North Korea on Monday fired five short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast - the latest in a series of missile launches ordered by leader Kim Jong-Un amid rising military tensions.
The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned North Korea over its ballistic missile launches and demanded Pyongyang to refrain from further violations of UN resolutions.
North Korea fired what appeared to be a medium-range ballistic missile into the sea on Friday, just days after leader Kim Jong Un ordered further nuclear warhead and missile tests, South Korea's defence ministry said.
North Korea on Wednesday sentenced an American student, who had admitted to stealing a propaganda banner from a hotel, to 15 years hard labour for subversive activities, state media said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon test a nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the North's KCNA news agency reported ...
The Philippines said on Saturday it had seized a North Korean freighter that was covered by harsher United Nations' sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear programme.
North Korea must pay the price for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said, vowing to pressure Pyongyang into accepting denuclearisation.
South Korea Wednesday dismissed China's warning that the planned deployment of a US missile defence system could damage ties, stressing that it was to counter ‘growing threats’ from North Korea.
North Korea ordered all South Koreans to leave the jointly-run Kaesong industrial zone immediately and announced it was seizing all materials left in the complex.
South Korea said it would suspend operations at a jointly run factory park just inside North Korea following the North's long-range rocket launch over the weekend.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday blasted North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket as a blatant breach of five UN resolutions and demanded Pyongyang comply with international law.
North Korea said it had successfully put a satellite into orbit, with a rocket launch widely condemned as a disguised ballistic missile test for a weapons delivery system to strike the US mainland.
