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North Korean hackers have increasingly targeted cryptocurrency firms and users to generate funds for a country squeezed by sanctions and trade restrictions.

North and South Korea plan to send joint ice hockey team to Winter Olympics in Seoul. North Korean delegation also includes an orchestra.

Donald Trump asked several times where a US member of staff was born, despite her insisting she was born in New York.

Values of numerous forms of digital currency tumble after South Korea, a hotbed for currencies like bitcoin, weighs up trading ban.

French rights groups file lawsuit against electronics giant, accusing it of misleading advertising because of alleged labour abuses at factories.

Speculation has swirled for decades that everyone from North Korean footballers to coaches are punished for not dominating international sporting championships.

Relations between North Korea and South Korea have been strained for many years, but one moment in 2000 shows another future is still possible.

South Korean foreign minister announces Seoul would allocate funds from its own money and would not seek renegotiation with Tokyo.

Hackers targeting February's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, using a booby-trapped Microsoft Word document to infect computers.

In a rare gesture, North Korea has agreed to hold high-level talks with rival South Korea to discuss participation in upcoming winter Olympics.

If things go according to plan, this will be the first time in two years that the rival Koreas will hold direct talks between each other.

Kim Jong-un said he's willing to send a delegation to the Olympics, though he also repeated nuclear threats against the United States.

More than 200,000 women from Korea, Taiwan, China and other nationalities were forced to work at wartime brothels by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Second World War.

South Korean authorities say the Hong Kong vessel supplied 600 tonnes of refined petroleum to a North Korean ship in the East China Sea waters.

A North Korean soldier who defected is said to have anthrax antibodies in his system, raising fears in Seoul over its weapons capabilities.

The pope took particular aim at areas of global tension where President Donald Trump is playing a critical role.

Kim Jong-un's North Korea is a threat but war with America can still be averted with robust diplomacy backed by military strength, Jim Mattis told US troops.

South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the defecting soldier appeared in front of a guard post on the mid-western front at around 8.04am local time.

During the pregnancy, doctors informed the mother that it was extremely unlikely the child would survive

Alongside the rest of the world, experts warn that North Korea is likely profiting from the rise of bitcoin, a cryptocurrency the regime has been hacking, stealing and mining.

South Korea launched the special brigade on 1 December, two days after North Korea conducted a long-range ICBM test.

North Korea's long running film series about how terrible it is everywhere that's not North Korea.

South Korean is studying ways to regulate speculative trading in cryptocurrencies as the latest surge in prices stokes a craze over bitcoins.

The multi-sport event, scheduled to take place from 9 to 25 February 2018, will see as many as 85 robot volunteers in action.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff in the first launch since September.

A recap of the soldier's defection and recovery from his wounds has been played on loudspeakers at the border.

Six F-22 Raptor and up to four F-35A Lightning stealth fighter jets of the US Air Force will engage in enemy infiltration and precision strike drills with South Korean Air Force fighter jets.

The commanders of the responsible military unit and senior officers "might have undergone punishment" following the defection, the intelligence source said.

Report found that Manhattan, the White House, the Pentagon and the US territory of Guam were all possible targets.

The video was released by the UN Command in Seoul and shows the man being chased by North Korean soldiers before crossing the border into South Korea.