Kim Jong-un

Pyongyang switches to pre-colonial time zone to pull back from time zone imposed by Japan.

Widow of late president Kim Dae-jung makes rare visit at a time of tension in the region.

The Sukarno Education Foundation also honoured Kim Il Sung, posthumously in 2001

Hyeon Soo Lim was on a humanitarian mission when he was detained in North Korea.

North Korean leaders have warned that Americans would be wiped out if there is a second Korean war.

Slovenian rock band will perform in rogue nation in August.

North Korean workers and students find it difficult to cope with the 'sambok schedule.'

South Korean reports say Pyongyang preparing launchpad at Dongchang-ri in North Pyongan province.

Pyongyang asserted it was a nuclear weapons state both in "name and reality'.

North Koreans made a remarkable turnout to vote for the only standing candidate in the nation's elections.

The dictator has doubled the number of the country's workers who toil abroad, according to North Korean Watch.

North Koreans set to choose from only one candidate nominated by Kim Jong-un's ruling party in local polls.

Jonathan Powell leaves Pyongyang after four-day diplomatic mission to hermit kingdom.

Pyongyang's National Defence Commission insists the facility produces pesticides and not biological weapons.

Paranoid North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has university-educated medical experts analysing each leaf of lettuce he eats for "germs, toxins and other harmful elements".

'If we delay it may well be too late to save the most vulnerable children'

Kim Jong-un ordered the execution after an official visit to the facility in May, South Korean media say.

Dictator inspects terminal serving the capital with wife Ri Sol-Ju.

North Korea's 'worst drought in 100 years' inflicts severe damage on Pyongyang's hydropower-dependent electricity supplies.

A North Korean troop member, thought to be a teenager, has fled his country to present himself to South Korean forces.

Fire rages in upper floors of well-known 43-storey hotel.

The 28-year-old has been given the top job in the Propaganda Department for her brother.

North Korean doctor and his wife reportedly kidnapped by Isis-backed militants near Tripoli.

Kim Jong-chul, elder brother of ruling North Korean leader Kim, makes rare appearance.

South Korean reports say young dictator executed or demoted deputy armed forces minister So Hong-chan.

The communist nation suddenly cancelled the trip a day before Ban Ki-moon was set to arrive.

North Korea claims successfully miniaturising nuclear weapons, which would allow them to be fired with missiles.

As dictator Kim Jong-Un seeks to tighten his grip on power, brutal purges of party officials continue.

Seoul expresses serious concerns over Pyongyang's latest test-firing of submarine-based ballistic missile.

Submarine weapon would give nation longer reach, second-strike capability