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Kim Jong Un "liked the car, and so the decision was made" to present him with the high-end Aurus Senat for his personal use.

Little is known about North Korean football, but as their women's national team makes a tilt at Olympic qualification, the eyes of the world are turning back towards them.

State media says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised test firings of new cruise missiles and reiterated his goal of building a nuclear-armed navy.

Video shows North Korean teenagers being sentenced to 12 years of hard labour for watching and distributing South Korean films and dramas.

The footage, released by an organisation which works with North Korean defectors, shows the two 16-year-olds in Pyongyang convicted of watching South Korean movies and music videos.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea, calling for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries, according to state media.

Kim Jong Un begins 2024 once again escalating North Korea's threats towards its southern neighbour as it becomes evident the nation has traded missiles with Russia for its war against Ukraine. 

The birthdates of his father and grandfather, Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, who preceded him as rulers, are national holidays in the authoritarian state, but the government has never confirmed the exact date of Kim Jong Un's birth.

From a brutal axe murder to a defector making a desperate escape for freedom in a hail of bullets, these are just a few of the violent incidents that have occurred in the DMZ.  

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired more than more than 90 rounds near the rivals' disputed western sea boundary on Sunday afternoon.

South Korean officials say residents have been evacuated from two islands near it's maritime border with North Korea.

South Korea says North Korea has conducted artillery drills along their sea boundary in violation of a 2018 military agreement.

The White House's national security spokesperson says Russia recently used short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) sourced from North Korea to conduct multiple strikes against Ukraine, citing newly declassified intelligence. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sets economic, military and foreign policy goals for the coming year, lashing out at the US and vowing to launch new spy satellites, build military drones, and boost its nuclear arsenal.

Pyongyang has long relied on its nuclear arsenal and array of weapons to leverage their international position.

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that as of 2023 the fertility rate, or the average number of children being born to a woman in North Korea, stood at 1.8.

North Korea says it will consider any interference with its satellite operations a declaration of war and mobilise its war deterrence.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrates with scientists and his family after the successful launch of a military spy satellite into orbit.

South Korea says it will suspend parts of a military agreement with the North over the move.

South Korea has suspended part of a 2018 military agreement with North Korea after it defied warnings from the United States and launched a spy satellite.

Last year, stealing cryptocurrency became North Korea's primary form of foreign currency income.

As international sanctions have cut into North Korea’s ability to import and export things, they’ve become desperate for cash. They’ve been running crazy schemes to get it - smuggling, stealing, lying, cheating, swashbuckling - but that’s nothing compared to what they make from stealing cryptocurrency. In fact, most of their foreign currency now comes from stolen crypto. So, can anything be done to stop the world’s first nuclear-armed crypto bro, Kim Jong-un? Matt Bevan takes a look.

If North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un meets an untimely end, these experts say there's one clear successor.

The US Army's case against Private Travis King includes eight distinct charges, setting up a substantial legal battle for the 23-year-old soldier following his release from North Korean custody.

North Korea says it's "expelling" rogue US soldier Travis King who crossed the demilitarised zone from the South in July.