North Korea

Yoon formally assumed his duties at midnight on Monday with a bell-tolling ceremony at Bosingak Pavilion in downtown Seoul.

North Korean hackers stole around $400 million-worth of cryptocurrency through cyberattacks on digital currency outlets last year

The U.S.-drafted U.N. resolution would extend a ban on ballistic missile launches to include cruise missiles or "any other delivery system capable of delivering nuclear weapons."

Griffith formerly worked for the Ethereum Foundation, a non-profit that works to support the technology behind the cryptocurrency ether.

"We do not regard (them) as (a) match for our armed forces," she said, referring to South Korea's military.

Satellite images indicate that North Korea is preparing for a military parade.

President Moon met with leader Kim Jong Un four times, and brokered high-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington.

Russia and China have long sought to get to ease UN sanctions on North Korea

The impoverished nation has also been under a rigid self-imposed coronavirus blockade that has hammered its economy.

It says it needs its arsenal to defend against possible US invasion.

Washington and Seoul are security allies and the United States stations around 28,500 troops in South Korea

Pyongyang has already carried out several missile launches this month

The reported launches are the first since March by the North, which has not carried out a nuclear test or an intercontinental ballistic missile launch since 2017.

IAEA inspectors were kicked out of North Korea in 2009, and the agency has since monitored it from outside.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the exercises were part of the "ironclad" alliance with South Korea.

Russia has reported 669 Covid deaths in the past 24 hours -- a pandemic high for the second day in a row, according to government figures.

Leader Kim himself tearfully thanked his people for not having had any cases at a military parade in October, although analysts have long doubted the assertion.

The White House said Friday that its goal remains "the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula"

She said he was employing "the gangster-like logic of the US."

Kim Yo Jong is a trusted adviser to her brother and was a key voice when inter-Korean tensions mounted last year.

The case announced Wednesday was the first open action taken against North Korea by the Biden administration.

Pictures showed at least four of the missiles with black-and-white cones being driven past flag-waving crowds

The run-up to the congress saw the entire country mobilised in an 80-day drive to boost the economy, featuring extra-long work hours and additional duties for many.

South Korean media said it was the first time since 1995 that a North Korean leader has sent a New Year card to the country's citizens.

On the campaign trail, Biden said he would not meet with Kim without preconditions and accused Trump of "emboldening" the North Korean leader.

Hyon Song-wol has been spotted accompanying Kim Jong-Un while his wife remains out of the public eye since January and his sister has not been seen by his side recently either.

US-based Human Rights Watch conducted interviews with former NK detainees, officials to highlight what it called inhuman conditions at detention facilities.

Kim was sending the US a message that the North's capabilities were improving.

The cavalcade will mark the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party and satellite imagery on the respected 38North website suggests it could be huge.

Pyongyang is subject to a range of restrictions imposed since 2017 that limit its oil imports and ban exports of coal, fish and textiles.