North Korea spy satellite explodes mid-air in failed launching attempt
North Korea’s latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit ended in a mid-air explosion, Pyongyang said late Monday, hours after its announcement of a planned launch was criticised by Seoul and Tokyo. Japanese broadcaster NHK ran footage of what appeared to be a flaming projectile in the night sky, which then exploded into […]
Kim Jong-un ‘apologises for killing of South Korean official’
Seoul said the man was shot dead and set alight while allegedly trying to defect to North Korea.
North Korea blows up inter-Korean liaison office near border with South
Statement came minutes after an explosion was heard and smoke seen rising from the long-shuttered joint industrial zone in Kaesong.
North Korea threatens to send army into border zone
North Korea’s army has warned it is ready to enter the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas. The threat is partly in response to defector groups in the South sending propaganda material north. Over the weekend, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said she’d ordered the army to prepare for the […]
North and South Korea exchange gunfire after Kim Jong-un reappears
Such incidents across the world’s most heavily fortified border are rare – the last occurred in 2017. It is not clear what led the North to open fire.
North Korea’s Kim ‘alive and well’: Seoul
Kim has not made a public appearance since presiding over a Workers’ Party politburo meeting on April 11, 2020.
Train likely belonging to North Korea’s Kim seen at resort town: US monitor
There has been growing conjecture about Kim’s health since his conspicuous absence from the April 15 celebrations for the birthday of his grandfather Kim Il Sung