North Korea

The fisheries official was shot dead on Tuesday by North Korean soldiers.

While localised, the typhoon damage is testing the North's state capacity and resources.

Several analysts have played down suggestions that Kim's health is deteriorating.

The North Korean leader's subsequent appearances are allegedly fake and said to have been previously recorded.

The woman took to social media to find assistance after she was allegedly assaulted by the neighbour on multiple occasions.

Authorities are to go through households and forcefully confiscate their dogs if they refuse to give them up.

Kim was addressing a conference of veterans on the 67th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended Korean War hostilities.

Pyongyang insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19

Kim and US President Donald Trump first met in Singapore two years ago but talks over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal have been stalled since.

The two men -- one surnamed Han, 87, and the other Ro, 90 -- say they were captured during the 1950-53 Korean War.

The nuclear-armed North closed its borders in late January as the virus spread in neighbouring China and imposed tough restrictions.

The North has a different history of the conflict, which it knows as the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War.

In recent weeks, Pyongyang has issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of Seoul over anti-North leaflets.

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have criticized Bolton for publishing his book.

In a series of denunciations of Seoul, the North rejected an offer it said had come from the South's President Moon Jae-in to send an envoy for talks.

An explosion was heard and smoke seen rising from the long-shuttered joint industrial zone in Kaesong.

North Korea's harshest criticism of Washington came on Friday, and casts doubt over the future of the two sides' long-stalled nuclear talks process.

The threat comes just a day before the two-year anniversary of the landmark summit in Singapore where Kim Jong Un shook hands with Donald Trump.

The latest development comes just three days before the two-year anniversary of a landmark summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore.

Kim sent Chinese leader Xi Jinping a diplomatic communication congratulating him for China's "success" in controlling the novel coronavirus epidemic.

The North Korean leader has not made a public appearance since presiding over a Workers' Party politburo meeting on April 11.

Trump declined to say if he had direct knowledge from North Korea that Kim was fine.

Pyongyang is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programmes from the United Nations Security Council, US, South Korea and others.

Moon's appeal came after Kim threatened a demonstration of a "new strategic weapon" at a four-day ruling party meeting last week.

Investors remain upbeat about the global outlook after Washington and Beijing eventually reached a trade agreement to ease tensions between the two.

Kim's statement made clear that the North was willing to live under international sanctions to preserve its nuclear capability.

Kim calls for measures to rebuild its economy and "diplomatic and military countermeasures for firmly preserving the nation's sovereignty and security".

Asian investors are also watching for key policy announcements early in the New Year.

Analysts have attributed the latest run of records to upbeat investor sentiment based on a lower risk of recession in the immediate future.

Kim Jong Un said the time had come to bring about a "decisive turn" in the North's economic development.