'Suspected explosion' causes earthquake near China-North Korea border
It was unclear what caused the explosion.
It was unclear what caused the explosion.
The US President is in Japan ahead of a state visit.
It comes after Pyongyang carried out another military drill on Saturday.
South Korea has said North Korea fired a number of projectiles into the sea.
Donald Trump was among the topics discussed by the two leaders during their first one-on-one summit.
Otto Warmbier fell into a coma after apparently being tortured behind bars and died days after arriving back in the United States.
Both leaders have met in Russia’s eastern city of Vladivostok, after Kim travelled by train from the North.
The talks will be Kim’s first face-to-face meeting with another head of state since his meeting with Trump.
The country’s news agency reported that Kim Jong-Un guided the test-fire.
Kim said his personal relationship with Trump remains good.
The half-brother of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un was killed at Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017.
Trump’s Treasury Department imposed the sanctions to tighten international pressure on North Korea.
A nuclear summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, between Kim and Trump ended without agreement on 28 February.
Siti Aisyah was held for two years on suspicion of killing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s half brother.
Despite being a product of the Cold War and spouting Marxist and Maoist sounding jargon, Kim is far more of a recreation of the Chosun Emperors than a throwback to Joseph Stalin or Chairman Mao, writes Tom Farrell.
Analysts say the election is held largely as a political rite to enable the authorities to claim a mandate from the people.
The images were taken before Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s meeting in Hanoi for their high-stakes summit, which ended in failure.
The activity was recorded days after the summit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
A meeting between the two countries this week ended unexpectedly early.
Trump and Kim were meeting in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi for talks.
Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam today and tomorrow.
The two leaders will hold talks in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on 27 and 28 February.
An expert explains how we could be “headed for a nuclear arms race”.
US-North Korea talks over Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal have stalled since the first summit in June.
Jo Song Gil, 48, has been acting ambassador in Rome since October 2017.
The North Korean leader says the state might be compelled to explore a ‘new path’ of defense if US sanctions remain unchanged.
Blyth Spartans have struck an unlikely new sponsorship arrangement.
The warning from the North yesterday came days after the US said it was imposing sanctions on three senior North Korean officials.
The pair are hoping to follow-up their historic summit in Singapore in June.
It said the policy could return if the US doesn’t end tough economic sanctions against the impoverished regime.
The top US diplomat met with Kim for around two hours this morning in the North’s capital.
Trump told a cheering crowd at a campaign rally that there was once tough talk “back and forth” between him and the North Korean leader.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has invited his North Korean counterpart to meet in New York next week.
It’s an unprecedented plan that would have been unthinkable not long ago.
The North has previously been hit with sanctions for showing off its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The country also takes aim at China’s rise as a military power.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was supposed to go to the state.
The three-day reunion is the first for three years and follows a diplomatic thaw on the peninsula.
The judge said the evidence presented in court since the trial started in October pointed to a “well-planned conspiracy”.
Recent UN sanctions have deepened the food crisis in the secretive state.