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North Korea missile launch tests Biden administration, Tokyo Olympics

TV screens show a news programme reporting about North Korea's missiles with file images at an electronic shop in Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday. (AP)

Published on Mar 25, 2021, 10:26 AM IST

North Korea fires cruise missiles in first such test since July

Kim has continued to expand and upgrade his nuclear weapons program, despite agreeing to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” during his unprecedented first meeting with Trump in 2018. (Representative Image)

Published on Mar 24, 2021, 10:28 AM IST

North Korean diplomats leave Malaysia after severed ties

Kuala Lumpur: Kim Yu Song, center, a counselor at the North Korean Embassy to Malaysia, reads out a statement outside the embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

Published on Mar 21, 2021, 1:42 PM IST

UN says no international staff left in North Korea

Published on Mar 20, 2021, 11:55 AM IST

Blinken urges China to convince North Korea to denuclearize

Blinken said Beijing has “a critical role to play” to persuade North Korea to denuclearize because most of the North’s external trade goes through China.

Published on Mar 18, 2021, 4:03 PM IST

North Korean defectors struggle to send money home due to Covid crisis

North Korean men and women use computer terminals at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Published on Mar 12, 2021, 9:05 AM IST

US to accept new visa applications by those denied due to Trump 'Muslim ban'

US to accept new visa applications by those denied due to Trump 'Muslim ban'

Updated on Mar 9, 2021, 7:54 AM IST

North Korea measures to stem Covid-19 worsen abuses, hunger, says UN expert

North Korea, which has yet to report any confirmed Covid-19 cases despite sharing a border with China, has imposed border closings.

Published on Mar 3, 2021, 5:56 PM IST

Russian diplomats leave North Korea on hand-pushed rail trolley

Russian diplomats and family members use a hand-pushed rail trolley to leave North Korea amid Covid-19 restrictions.

Published on Feb 26, 2021, 3:20 PM IST

North Korea's Kim appoints new Navy, Air Force Chiefs in 'generation shift'

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Updated on Feb 25, 2021, 2:05 PM IST

North Korea enslaving political prisoners to fund weapons programme: Report

A 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry report said the prisoners are facing torture, rape, forced labour, starvation and other inhumane treatment.

Published on Feb 24, 2021, 8:54 PM IST

North Korean defector numbers plunge amid pandemic

A North Korean defector and his children stand in front of a barbed wire fence near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju,

Published on Feb 24, 2021, 6:47 PM IST

North Korea hackers targeted vaccine technology: S Korea spy agency

North Korean men and women use computer terminals at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Published on Feb 16, 2021, 6:30 PM IST

North Korea lays out paths to take with South Korea, external affairs

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends at a meeting of Central Committee of Worker's Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Published on Feb 10, 2021, 5:43 AM IST

North Korea ends party meeting with calls for nuclear might

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claps his hands at the ruling party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Published on Jan 13, 2021, 11:28 AM IST

Demoted? Pushed aside? Fate of Kim Jong Un's sister unclear

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2018, file photo, Kim Yo Jong, center, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, talks with South Koran President Moon Jae-in as they watch a performance of North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra at National Theater in Seoul, South Korea. After the name of Kim Yo Jong was found to be missing from North Korea’s newly released lineup for its powerful Politburo, speculation has been rife about the woman widely viewed as the North’s No.2. (Bee Jae-man/Yonhap via AP, File)

Published on Jan 13, 2021, 10:45 AM IST

Covid-19: Here’s the list of countries with no reported case of infection

Palau is a sovereign nation in free association with the United States and hasn't reported a single case of Covid-19.

Updated on Jan 11, 2021, 7:28 PM IST

Kim Jong Un gets a new job title: General secretary of ruling party

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un applauds at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Published on Jan 11, 2021, 7:11 AM IST

North Korea to pursue more advanced nuclear technology, says Kim Jong Un

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Updated on Jan 9, 2021, 5:50 AM IST

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un vows to improve ties with outside world at party meeting

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Updated on Jan 8, 2021, 8:59 AM IST

Kim tells party congress that North Korea’s economic plan failed ‘tremendously’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks on the first day of the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo supplied by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 6, 2021.

Updated on Jan 6, 2021, 11:13 PM IST

Kim Jong Un urges ‘big leap forward’ at rare North Korea congress

Kim is one of the few world leaders yet to congratulate -- or even acknowledge -- Biden’s defeat of President Donald Trump, who dispensed with decades of US foreign policy to hold three meetings with the North Korean leader. There was no mention of the president-elect in the initial accounts of the event.

Published on Jan 6, 2021, 1:18 PM IST

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un opens congress with policy failures admission

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ruling party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday.

Updated on Jan 6, 2021, 6:38 AM IST

‘I will work hard’: North Korea’s Kim thanks people in rare New Year’s cards

Kim, who succeeded his father as North Korean leader in 2011, is facing the toughest challenges of his nine-year rule due to the pandemic, several natural disasters last summer and the stalemate over US-led sanctions and his nuclear weapons program.

Updated on Jan 1, 2021, 10:38 AM IST

North Korea prepares for major party congress amid growing challenges

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chaired a politburo meeting on Tuesday to prepare for the congress, state media reported, without specifying an exact date for its start

Published on Dec 30, 2020, 1:54 PM IST

Japan to join ‘Five Eyes’ to check China’s clampdown on Uyghurs

Uyghurs of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) listen to their national anthem as they hold a rally to protest the 71st anniversary of the People's Republic of China in front of the White House in Washington, DC.

Updated on Dec 29, 2020, 5:35 PM IST

Japan sets record $52 billion military budget with stealth jets, long-range missiles

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan.

Published on Dec 21, 2020, 7:07 AM IST

Donald Trump’s top North Korea envoy urges Kim to return to talks

The two sides have made little progress since Donald Trump walked out of his last summit with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in early 2019.

Published on Dec 10, 2020, 11:57 AM IST

Kim Jong Un’s sister slams Seoul over questioning zero-virus claim

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un.

Published on Dec 9, 2020, 5:56 PM IST

Kim Jong Un’s sister slams Seoul over questioning zero-virus claim

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends wreath laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam March 2, 2019.

Updated on Dec 9, 2020, 8:46 AM IST

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