Tension grows as Pyongyang shifts missiles

Seoul North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula.

Dennis Rodman gets his 'Gangnam Style' mixed up in Pyongyang

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman appears to have mixed up his Koreas on a visit to Pyongyang, tweeting that he expected to run into South Korean rapper Psy on his trip to the North.

No Psy in sight for Dennis Rodman in Pyongyang

Ex-NBA star appears to have mixed up his Koreas on a visit to Pyongyang.

Something fishy in Pyongyang

The people of North Korea’s capital have received a special gift from recently deceased leader Kim Jong Il: loads and loads of fish.

Pyongyang has plenty of form in shooting down false hopes

Peter Foster WHILE it might be tempting to read North Korea's offer as a policy turnaround following the death of Kim Jong-il, the reality is likely to be far more mundane.

Pyongyang fires short-range missiles

North Korea has fired two short-range missiles off its west coast amid international alarm at its planned long-range rocket launch, South Korean newspapers say.

Tom Allard

Pyongyang propaganda with a light touch in Indonesia

Tom Allard JAKARTA: After the craziness of Jakarta's early evening traffic, the ambience is oddly calming, an ersatz oasis from the barely contained chaos outside.

Pyongyang shows off nuclear secret

David Sanger WASHINGTON: North Korea has shown two visiting US nuclear experts a vast new plant it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, raising the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its...

Delegates arrive in Pyongyang

Delegates have started arriving in Pyongyang ahead of a rare party meeting.

Secret trove of files on N Korean rights abuses

Philip Dorling US and South Korean intelligence agencies are sitting on a huge archive recording torture, starvation and gross human rights abuses in North Korea.

Japan powerbroker's surprise North Korea visit

Martin Fackler A political aide to the Prime Minister of Japan made a sudden, rare visit to North Korea on Tuesday. Japanese officials refused to say what he was doing there.

S. Korea's president fires 'unsavoury' spokesman

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has fired her spokesman over an unspecified "unsavoury" act midway through her trip to the United States this week, Yonhap news agency reports.

N. Korea details Bae's 'hideous crimes'

Seoul: A Korean-American tour operator jailed in North Korea had smuggled in anti-Pyongyang material and sought to establish a base to overthrow the regime, the country's Supreme Court has said.

US citizen gets 15-year labour sentence in NKorea

Choe Sang-Hun North Korea said on Thursday that its Supreme Court had sentenced a US citizen to 15 years of hard labour for committing hostile acts against its government.

Jailing of US citizen ratchets up N Korea tension

Sangwon Yoon The US has called for the immediate release of an American citizen after North Korea sentenced the man, Pae Jun Ho, to 15 years' hard labour for unidentified "hostile acts".

NKorea not open to pleas for jailed American

Choe Sang-Hun North Korea said that it would not use an imprisoned US citizen as a political bargaining chip, rejecting the possibility of allowing any prominent Americans to visit the North to request the...

US tour on coup charge in North Korea

A US tour operator is facing indictment in North Korea on charges that he tried to overthrow the government there, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday.

North Korea refuses South access to Kaesong

SEOUL: North Korea has barred a delivery of supplies to South Koreans in the closed Kaesong industrial zone, as the South's president said it was time to stop rewarding Pyongyang's provocations.

N Korea 'moves two more missile launchers'

North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, reports say.

We will defend ourselves, US tells N Korea

North Korea plans to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor, which would allow it to resume production of weapons-grade plutonium, state media says.