North Korea has begun a full-scale investigation into the accident that occurred during the launch of a warship this week, state media KCNA reported on Friday. Pyongyang has said the incident on Wednesday was caused by a loss of balance while the vessel was being launched,

After watching the whole course of the accident,’ Kim Jong-un, in a ‘stern assessment,’ pronounces what he had seen ‘a serious accident and criminal

Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country and urging the world body to hold North Korea’s leader accountable for gross

Pyongyang is dependent on the world's second-largest economy, but the "blood-cemented alliance" doesn't extend to security issues.

Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying Pyongyang's syste

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North Korean soldiers serving with Vladimir Putin's army have been accused of going on drunken rampages and terrorising local Russian communities. Pyongyang sent around 11,000 soldiers to Russia last year, in a bid to boost the Kremlin's troop numbers on the front lines.

Eight decades after the partition of the Korean peninsula, the Catholic Church in South Korea remains one of the few actors that keeps alive the hope for reconciliation.