Britain on Monday announced economic sanctions against individuals and organizations from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and North Korea under new U.K. powers to punish human rights offenders.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North blew up a liaison office to ramp up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration.
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North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a choreographed display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
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North Korea said it was cutting off all communication channels with South Korea on Tuesday, a move experts say could signal Pyongyang has grown frustrated that Seoul has failed to revive lucrative inter-Korean economic projects and persuade the United States to ease sanctions.
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The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Thursday charging 28 North Koreans with conspiring to funnel at least $2.5 billion to the country’s nuclear weapons and missile program.
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North and South Korean troops exchanged fire along their tense border Sunday, the South’s military said, the first such incident since they took unprecedented steps to lower frontline animosities in late 2018.
Read moreNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang, state media said Saturday, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he may be seriously ill.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang, state media said Saturday, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he was seriously ill.
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The South Korean government said Tuesday no unusual activity has been detected in North Korea after unconfirmed reports described leader Kim Jong Un as in fragile condition after heart surgery.
Read moreNorth Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea said, calling it “very inappropriate” at a time when the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreNorth Korea fired two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea on Monday, South Korean officials said, resuming weapons demonstrations after a months-long hiatus that may have been forced by the coronavirus crisis in Asia.
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Prosecutors unsealed a superseding federal indictment Thursday that puts the Chinese tech company Huawei at the center of a conspiracy to steal trade secrets and to do business with the globally sanctioned countries Iran and North Korea.
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A German court on Tuesday dismissed a legal bid to prevent the closure of a hostel located on the grounds of the North Korean embassy in Berlin that was said to have been a significant source of foreign income for the East Asian country.
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The U.S. strike that killed Iran’s top military commander may have had an indirect casualty: a diplomatic solution to denuclearizing North Korea.
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South Korea’s Constitutional Court dismissed Friday an appeal by survivors of wartime sexual slavery over a controversial deal between Seoul and Tokyo, as the two nations sought to mend ties in the face of mounting threats from Pyongyang.
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A new satellite image of a factory where North Korea makes military equipment used to launch long-range missiles shows the construction of a new structure.
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North Korea said Saturday that it successfully performed another “crucial test” at its long-range rocket launch site that will further strengthen its nuclear deterrent.
Read moreNorth Korea insulted President Donald Trump again Monday, calling him a “heedless and erratic old man” after he tweeted that Kim Jong-un wouldn’t want to abandon a special relationship between the two leaders and affect the U.S. presidential election by resuming hostile acts.
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The parents of former U.S. hostage Otto Warmbier, who died after being released from North Korea in a coma in 2017, are seeking to find and shut down illicit North Korean business assets around the world, to hold its government accountable for human rights abuses.
Read moreNorth Korea is “no longer interested” in summits with the United States unless Washington offers new concessions in their nuclear negotiations, Pyongyang said Monday, even as Trump postponed a joint military drill with South Korea as a sop to the North.
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