North Korea

The annual event this year comes at a time of heightened tensions on a wide range of fronts across the region

All three ballistic missiles launched by North Korea on Monday were medium-range Rodong-class

The missiles were fired from a western region south of the capital Pyongyang

Hamgyong Province received up to 32 centimetres of rain between early Tuesday and mid-Friday

Two senior regime officers reported to have been killed

The ministry said two other senior officials had to undergo re-education sessions

Under an agreement, Tokyo offered apology and a total of $8.5 million to the victims of wartime sexual slavery

The report of the executions comes soon after the South said North Korea's deputy ambassador in London had defected

The 15-member council agreed on Friday to "take further significant measures" against North Korea

The US mainland and the Pacific are now "within the striking range" of the North's army

The two-week annual Ulchi Freedom exercise is largely computer-simulated

Han Son Ik, the first secretary of the North Korean embassy in Dhaka, has been ordered to leave the country

North Korea is now home to a thriving system of semi-legal but policed markets known as 'jangmadang'

Tensions have soared since Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear test in January

The most likely site of the gas centrifuge facility, it said, was an underground complex southeast of the air strip

Isolated North Korea has restarted coded radio broadcasts, presumed to be targeted at its spies

The new launch came after Seoul and Washington announced their decision to deploy THAAD system to the Korean peninsula

"Under Kim Jong-Un, North Korea continues to inflict intolerable cruelty and hardship on millions of its own people.."

The participation of all three countries revealed their "hegemonic scenario for disturbing regional peace and security

Both intermediate-range missiles capable of reaching US bases as far away as Guam

The first missile was launched from the east coast city of Wonsan, a South Korean official says

Both tests were believed to be of a much-hyped, intermediate-range Musudan missile capable of reaching US bases

There are no signs of an imminent launch, says report

Two US citizens are currently serving prison time in North Korea

The ban comes in the wake of UN resolution 2270, which aims to prevent the production of nuclear weapons

In late 2014, ISIS estimated the North's nuclear arsenal at 10 to 16 weapons

The hacking originated from 16 servers based in the North's capital Pyongyang

Kim Jong-Un holding a burning cigarette in a latest photo seems to have dampened the campaign's expectations

Action follows recent UNSC resolution that calls on all UN members to cut off banking relations with Pyongyang

Trump has also said he would be willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un

Within a few hours of its launch the site was hacked by a Scottish teenager

Japanese naval destroyers and anti-ballistic missile Patriot batteries to be ready to shoot down any projectile

North's military General Staff says from now on it would open fire without warning

At least 14 US citizens have been detained by Pyongyang over the past decade, according to Washington

The drill will be held in the waters near Hawaii on June 28

Kim was previously first secretary of the party

Foreign reporters invited to cover specific events in North Korea are subjected to very tight restrictions

The congress, which opened on Friday, has largely been seen as an elaborate coronation for the 33-year-old Kim

Kim opens congress with a defiant defence of the North's nuclear weapons programme

The 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice that has never been formalised by a peace treaty

The first ruling party congress for nearly 40 years drew thousands of selected delegates to Pyongyan

South says 'North Korea has a track record when it comes to abductions'

North Korea is preparing to blow apart a replica of South Korea's presidential Blue House on an artillery range

Lower missile range covers the whole of South Korea and Japan, while the upper range would include US military bases

Any such launch would be another slap in the face for the international community

Saturday's test, personally monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un, latest in a series of provocative moves

The North fired the missile to the northeast at about 6:30 pm and flew for about 30 km

North Korea launched a projectile which is believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile

NK argues that meeting between recent defectors would expose the "fiction" that they fled to SK voluntarily

North Korea would be digging deeper into a hole if it pursued further provocations