North Korea

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.

A spy working for the South Korean intelligence agency has left a suicide note referencing the Hacking Team controversy

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

Case comes after former spy chief was convicted for attempting to fix election.

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.

Slovenian avant-garde music group will be delighting fans at Kim Won Gyun Music Conservatory in Pyongyang.

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.

The dear leader has 'unconditional love [and] respect of women'.

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

Secretive state claims to have developed drug that cures some of world's most deadly diseases

More than 30% of country's rice paddies have dried up, according to state media.

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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.

Daniel Mekonnen says that he has received death threats for his work in Eritrean diaspora

FTA allows preferential tariffs for 310 products manufactured in industrial park located in North Korea's border town of Kaesong.

Pyongyang's communication isolation protected computers, source believes

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.

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