Someone in North Korea is in a lot of trouble.

Pyongyang also said it has made strides that could bring it closer to mounting a warhead on one of its ballistic missiles and launching a long-distance nuclear strike.

NORTH Korea has reportedly executed a vice premier and banished two other top officials to rural areas for re-education in the latest purge to hit the secretive government.

A set-top box offering video-on-demand services has been unveiled by the state broadcaster KCTV in North Korea, according to local reports.

A diplomat at the North Korean embassy in London has defected and fled abroad with his family, BBC News understands.

Soldiers sceptical after unseasonably high numbers of reptiles lead Pyongyang to suspect South Korean infiltration

North Korea has fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile, the South Korean military has announced, according to the local Yonhap news agency. The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff says the missile test “was unsuccessful” and failed in its initial stage.

He’s also North Korea’s Chief Supreme Inspector.

“There are many positive aspects to Trump’s ‘inflammatory policies,’” says an editorial in the totalitarian regime’s official press.

South Korea's defence ministry detected the dawn launch effort, which Japan condemned as an unacceptable and "provocative" act.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, proposing a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation.

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North Korea has brought in more than 100 journalists f-rom around the world to make sure that the 7th Congress of its ruling Workers' Party gets global attention.

North Korea is having its first party congress in 36 years.

On the first day of North Korea's biggest political gathering in 36 years on Friday

North Korea on Friday opened the first full congress of its ruling party since 1980

China and Russia urged the United States on Friday not to install a new anti-missile system in South Korea, after Washington said it was in talks with Seoul in the wake of nuclear arms and missile tests by North Korea.

North Korea attempted unsuccessfully to launch two suspected powerful intermediate-range missiles on Thursday, South Korean defense officials said, bringing the number of apparent failures in recent weeks to three.

The United States warned on Tuesday it would consider "other" options, which could include new sanctions or security steps, if North Korea continued nuclear and ballistic missile testing.

North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Saturday off its east coast, South Korea said, amid concerns that the isolated state might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a ruling party meeting in May.