South Korea says it may hold direct talks with the North during a regional meeting this weekend. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said she was willing to talk to her counterpart from Pyongyang, if the chance "naturally occurs". North Korea's repeated missile and nuclear weapon tests have been condemned by neighbours in the region.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday described North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "fool" and a "son of a bitch", just days before Manila hosts an international meeting certain to address Pyongyang's long-range missile tests.

Rare video footage has emerged from North Korea that reveals the growing dependence of its citizens on solar energy to power their homes amid frequent electricity blackouts. At just over a minute long, the video, filmed in March by the Unification Media Group, and published on the Daily NK website, takes the viewer past cyclists on the quiet, residential streets of Chongjin, North Korea’s third largest city in northern Hamgyong Province.

The State Department has announced it will allow four categories of Americans to apply for an exemption after it bars most citizens from traveling to North Korea starting next month. The ban will go into effect on Sept. 1 and will make it a felony to use a U.S. passport to travel to North Korea.

The United States does not seek to topple the North Korean government and would like dialogue with Pyongyang at some point, but only on the understanding that it can never be a nuclear power, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters at the State Department days after Pyongyang tested its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Tillerson reiterated that Washington sought to persuade North Korea to give up its missile and nuclear weapons programs through peaceful pressure.

Donald Trump put to the test by Moscow and Pyongyang. The White House faces the dismissal of 755 US diplomats by Russia and the provocations of North Korea. After a week of several domestic setbacks, Donald Trump is confronted with the situation feared by diplomats. A rise in tensions at the international level. Two fronts suddenly worsened, testing a White House that does not pass for the better prepared to face the crises.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he and President Donald Trump agreed to take further action against North Korea following its latest missile launch. Abe told reporters after the call that Trump pledged to “take all necessary measures to protect” Japan and that Abe praised his commitment to do so. He also called on China and Russia to do more to stop Pyongyang.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it was concerned about recent developments on the Korean peninsula following another missile test by Pyongyang. The ministry also said in a statement that the United States and other countries were trying "to shift responsibility for the situation to Russia and China" and that such attempts were baseless.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Saturday the second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrated his country can hit the U.S. mainland, hours after the launch left analysts concluding that a wide swath of the United States, including Los Angeles and Chicago, is now in range of North Korean weapons.

Sharp rhetoric will get us nowhere. It’s time for the U.S. to abandon its longstanding “One Korea” policy.

North Korea has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, officials in Tokyo and Washington say. The missile was launched from North Korea's Jangang province at 11.40pm local time (2.40pm GMT) and flew for 45 minutes, before landing off the country's east coast. The missile may have flown higher than 3,000km (1,864 miles), a Japanese defence official told state media.

Japan will freeze the assets of five organizations and nine individuals linked to North Korea, including two Chinese entities, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday, outlining new sanctions against the isolated state. Japan's announcement came just hours after the U.S. Senate also voted for new sanctions on North Korea, which followed U.S. media reports this week that intelligence officials had assessed that Pyongyang would be able to field a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by next year, earlier than previously thought.

North Korea's Hwasong-14 ICBM may fly again soon.

The US is to ban its citizens from travelling to North Korea. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement that the ban would be published next week in the Federal Register, to come into effect 30 days later. US officials linked the move to the death of jailed American student Otto Warmbier. Once the ban is in effect, US citizens will need special validation to travel to or within North Korea.

North Korea does not have the ability to strike the United States with "any degree of accuracy" and while its missiles have the range, they lack the necessary guidance capability, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Paul Selva said on Tuesday. "I ... am not sanguine that the test on the Fourth of July demonstrates that they have the capacity to strike the United States with any degree of accuracy or reasonable confidence or success," Selva said while appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Satellite images taken between September and June have shown increased thermal activity at North Korea's main nuclear plant, a Washington-based think tank says. It's a worrying new development for the US and its allies.

Across Western Europe and the United States, immigrants from poorer countries, whether plumbers from Poland or farmhands from Mexico, have become a lightning rod for economic anxieties over cheap labor. The Russian city of Vladivostok on the Pacific Ocean, however, has eagerly embraced a new icon of border-crushing globalization: the North Korean painter.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on the cusp of having something his father and grandfather could only dream of — the ability to unleash a nuclear attack on the United States.

Two U.S. B-1B bombers and American and South Korean fighter jets on Friday conducted an exercise that included practicing attack capabilities at a training range, in a show of force to North Korea days after that regime tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. U.S. Pacific Command said the Lancer bombers took off from an air base in Guam and "practiced attack capabilities by releasing inert weapons at the Pilsung Range."

South Korea reportedly blasted Queen’s triumphant hit single ‘We Are the Champions’ at the North Korea border, in what appears to be a thinly-veiled jab at their long-standing political rivals as the North continues its troubling missile tests.