Now playing Next North Korea North Korea kicks off congress, but foreign invitees refused entry North Korea’s Kim Jong-un praised the country’s nuclear success as he opened a rare party congress. Thousands of delegates applauded the leader as he 06/05/2016
Now playing Next no comment 'Propaganda balloons' sent over border from South to North Korea US and South Korean activists sent propaganda leaflets over the border to the North on Friday. They attached boxes to ten large balloons filled with 30/04/2016
Now playing Next North Korea North Korea: US citizen given 10 years of hard labour for spying North Korea sentenced a naturalised US citizen to 10 years of hard labour on Friday for spying and subversion. China’s Xinhua news agency reported 29/04/2016
Now playing Next North Korea North Korea raises tensions with two missile launches North Korea has reportedly launched two missiles. On Thursday South Korea’s defence ministry said its neighbour had fired what appeared to have been 28/04/2016
Now playing Next North Korea North Korea fails another missile launch, says Seoul South Korea says the intermediate-range ballistic missile crashed seconds after the test launch. 28/04/2016
Now playing Next Korea North Korea 'fires ballistic missile from submarine' North Korea looks to have fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Saturday off its east coast. The reports come from South Korea’s military 23/04/2016
Now playing Next North Korea A rare glimpse into Pyongyang's underground metro system It’s the deepest underground rail system in the world as well as perhaps the least used by tourists. But Australian travel writer and photographer 20/04/2016
Now playing Next world news Japan PM slams North Korea ballistic missile engine test The Japanese prime minister has strongly condemned North Korea’s reported testing of an engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile. Shinzo Abe 10/04/2016
Now playing Next North Korea North Korea says long-range missile engine could reach United States North Korea claims to have successfully tested a long-range missile engine, giving it the ability to launch a nuclear strike on the United States 09/04/2016
Now playing Next Korea North Korea videos imagine destruction of Seoul and Washington The North Korean propaganda machine is at it again. And the least that can be said is that Steven Spielberg has nothing to worry about. Pyongyang’s 05/04/2016
Now playing Next no comment The school bell rings in North Korea North Korean schools hold ceremonies to welcome new students at the start of the school year. North Korea’s official news agency KCNA said that North 03/04/2016
Now playing Next North Korea Keeping the nuclear genie in the bottle and away from terrorists Since the end of the Cold War and despite the close attention of the IAEA and governments, nuclear material has gone astray in vast quantities, and the technology to make bombs with it has spread. Has 31/03/2016
Now playing Next Korea North Korea fires five 'projectiles' into the sea North Korea said it has fired five short-range projectiles amid heightened tension over the country’s nuclear and rocket programmes. South Korea 21/03/2016
Now playing Next North Korea North Korea fires ballistic missile into sea At least one ballistic missile was reportedly fired by North Korea on Friday in a further sign of defiance by its leader Kim Jong Un in the face of 18/03/2016
Now playing Next USA Tough new US sanctions against N.Korea on same day American student jailed New sanctions include the freezing of North Korean government property in the US and a ban on US exports to North Korea 17/03/2016
Now playing Next North Korea 15 years' hard labour for US student arrested in North Korea Otto Warmbier is accused of trying to steal a banner bearing a propaganda slogan from a hotel 16/03/2016
Now playing Next world news North Korea nuclear warhead test 'soon' reports KCNA North Korea will test a nuclear warheads and test-launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads soon, according to the country’s 15/03/2016
Now playing Next world news North Korea 'to test nuclear warhead soon', says Kim Jong Un North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country will soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying 14/03/2016
Now playing Next North Korea "Now you will go to sleep": the bizarre reality of North Korean tourism A Polish amateur photographer has smuggled out a series of images of North Korea which show the elaborate charade that Kim Jong-Un’s regime presents 14/03/2016
Now playing Next North Korea Tensions mount on Korean Peninsula, as Pyongyang fires two more missiles North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea as tension with Seoul and Washington continues to mount 10/03/2016