Australian sportswear brand Rip Curl made a public apology this week after it emerged that some of its ski gear had been made in one of North Korea’s state-owned factories — some of the world’s worst places to work, whose profits help prop up one of its most abusive regimes. The leisurewear, destined to insulate snowboarding Westerners for $300+, was labeled “Made in China” before it made its way to retailers.

Pyongyang on Tuesday warned Seoul and Washington of an expansive retaliation against any attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un or invade the communist nation. Pyongyang sees the proposal to deploy a US missile defense system in South Korea as a provocative act. DW takes a look at how the plans may impact the region. "All the powerful strategic and tactical strike means of our revolutionary armed forces will go into preemptive...

Australian clothing company Rip Curl has admitted one of its winter collections was manufactured in North Korea, but labeled as if the garments had been made in China. The company, which said a supplier shifted the manufacturing to the North Korean facility without informing them, says it was aware of the swap before Fairfax Media first reported it Sunday local time.

Change is in the air in North Korea. After years of being ranked by Skytrax as the world's worst airline, national carrier Air Koryo is undergoing a revolution, according to interviews with passengers and travel agents.

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These are the photos from my trip to North Korea - quite possibly the most mysterious and weird country on the planet. This gallery will focus on getting into the country, and then there will be a few more following. The Koreans are one nation, but not unlike Germany, the country was divided between the USSR and the US following World War 2. The politics of the Cold War meant that North Korea (like East Germany) would become a...

North Korea is currently planning a "terrorist attack" on South Korea according to the South's spy agency. A lawmaker, briefed by the National Intelligence Service (NIS), says leader Kim Jong Un himself gave the order to make preparations.

South Korea's president warned Tuesday that rival North Korea faces collapse if it doesn't abandon its nuclear bomb program, an unusually strong broadside that will likely infuriate Pyongyang. President Park Geun-hye, in a nationally televised parliamentary address defending her decision to shut down a jointly run factory park in North Korea, said South Korea will take unspecified "stronger and more effective" measures to make North Korea realize its...

In a show of defiance, the belligerent ruler of North Korea has called for more satellites to be launched by the hermit kingdom. Kim Jong-un said the North should strengthen itself because its adversaries are getting "ever more frantic to suffocate" Pyongyang. Separately, a South Korean lawmaker has called for the assassination of Kim. "Everybody will be happy if Kim Jong-un is removed. Kim Jong-un is a criminal. Getting rid of a criminal...

South Korea said 70 percent of the U.S. dollars paid as wages and fees for the suspended Kaesong industrial project, run jointly with the North, had been diverted for Pyongyang's weapons program and luxury goods for leader Kim Jong Un. It is the first formal acknowledgement by the South that the 55,000 North Korean workers at the Kaesong complex saw little of the $160 they were paid on average a month.

At the dawn of the millennium in Pyongyang, the leaders of North and South Korea announced a bold agreement for achieving peace and reunification through economic and cultural exchange. Today, one of the few remaining fruits of that historic deal, a jointly-run industrial park located six miles north of the border, faces an uncertain future after its suspension in the latest flare-up of inter-Korean tensions.

The closure of a factory park in North Korea jointly run by both Koreas has robbed the impoverished North of a rare source of legitimate hard currency.

North Korea has executed its army chief of staff Ri Yong-gil, according to unconfirmed South Korean media reports. Senior officials in North Korea have previously been absent from view for long periods only to reappear. However, Gen Ri would be the latest of several high-ranking officials to be purged under leader Kim Jong-un. South Korean media reported that Gen Ri had been executed earlier this month for corruption and "factional conspiracy".

The satellite North Korea fired into space on Sunday is "tumbling in orbit" and incapable of functioning in any useful way, a senior U.S. defense official told CNN. Sunday's launch of the long-range rocket triggered a wave of international condemnation and prompted strong reaction from an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. North Korea maintained the launch was for scientific and "peaceful purposes."

As football fans poured out of the Bay Area stadium, North Korea’s observational satellite zipped by the field at an orbit 300 miles above the Earth at 8:26 p.m., said Martyn Williams, a North Korean technology watchdog.

North Korea has allegedly brought forward the rocket launch for its satellite in time for the Super Bowl. Satellite images of the Sohae rocket launch site in North Korea apparently show fuelling activity usually seen shortly before a launch, according to Washington-based 38 North, a North Korea-monitoring project. Previously North Korea had told the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) it would launch the rocket at some point between...

North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it has said is a satellite, South Korea's defense ministry said, in defiance of United Nations sanctions barring it from using ballistic missile technology.

Tensions at the border between North and South Korea are rising after Pyongyang dropped nearly 300,000 propaganda leaflets south of the demilitarized zone, as well as trash that included hundreds of cigarette butts, according to South Korea police. The airdrop of garbage is unprecedented and includes 600 cigarette butts, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

Defence minister deploys warships in Sea of Japan and Patriot interceptors on land, saying missile will be destroyed if it threatens Japanese territory

A new documentary at the Sundance Film Festival tells the jaw-dropping tale of a South Korean director and actress who claim they were kidnapped and brought to North Korea. The Lovers and the Despot, a new documentary by British film-makers Robert Cannan and Ross Adam, tells one of the most bizarre stories at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. In 1978, the South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee went missing in Hong Kong...