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10 million North Koreans face food shortages after bleak harvest

2018 harvest was the smallest in a decade amid dryness: UN FAO

North Korea launches short-range projectiles in signal to Donald Trump

The South Korean military initially described it as a missile launch, but subsequently gave a more vague description

N Korea slams US NSA's 'dim-sighted' call for sign of denuclearisation

The North Korean vice minister also warned that there would be no good if the United States continued "to throw away such remarks devoid of discretion and reason"

North Korea has started rebuilding key missile-test sites: Analysts

The revelation comes days after the breakdown of the second summit meeting between the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, and President Donald Trump last week

Will Kim give up N Korea's nuclear crown jewel Yongbyon at Trump summit?

A deal to shutter Yongbyon would represent Trump's first tangible victory toward reducing Kim's nuclear capacity since he granted an unprecedented meeting last June

Former N Korean diplomat urges missing old colleague to go to South Korea

Jo Song Gil, the 44-year-old who was until recently North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy, disappeared with his wife after leaving the embassy without notice in early November

Personal details of 1,000 North Korean defectors leaked in hacking

The hack was made at a centre which is tasked with helping North Korean defectors settle in South Korea and get accustomed to its capitalist society

Sanctions may 'block path to denuclearisation', North Korea warns US

The warning from the North on Sunday came days after the US said it was imposing sanctions on three senior North Korean officials over human rights abuses

China, North Korea officials meet amid stalled nuclear disarmament talks

China is North Korea's most important ally, but has agreed to increasingly strict United Nations economic sanctions over Pyongyang's drive to develop nuclear weapons

Complete denuclearisation needed to end sanctions: Ban Ki-moon to N Korea

North Korea is seeking security guarantees from the US and relief from international sanctions

Why cold war between North and South Korea could be approaching an end

The two Koreas are actually starting to demilitarize the Demilitarized Zone

No nuclear threat from N Korea? 13 undeclared bases identified, says report

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to work towards denuclearisation at their landmark June summit in Singapore

N Korea readies nuclear, missile sites for international inspectors: Report

Washington has demanded steps such as a full disclosure of the North's nuclear and missile facilities, before agreeing to Pyongyang's key goals

North Korea's Kim Jong-un slams international sanctions as 'brigandish'

The US insists that it would retain sanctions on the regime until it takes concrete steps toward denuclearisation

N Korea hasn't stopped nuclear program, evading oil sanctions: UN report

The transfer of petroleum products to North Korean tankers at sea remains 'a primary method of sanctions evasion' involving 40 vessels and 130 associated companies

Peace plays: How foreign companies have lost a bundle in North Korea

Companies from South Korea to Russia and China are looking to cash in on easing tensions with Pyongyang

Entrepreneurs in North Korea aren't as rare as you'd think

Ian Collins, an Australian instructor at Choson Exchange, ran a four-day workshop for 80 people north of Pyongyang, in November

Entrepreneurs in Kim Jong-un's North Korea aren't as rare as you'd think

North Korea today is where China was in the early 1980s

Travelling to North Korea? Carry cash

A three-day group tour costs just about Rs 35,600 for each person, and a 10-day package comes for Rs 130,000

China, not US, likely to drive possible reforms in North Korea

China now represents more than 90 per cent of Pyongyang's trade, making it just about North Korea's only economic lifeline