world news Kim returns to North Korea empty-handed His offer to dismantle the Yongbyon nuclear facility in exchange for a lifting of all sanctions was rejected by the US. 02/03/2019
world news US-North Korea talks fail due to sanctions disagreement US-North Korea talks fail due to sanctions disagreement 28/02/2019
North Korea US diplomats hold 'productive meeting' with North Korean counterparts US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are set to meet for a second time on February 27 and 28 in Hanoi, Vietnam. 09/02/2019
China Kim Jong-un visits China following historic Trump summit North Korea's leader met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on his third trip to Beijing since March. They were expected to discuss sanctions and the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. 19/06/2018
Singapore What Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un agreed in Singapore This is what the two leaders signed. 12/06/2018
North Korea US says North Korea talks "moving in right direction" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says talks with North Korea are "moving in the right direction." Pompeo said a North Korean envoy is travelling to Washington, DC, to deliver a letter from Kim Jong-un to President Trump 31/05/2018
North Korea North Korea reportedly collapses tunnels at nuclear test site North Korea has collapsed tunnels at its nuclear test site — South Korean media reports 24/05/2018
Korea Kim Jong-Un has "committed" to de-nuclearization The South Korean Foreign Minister has reported that Kim Jong-Un has "given his word" on de-nuclearization, adding that it's the first time the words have come directly from the North Korean leader. 19/03/2018
USA USA-North Korea relationship: 'It's complicated' Perplexed by Trump's plan to visit Kim Jong Un, the man he threatened – just months ago – of "fire and fury like the world has never seen"? Here's some useful historical context. 09/03/2018
South Korea News of Trump-Kim meeting greeted with hope and caution "I don't know what's in Trump's head, and I have doubts as to whether he's serious," says one Tokyo resident. 09/03/2018
North Korea The talking thaw: North and South Korea A delegation of senior South Korean officials travelled to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He expressed his "firm will to vigorously advance" inter-Korean ties and pursue reunification 06/03/2018
North Korea South Korea and North Korea to talk Talks between South Korea and North Korea are expected to focus on the North's missile stocks and relations with the US. 05/03/2018
View From peaceful Pyeongchang Olympics to lasting Olympic peace: View The goodwill and meeting opportunities generated by the Olympic deal should be utilised to bring about peace, argue professors Chung-in Moon and Timo Kivimaki. 09/02/2018
world news Symbolic 'Doomsday Clock' moves 30 seconds closer to midnight World security situation now "as dangerous as it has been since World War II," says Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. 25/01/2018
Japan Japan seeks European support over "unprecedented threat" from North Ko Tokyo wants to strengthen an international alliance against Pyongyang as tensions rise over its nuclear weapons programme 21/01/2018
world news North and South Korea hold fresh talks over Winter Olympics Officials from North and South Korea hold further talks over Pyongyang's plan to participate in next month's Winter Olympics. 15/01/2018
USA Trump: my nuclear button is 'much bigger' than North Korea's The US president has again mocked Kim Jong Un, tweeting: "I too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my button works!" 03/01/2018
North Korea South Korea offers border talks with North Korea Just a day after North Korea signaled it might send a delegation to the Winter Olympics, the South responded by offering high level talks on the border 02/01/2018
North Korea Kim Jong-un warns United States: 'I have a nuclear button on my desk' North Korean leader declares all of the US mainland is now within range of his country's nuclear weapons. 01/01/2018
North Korea US places sanctions on two North Korea missile developers North Korea has defied years of multilateral and bilateral sanctions and this latest standoff between the Washington and Pyongyang has raised fears of a new conflict on the Korean peninsula. 27/12/2017
Australia Australian police arrest man suspected North Korean economic agent Choi Han Chan, 59, is charged with brokering the sale of ballistic missile components and coal in order to boost the sanctioned North Korean regime's struggling economy. 17/12/2017
USA US and North Korea trade angry recriminations at UN Security Council m Ministerial meeting called at week's end by anxious council chair Japan. 16/12/2017
world news US and South Korea hold airforce drills amid mounting tensions with Py In a major demonstration of military muscle, US and South Korean airforces held their largest ever joint aerial drills on Monday amid rising tensions 04/12/2017
North Korea North Korea blames US for ‘nuclear war mania’ Pyongyang slams a US military drill in the region as a provocation that could push the world to the brink of nuclear war. 03/12/2017
USA Hawaii: Cold War-era sirens resume The US state resumes monthly warning sirens as the threat from North Korea intensifies. 02/12/2017
North Korea How many missiles, nuclear weapons and submarines does North Korea have? The North Korean military in numbers 01/12/2017
