North Korea

The ribbing is trending on Twitter drawing support as well as criticism that it is racist in taste.

Huge numbers of people in dire need of food and water and many areas face outbreak of disease.

Lethal typhoons leave impoverished country facing food shortages and mass homelessness.

Angry North Korea players abandon Hampden Park stadium after televised image shows them next to South Korean flag.

Hermit state's recently installed dictator gains full control of army after military reshuffle and removal of vice-marshal Ri Yong-ho.

Young female companion pictured with hermit state's new leader may be his sister or partner.

Hackers are reportedly trying to infiltrate South Korea's information system and steal military secrets.

Seoul is ready for dialogues with North Korea, if it abandons provocations, says a senior South Korean governmental official.

North Korea revised its constitution proclaiming itself as a nuclear state while Seoul and Washington refuted the claim.

Plane reportedly carried nuclear negotiator at the time of Bush administration Joseph Di Trani and current National Security Council advisor to President Barack Obama Sydney Seiler.

New construction at the launch site Musudan-ri appears to be of an Iranian model.

Satellite images released by US-Korea Institute 38 north confirm building construction could soon be completed.

Capability to conduct the test suggests that North Korea has the technology to use it in a bomb.

North Korea's resources have dried up because of international sanctions and cessation of arms exports.

North Korea's top military official claimed that the country has modern weapons to defeat the US in a single blow.

If a report from Seoul is to be believed, North Korea is actively preparing for the launch of another heavy ballistic missile.

Pyongyang has spent huge sums of money on its failed rocket launch and on fireworks to celebrate the birth centenary of Kim Il-sung.

North Korea's leader endorses doctrine of father and grandfather in first public speech

North Korea confirms rocket explodes just after lift-off but West and neighbours still angry at breach of missile test agreements .

North Korea may not launch its so called weather satellite on Thursday due to poor weather conditions.

Pyongyang prepares alleged weather satellite launch but US and South Korea claim rocket is ballistic missile.

US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said test would be blatant violation of international obligations under Security Council resolutions.

North Korea is planning a third nuclear test, according to reports.

World leaders concerned over possibility of nuclear weapons falling into hands of terrorists.

Obama spent ten minutes at the viewing platform peering in to the highly fortified North Korean border through the binoculars.

Obama is in South Korea as part of the global summit on nuclear security in Seoul, beginning on Monday.

Japan has threatened to intercept any North Korean rocket launched over its territory.

Punishments of six months labour camps are apparently given to those who did not attend the orchestrated crying sessions or did not seem genuine at the organised crying events.

Kim Jong-il funeral service ignored by foreign dignitaries apart from China.

The next head of the nuclear state, Kim Jong-un was said to be educated in a school on the outskirts of Bern under a false name “Pak Un”.