North Korea’s top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said on Sunday, a shakeup that could signal the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is working to silence dissent ahead of a summit with Donald Trump in Sin...
Bashar al-Assad is to visit North Korea, Pyongyang state media has claimed, in what would be a first state visit to the isolated nation under the leadership of Kim Jong-un. The report by the official Korean Central News Agency did not say when the v...
Donald Trump says the summit with Kim Jong-un will go ahead in Singapore on 12 June as planned, marking the start of negotiations between the US and North Korea. The US president seems to have accepted the North Korean position that denuclearisation...
North Korea has said it is still willing to hold direct talks between its leader Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, calling the planned summit “desperately necessary” to resolve potential hostilities after the US cancelled the meeting. “We express our wi...
Donald Trump’s decision to cancel a planned meeting with Kim Jong-un is a gift to North Korea in many ways, according to some analysts. Kim has worked for months to craft an image of a senior statesman and peacemaker, hoping to break decades of host...
Explosives are rigged inside one of the tunnels at the Punggye-ri site. The test site consists of four main tunnels beneath mountains in the north-east, according to analysis by the monitoring group 38 North. Photograph: AP Facebook Twitter Pint...
Kim Jong-un makes good on his promise to close his country's only known nuclear test site, detonating explosives and collapsing its entrances in front of international television crews in a highly symbolic move • North Korea 'destroys' Punggye-ri te...
The short, turbulent history of the Trump-Kim summit, from its surprise announcement in March to its abrupt cancellation on Thursday, is the chronicle of a trainwreck foretold. The debacle had been predicted by just about anyone with an experience o...
North Korea cast further doubt on a planned summit between its leader, Kim Jong-un, and Donald Trump, warning that Pyongyang could make the US “taste an appalling tragedy”. The fate of the summit is “entirely” up to the US, North Korea’s vice forei...
While not many things are known about Kim Jon-un’s childhood, one thing Seoul is certain about is that as a teenager he spent several years at school in Switzerland. That means a lot of Swiss-inspired dishes for Kim at the banquet, including a Kor...
Kim Jong-un visited survivors after dozens of Chinese tourists were killed when their bus plunged off a bridge in North Korea. The state-run KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday that the North Korean leader had visited two survivors of the crash on...
Rockets, satellites, missiles and atoms pepper the landscape in Pyongyang. They are the anchors of funfair rides, feature in extravagant floral tributes to the country’s “dear” and “supreme” leaders from the Kim dynasty, and appear on stamps, apartm...
North Korea has announced it will cease testing nuclear devices and missiles, and promised to shut down its primary nuclear test site at Punggye-ri. If this is genuine, it is a serious step forward, but we should greet it with cautious optimism. We...
Ri Sol-ju, the wife of North Korea's leader, made her first public appearance as first lady last weekend at a ballet performance by a visiting Chinese troupe. Kim Jong-un's decision to give his wife the title is widely seen as a major boost to her s...
North Korea has expressed a desire for the “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula without attaching preconditions such as the withdrawal of US troops, the South Korean president has said. The statement, unconfirmed by North Korea, comes...