US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will pay a fresh visit to North Korea on Sunday and meet leader Kim Jong Un as the administration's hopes rise of a denuclearization deal, the State Department said.

North Korea is right to blame internal American politics for the lack of denuclearization progress, because almost everyone around the US president wants it to fail, Brian Becker from the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition told RT.

US President Donald Trump has attacked the Iranian leadership, accusing it of sowing "chaos, death and destruction" across the Middle East.

US military officials have put the brakes on a proposed rail project that would connect the Korean Peninsula, underscoring growing differences between Washington and Seoul on engagement with the hermit kingdom.

STUNNING photos show what life is like inside North Korea, one of the most isolated and secretive nations on Earth.

China has said it is "irresponsible" of President Trump to suggest it was not putting enough pressure on North Korea over its nuclear programme.

A group of 89 elderly South Koreans are travelling into North Korea to see relatives they have not seen since the Korean War of 1950-1953.

• The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Wednesday new actions directed at Chinese and Russian firms that it says have facilitated illicit shipments on behalf of North Korea.
• The designations come as the U.S. continues to push North Korea to denuclearize and remains locked in a trade war with China.

THE world’s largest disaster relief agency says a food shortage in North Korea could have “potentially catastrophic effects” in the country that saw three million people die in the 1990s from famine.

WORRYING new satellite pictures show North Korea could be backtracking on a historic deal with US President Donald Trump.

North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration and pledges to denuclearise, reports say.

The Pentagon said 55 cases of remains were transferred from North Korea to the US and departed on a US military plane.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in North Korea to press leader Kim Jong-un for details on his plans for denuclearisation.

Intelligence officials tell Washington Post that evidence points to plans by Pyongyang to keep secret sites hidden, lie about size of arsenal
 

Friday’s meeting is their fifth talk and the first since the June 12 U.S.-North Korea summit.

DONALD Trump declared victory after North Korea pledged to “work towards” denuclearisation, but satellite images show the world might have been fooled.

AS the US President made grand claims on Twitter about what his summit achieved, this is what Pyongyang commuters had to say.

Shortly after the end of U.S. President Donald Trump's historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump sat for an interview with Fox News Reporter Sean Hannity where he said he and Chairman Kim "got along very well." 

DONALD Trump talked it up as a historic victory, but not all was as it seemed. His deal with Kim Jong-un has some gaping holes in it.

China is deploying missiles in the disputed South China Sea to intimidate and coerce its neighbours, US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said.