A drought that slashed food production by 20 percent has resulted in malnutrition for nearly 25,000 North Korean children. UNICEF, the United Nations' children's fund, said the children need emergency care and has asked donors for $18 million for North Korea, The Guardian reported Tuesday. While UNICEF's request for funds is rising, donations are falling, according to the organization. Sources say that whenever Pyongyang tests a nuclear weapon...

A Japanese official says there are signs of possible preparations for a launch in recently analysed satellite images.

North Korea on Friday announced the arrest of a university student from Ohio for what it called a "hostile act" orchestrated by the American government to undermine the authoritarian nation. In language that mirrors past North Korean claims of outside conspiracies, Pyongyang's state media said the University of Virginia student, who attended high school outside Cincinnati, entered the country under the guise of a tourist and plotted to destroy North Korean...

North Korea says it has arrested a US student on charges of committing a "hostile act"

North Korean scientists have invented a hangover-free alcohol, according to the Pyongyang Times. The state newspaper says the "suave" liquor will spare you wincing when you wake, despite boasting 30%-40% alcohol. The brew is reportedly made from a type of indigenous ginseng called insam and glutinous rice, and cultivated by an organic farming method. North Korean media is known for making often outlandish claims about its domestic achievements.

North Korea has launched an estimated 1 million propaganda leaflets by balloon into South Korea amid increased tension between the rivals following the North's recent nuclear test, Seoul officials said Monday. A Cold War-style standoff has flared since North Korea's claim on Jan. 6 that it tested a hydrogen bomb. South Korea resumed blasting anti-North propaganda broadcasts and K-pop songs from border loudspeakers. North Korea quickly responded by restarting...

North Korea on Saturday called for the conclusion of a peace treaty with the United States and a halt to U.S. military exercises with South Korea to end its nuclear tests. The isolated state has long sought a peace treaty with the United States, as well as an end to the exercises by South Korea and the United States, which has about 28,500 troops based in South Korea. "Still valid are all proposals for preserving peace and stability on the peninsula and in Northeast...

South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s nuclear test last week.

ONE by one they disappeared — men, women and children vanishing from coastal towns of Japan. It began in the autumn of 1977, when a security guard, vacationing on the shore, went missing in September. Two months later, a 13-year-old girl on her way home from school never made it. She was last seen just 240 metres from her house. Weirder were the couples. The next July, one pair parked at a lovers lane went missing.

North Korea said Tuesday its nuclear test was not intended to be a provocation or threat, as it laid out plans for a weapons system capable of obliterating the entire United States. A lengthy commentary by the official KCNA news agency underlined the North's claim that last Wednesday's test was of a powerful miniaturised hydrogen bomb which marked a "new high stage" in the country's search for a credible nuclear deterrent.

Footage of a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test released by Pyongyang two days after it announced it had conducted the country's fourth nuclear test last week was faked, according to an analysis by a California-based think tank.

With Kim Jong Un turning up the heat with North Korea’s fourth nuclear test, South Korea responded Friday by pumping up the volume. Literally. At noon on North Korean leader Kim’s birthday, South Korea fired up loudspeakers along the heavily fortified border and resumed the propaganda blasts that brought the reclusive regime to a war footing in August -- and then to the negotiating table. South Korea has reinforced defensive positions near...

ARLINGTON, VA—Calling the effort a dramatic display of the Asian country’s powerful capabilities, officials from the RAND Corporation confirmed Wednesday that North Korea has successfully harvested wheat.

A 5.1 magnitude tremor is detected in North Korea, close to a site previously used to conduct nuclear tests.

"Every issue that we are facing violates the core principles of democracy," says a South Korean labor leader. The government says it's cracking down to protect national security.

North Korea’s homegrown computer operating system mirrors its political one – marked by a high degree of paranoia and invasive snooping on users, according to two German researchers. Their investigation, the deepest yet into the country’s Red Star OS, illustrates the challenges Pyongyang faces in trying to embrace the benefits of computing and the internet while keeping a tight grip on ideas and culture.

A North Korean pop group cancelled its Beijing concerts last week when Chinese authorities objected to “anti-American” lyrics in the show, said a source with ties to both countries. The Moranbong band was visiting China with the State Merited Chorus and had been due to perform in Beijing on 12 December, but cancelled three hours before the show was to start.

The United Nations Committee Against Torture has called for an immediate end to the forced repatriation of North Korean defectors in China. The U.N. body and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees are urging for the free and safe passage of North Korean refugees, Voice of America reported Tuesday. The Committee Against Torture said on Nov. 17-18 that members reviewed China's fifth country report, submitted to fulfill a requirement as a signatory to the U.N. Convention Against Torture.

A senior United Nations official has called for the Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court over "gross human rights violations." U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein testified before the Security Council after permanent members China and Russia attempted unsuccessfully to block the meeting on procedural grounds.