North Korea

General David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, said they were yet to receive alert orders, but were ensuring they were prepared for it.

A new video from YouTube comedian QPark showed New Yorkers' reactions to seeing the nuclear-hungry supreme leader wandering through the city.

Prime Minister Abe's ruling coalition secures a resounding victory in snap polls, giving the bloc a supermajority in the lower house.

Exit polls, including one by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, predict that a challenge by Tokyo's populist governor Yuriko Koike has failed.

The rocky islets – located in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea – are at the centre of the dispute.

Pyongyang sends a direct letter to Australian parliament warning its nuclear power will not be stopped by US President Donald Trump.

The new submarine detected by the US will be North Korea's first operational naval vehicle capable of launching a ballistic missile.

According to reports, the hermit kingdom's hacking unit has swelled to 6,000-people strong - conducting operations even as the country's internet remains weak.

Pyongyang's deputy envoy to the UN says the situation in Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment".

Entitled 'Opposite Number' the 10-part Channel 4 TV drama that was being produced by Mammoth Screen. The show, set in Pyongyang, was targeted by hackers in 2014.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered workman to finish building the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. It is better known as the "worst building in the history of mankind".

South Korean and American navies led by aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan started their maritime exercises on Monday.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also said President Donald Trump told him "he is not seeking to go to war" with North Korea.

The posters were put up by traders in Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh state.

Pyongyang also accused the US of trying to 'make money' from the tensions in the Korean peninsula.

"The North may carry out a simultaneous launch of ICBM and IRBM within a few days in protest against the US' show of military might," a South Korean publication reported.

Pyongyang warns it will fire 'salvo of missiles' at the US territory of Guam over US' recent military actions near the Korean peninsula.

Speculation that North Korea has carried out a nuclear test has followed an earthquake detected in an area where previous tests have taken plac, north-east of Sungjibaegam.

The 100,000-tonne supercarrier is holding maritime exercises along with Japanese naval forces in a move which is bound to further escalate tensions with North Korea.

North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said the reclusive regime is prepared to respond to the US with a "hail of fire, not words".

Russian lawmaker Anton Morozov relayed North Korea's ambitions to his party after a visit to the dictatorship, Russian media reported.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are embroiled in a vicious war of words. But could fiery rhetoric soon erupt into a devastating conflict?

A report from NBC news said that military advisors were surprised by the president's remarks during the 20 July meeting.

US' strategic bombers were flanked by South Korean and Japanese fighters just as President Donald Trump holds discussions with high-ranking officials on handling North Korea.

She has quietly been working her way up the political ranks ever since the leader's anointment in 2011, and is now considered one of his closest confidantes.

South Korea is reportedly developing a non-lethal graphite bomb that can allegedly shut down North Korea's power grid.

Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader's sister, becomes an alternate member of the influential WPK (Workers' Party of Korea) central committee's Political Bureau.

When asked to clarify what he meant, President Trump simply responded by saying: "You'll figure that out pretty soon".

Chuseok, Korea's harvest festival, is taking place - and millions of people are leaving the cities to visit their ancestral homes. But for North Korean refugees this is impossible.

China refuses to recognise North Korean woman as refugees, leaving many to be sold as wives where they must work in the fields and be violated regularly.