Leader Kim Jong-un declared the test “a new birth” for the North’s rocket industry, state news agency KCNA said, according to the BBC. He said the engine would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite launch capability, it added. The development, ...

The situation was at a “crossroads”, but must not be allowed to develop into a conflict, he said after hosting US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. Mr Tillerson spoke of “dangerous levels” of ...

Tillerson began his first Asian visit as secretary of state in Japan on Wednesday and will travel to China on Saturday with a main focus on finding a “new approach” on North Korea after what he described as two decades ...

Channel NewsAsia has confirmed with Do Hee Youn, an activist with the Citizens Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees, that the man in the video is Kim Han Sol, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Channel NewsAsia. ...

Malaysia was outraged by the murder of the North Korean leader’s estranged half brother at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13 by assassins using VX nerve agent, a chemical listed by the United Nations as a weapon of mass ...

Three of North Korea’s ballistic missiles fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) after flying some 1,000km (620 miles), in what PM Shinzo Abe called a “new stage of threat”, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. They were fired ...

Kang Chol must leave Malaysia within 48 hours, the foreign ministry says, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. The move comes after the envoy said his country “could not trust” Malaysia’s handling of the investigation. Kim Jong Nam, the ...

Malaysian police investigators were able to pinpoint the substance of the half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Malaysian Online. “The chemical substance has been identified as S-2-diisopropylamino-ethylmethylphosphonothioate or ‘VX nerve agent’,” ...

In a Reuters interview, Trump also said China could solve the national security challenge posed by North Korea “very easily if they want to,” ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to exert more influence to rein in Pyongyang’s increasingly bellicose actions. ...

Malaysian police on Wednesday named a senior official in North Korea’s embassy and a staffer at its state airline, who are wanted for questioning over the murder last week of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader, ...

State-run Bernama news agency reported that she has been remanded in custody for seven days along with a woman who was caught at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Wednesday, two days after Kim Jong Nam was assaulted there with what ...

The device was described as a “surface-to-surface medium-to-long-range ballistic missile”, according to the Korean state news agency KCNA, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. South Korea’s defence ministry called it an armed provocation to test the response of US ...

North Korea tested ballistic missiles at an unprecedented rate during 2016, although some experts have said it is years away from developing an ICBM fitted with a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the U.S., according to Reuters. “Research and development ...

The construction of the world’s biggest hotel in Pyongyang began in 1987. The hotel was supposed to boost North Korean tourist industry. But it was abandoned in 1992, reportedly because of the poor quality of materials. The budget of the ...

North Korea claimed Friday’s test showed it had a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on ballistic missiles, a possibility that increases fears for US allies in the region and also poses a threat to US bases in South Korea, ...