North Korea released a New York University student Joo-Won Moon on Monday, six months after detaining him for crossing the country's border from China.
North Korea may be planning a satellite launch sometime in the next few weeks, CNN reports. North Korea may be planning a satellite launch sometime in the next few weeks.
North Korea said on Tuesday that it was ready to use nuclear weapons against the United States and announced that it has restarted operations at its atomic bomb fuel production plants.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula further intensified on Friday as North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un warned that his country was in a "quasi-state of war" with the South.
North and South Korea on Thursday exchanged artillery fire along their heavily fortified border. The incident marked an apparent escalation of a dispute over the South's propaganda broadcasts along the border, which Pyongyang insisted must stop within 48 hours.
North Korea has built a 220-foot launch tower at its missile base. The new tower is capable of launching a longer-range missile than the rocket test-fired back in 2012.
With President Barack Obama announcing on Wednesday that Washington and Havana were about to complete their rapprochement and restore full diplomatic relations, there remain only three countries in the world with with the United States has no official ties.
American feminist leader Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Peace laureates and two dozen other activists from 15 countries on Sunday used a bus to cross the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea in what they declared to be a landmark event.
North Korea claimed on Wednesday that it has been able to miniaturize nuclear warheads, making them small enough to fit on a missile. If verified, the development would "mark a major advance in the country's military capabilities and the threat it can pose to the world," the newspaper judged.
The regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un used an anti-aircraft gun to execute the country's defense minister, Hyon Yong Chol, South Korean media reports. This is not the first time an "enemy" of the regime has been executed in such a manner.
The wife of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un this week made her first public appearance in almost four months, the South Korean Yonhap newswire said based on reports by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
Mexico "forcibly detained" a North Korean ship after it ran aground off its Gulf coast last year, and Pyongyang claims the country is preventing the vessel's release due to pressure from the United States.
North Korea is able to hit the West Coast of the United States with a nuclear weapon mounted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), USNI News reported based on a Pentagon intelligence assessment.
The U.S. ambassador in South Korea was wounded in a stabbing incident on Thursday, prompting Pyongyang to qualify the assault as a "knife attack of justice" reflecting "anti-U.S. sentiment." A man shouting slogans against joint South Korean-U.S. war games slashed Mark Lippert's face and arm.
The North Korean government underlined its anger at joint U.S.-South Korean war games on Monday by firing two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea. Pyeongyang always protests the annual drills and warned of "merciless" retaliation on Monday; nevertheless, the regime of dictator Kim Jong Un seemed to strike a particularly angry note this year.
The United States has no "monopoly" on nuclear weapons, the mouthpiece of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party warned on Friday as Pyongyang stepped up its rhetoric ahead of the annual joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.
Foreign runners will not be allowed to compete in the annual Pyongyang marathon this year as North Korea is limiting participation to its own citizens. The decision was apparently made over concerns over the Ebola virus, which North Korean state media have suggested was created by the U.S. military as a biological weapon.
