s uncle has been executed, with the state media calling the leader’s former mentor “worse than a dog”.

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.

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

A US citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for what North Korea has described as hostile acts against the state started life at a “special prison” today, state media said.

North Korea has lashed out again at South Korea over a small public protest in Seoul in which demonstrators burned effigies of the North’s leaders.

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a stark warning to North Korea not to test-fire a mid-range missile.

A top North Korean decision-making body issued a pointed warning today, saying that nuclear weapons are “the nation’s life” and will not be traded even for “billions of dollars”.

The country with the developed world’s biggest income gender gap now has its first female president, but Park Geun-hye already has South Koreans wondering whether she will improve the status of women in a society still dominated by men.

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’s top military official — a key mentor to new leader Kim Jong-un — has been removed from all posts because of illness, state media said in a surprise announcement that shakes the core of the authoritarian country’s power structure.

North Korea’s top military official – a key mentor to new leader Kim Jong Un who also served under his late father – has been removed from all posts because of illness, state media has announced.

North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and “pattern of provocations” are a serious threat to Asian and world security, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.

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.

North Korea’s next leader burnished his diplomatic skills, solemnly welcoming a private South Korean mourning delegation and offering his thanks, as state media called Kim Jong Un a “sagacious” leader and revealed a new title that gives him authority over political matters.

IT WAS the scenario strategists from Beijing to Washington feared.

NORTH KOREA was in seclusion yesterday, a day after it announced the death of its leader Kim Jong Il, as concern mounted over what would happen next in the nation that is trying to build a nuclear arsenal.

SOUTH KOREA agreed yesterday to a North Korean offer of high-level military talks, a major breakthrough in the crisis on the peninsula which improves the prospect of renewed aid-for-disarmament negotiations.

South Korea’s president declared the reunification of Korea was drawing near, in a surprising statement amid soaring tension on the divided peninsula.

America's special envoy to North Korea has described Pyongyang’s claim to have secretly built a new uranium enrichment facility as provocative and disappointing but not a crisis or a surprise.