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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s public broadcaster mistakenly sent an alert warning citizens of a North Korean missile launch and urging them to seek immediate shelter, then retracted it minutes later, days after a similar error in Hawaii. NHK television issued the message Tuesday on its internet and...

The US State Department has warned Americans travelling to North Korea, to see their journey as a death wish following its frosty relation with the Asian country. The State Department gave the warning on its website urging those wishing to travel to make their burial plans and write a … via...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday (January 15) Moscow is ready to support direct talks between parties involved in the North Korea missile crisis. via PressTV Media RSS – http://ift.tt/2myaFU2 Get more World News

Relations with North Korea had been going from bad to worse until this past week when the North suddenly agreed to send a delegation to next months’ Winter Olympics in South Korea. But one thing – the most important thing – hasn’t changed. North Korea insists … via More Top Stories – Google...

WASHINGTON — President Trump told his South Korean counterpart by telephone Wednesday that he is not considering a so-called bloody nose military strike on North Korea, according to a summary of their conversation released in Seoul. Trump told South Korean President Moon Jae-in that news …...

North Korea may have accidentally hit one its own cities with a missile, it has been claimed. Satellite images show damage caused by a failed test launch that struck Tokchom, a city of 200,000 in the interior of Kim Jong-un‘s secretive state, according to a US government official. … via News...

United States President, Donald Trump, has said on Sunday that he would not negotiate with North Korea. Trump said it would be a waste of time trying to negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear program. Earlier, report emerged that the US had channels of contact with Pyongyang. But the US...

According to a statement on the ABC twitter page, the North Korean foreign minister has said his country sees the latest statements by the US President, Donald Trump, as a declaration of war.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday rallied behind the US warning that “all options” are available to deal with North Korea and declared the time for dialogue over. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Abe said “there is not much time left” to take action on North Korea...

North Korea has threatened to order a nuclear strike on “the heart of the US” if it attempts to remove Kim Jong Un as Supreme Leader. Korean Central News Agency, reports that the threat is a response to the statement made by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, that the Donald Trump administration...

North Koreans will now need to get a visa to travel to Malaysia starting from March 6, 2017. Reuters reports that this is due to the deteriorating relationship between the two countries caused by the murder of Kim Jong Nam at the Kuala Lumpur airport. Malaysia is one of the few countries...

South Korea is reportedly plotting the assassination of North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. CNN reports that asked in parliament Wednesday if there was a special forces unit already assembled that could eliminate North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, Han Min-koo said: "Yes, we do have such a plan."...

US President, Barack Obama has condemned North Korea’s nuclear test. According to Chicago Tribune, Obama condemned the nuclear test "in the strongest possible terms as a grave threat to regional security." "The United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state...

The Governments of China, Japan and South Korea has kicked against the recent nuclear weapon test carried out by North Korea. The three countries said the nuclear test is a clear violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution. South Korean president Park Geun-hye said in an...

North Korea says it now has the power to mount a nuclear warhead on ballistic missiles that could be aimed at its enemies after conducting its biggest nuclear test yet, an explosion compared to the Hiroshima blast. The test, the country's fifth, was condemned by South Korea as "maniacal...

A North Korean editorial on Tuesday said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump can bring about North Korea’s “Yankee Go Home” slogan and ultimately help unify the Korean Peninsula. The article published in state media outlet DPRK Today also referred to Trump’s proposal to hold...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was open to the idea of holding nuclear talks with North Korean dictatorial leader, Kim Jong Un, a move that would signal a sharp shift in American diplomatic policy toward the isolated Asian country. "I would speak to him, I would have no...

British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was detained in North Korea and is being expelled for his reporting, authorities have announced at a press conference. He will be joined on the plane by BBC producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard, the British...

North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un has been hailed as the "Great Sun of the 21st Century" by state media as the country prepares for a rare ruling party congress seen as his formal "coronation". The last congress took place over four days in 1980, when Kim's grandfather, founding leader Kim...