The assassination of Kim Jong Un's older half-brother at an airport in Malaysia has placed China on alert.

While much remains mysterious about the assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother in Malaysia this week, this much is clear: Nearly all of the North Korean dictator’s potential rivals are now dead. In the nation’s patriarchal dynasty, Kim Jong Nam, 45, represented a possible alternative if elites ever moved to oust Kim Jong Un, 33. The older brother had lived outside North Korea for years, frequenting casinos in Macau and occasionally criticizing his younger sibling’s regime. His only other brother, Kim Jong Chol, 35, isn’t seen as a main threat to usurp power.

North Korean female agents using poisoned needles have assassinated the half-brother of the North's leader Kim Jong-Un in Malaysia, South Korean media reported Tuesday. Officials in Seoul and Kuala Lumpur could not confirm the death of Kim Jong-Nam, once seen as heir apparent in the North. Malaysian police said an unidentified Korean had been taken sick at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and since died.

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North Korea fired a ballistic missile into nearby seas on Sunday, drawing a joint rebuke from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump.

A North Korean defector in Russia faces involuntary repatriation after spending years as a forced laborer, according to local reports. Moscow newspaper Kommersant reported Sunday that Choi Myong Bok, a 54-year-old North Korean national, is in police custody and at risk of deportation. Online newspaper Fontanka published a similar report. Choi, who had worked as a manual laborer, escaped state surveillance for some time and remarried an ethnic Korean woman in Russia before he was detained.

North Korea’s elite are outwardly expressing their discontent towards Kim Jong-un and his government as more outside information trickles into the isolated nation, the country’s former deputy ambassador to London has said. Thae Yong-ho defected to South Korea in August last year and since December has been speaking to media and appearing on television to discuss his defection and his life as a North Korean envoy.

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North Korea says it could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile "at any time," even as Pyongyang appeared to offer Donald Trump an avenue for future talks. Tensions on the Korean peninsula have risen considerably since leader Kim Jong Un said in his new year's message that the country was close to testing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the US mainland.

North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities and ballistic missile defense programs constitute a "serious threat" to the United States, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Sunday. The United States is prepared to shoot down a North Korean missile launch or test "if it were coming towards our territory or the territory of our friends and allies," Carter said during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

More than 30 North Korean defectors have been arrested in China, and sources say they are soon to be repatriated to their country of origin. A China-based source said Chinese authorities apprehended 30 North Koreans, traveling in three groups, as they made their way from the Chinese city of Shenyang to the Vietnam border on Nov. 25, South Korean news service Daily NK reported Thursday.

Newly-released satellite images show that North Korea's prison camp system may be expanding.

Twenty years after it began changing lives in other countries, the internet isn’t even a concept for the average North Korean—so much so that most people in the country of 25 million literally don’t know what they are missing. And that’s by design.

When Christian Petersen-Clausen visited North Korea last year, he was struck by how few people had cellphones. In a world where it seems virtually everyone is now connected by mobile technology, the Hermit Kingdom lived up to its name. But when the China-based photographer returned to Pyongyang earlier this year, phones were suddenly everywhere.

The story of 83 American captives and the "Digit Affair."

NORTH Korea has made a state request to officials in China pleading for them to stop referring to ‘glorious leader’ Kim Jong-un as FAT. Ministers have reportedly asked their neighbours to refrain from referring to the chunky Swiss cheese fan as Jin San Pang or ‘Kim Fatty III’ in media or conversations.

The Chinese Government is reportedly bulking up its Military Bases along the North Korean Border, in preparation for the collapse of Kim Jung-un’s Regime. Reports have come in that Chinese Military personnel evacuated residents in the city of Longjing, which is located on the Chinese side of the border with North Korea. A large scale military facility has been underway in Longjing since August. The news of China beefing up its military come amid rising tensions in the area, following Pyongyang’s Nuclear Test in early September.

With two days to go until the US presidential election, it's easy to lose track of the troublesome menace that is North Korea. However, geopolitics took a new turn today as Pyongyang-controlled news broadcaster KCNA announced Kim's request for senior South Korean politicians and soldiers to be killed. KCNA is known for some outlandish claims, especially considering that it is the first news source globally to have discovered a 'unicorn lair'; although threats to wipe out the political and military establishments of South Korea should perhaps be taken more seriously.

It’s been more than two months since Typhoon Lionrock dumped nearly eight inches of rain on North Korea in three days, triggering a catastrophic flood along the border with China that killed at least 138 people and left another 400 missing. And now, with sub-zero winter temperatures looming, the situation is perhaps even more dire than in the flood’s immediate aftermath.

PENTAGON chiefs have dispatched its weirdest secret “Star Wars” weapon from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii to intercept North Korean nuclear missiles bound for California. With its huge white globe attached to a table like structure, it has to be mankind’s wackiest looking seagoing vessel ever. According to The Sun, America is pinning its hope on averting a nuclear apocalypse on this extraordinary self-propelled 85 metre, 50,000-tonne mammoth structure.