North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile which appears to be a ballistic missile, Yonhap news reports, citing South Korea’s military.

North Korea has confirmed it "successfully" launched another medium-range ballistic missile on Sunday.

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is opposed to any new countries acquiring nuclear weapons, but that the world should talk to North Korea rather than threaten it.

THE hostel at the centre of a media storm after links to North Korea were revealed has hit back at the “false” suspicion cast upon it.

South Korea's new President Moon Jae-in has been sworn in, vowing to address the economy and relations with the North in his first speech as president.

North Korea says it has detained a US citizen on suspicion of "hostile acts" against the state.

NORTH Korea has accused America’s CIA of conspiring with South Korean to kill their ‘Supreme Commader’ Kim Jong-un.

Donald Trump has spoken numerous times about potential military action against North Korea, but never definitively.

The president also addressed criticism over an apparent shift from his campaign, when he said that he would label China a manipulator on day one in office.

A Finnish journalist has braved North Korea’s notoriously intense and paranoid security regime to smuggle out some extremely rare footage of Pyongyang without any of the pomp and propaganda.

North Korea’s state-controlled Uriminzokkiri news website warned on Sunday

US TROOPS have begun delivering a missile defence system to a deployment site in South Korea in a move that has infuriated China.

The display included 300 “large-calibre” self-propelled guns lining up along a beach and firing all at once.

Media reports claim North Korean authorities have arrested and detained a U.S. citizen — the third American currently held prisoner by the country. Video provided by Newsy Newslook

The US and South Korea have been holding joint military exercises

An American citizen has been detained in North Korea as he tried to leave the country, South Korean media say.

AS THE world holds its breath hoping that North Korea doesn’t blow something up next Tuesday which could provoke Donald Trump into a military response, it’s worth considering what it’s like there.

North Korea responded by resuming its nuclear weapons program, which was on hold after a 1994 deal with the Clinton administration, expelling International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors from the country, and withdrawing from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) in January 2003.

US Vice-President Mike Pence announced the “end of strategic patience” towards Pyongyang, adding that “all options are on the table.”

NORTH Korea’s ballistic missile test may have failed because of sabotage from the United States, according to a former British foreign secretary.