New satellite imagery shows recent activity at a previously undeclared North Korean facility that researchers suspect is being used to build nuclear warheads. According to CNN, the images are believed to be linked to North Korea's nuclear programme.

New satellite images show activity at suspected North Korean nuclear facility

The United States has stressed the importance of resuming talks with North Korea, South Korea said on Thursday, even though North Korea has said it has no intention of returning to the negotiating table.

US sees importance of North Korea talks despite tension, South says

US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun on Wednesday refuted reports that he was seeking to meet North Korean officials during a visit to South Korea this week.

US envoy denies wanting North Korea meet, but says ready to talk

North Korea holding talks with the United States would be nothing more than "a political tool" for Washington, a senior North Korean diplomat said on Saturday, ahead of a US envoy's visit to South Korea.

Talks with US would be nothing more than 'a political tool' for Washington: North Korea

North Korea has upped its anti-South Korea rhetoric, and recently took it a step further by bombing a joint liaison office symbolic of Korean unity and peace. The country claimed that South Korea had been smuggling anti-Kim leaflets across the border, in a bid to increase rates of defectors emerging from the country.

'Dirty, disgusting' depictions of Kim Jong-un's wife in leaflets may have set off a stronger anti-South rhetoric

South Korea and the US have come together to urge North Korea to implement the disarmament pledges it made in past talks. The two countries are aiming at a complete denuclearisation from North Korea's side.

South Korea and US ask North Korea to implement pre-planned denuclearisation plans

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North Korea has suspended military action plans against South Korea, Reuters reported quoting the official KCNA news agency on Wednesday. The latest development comes amid report suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers recently reinstalled at the fortified border.

North Korea suspends military action plans against South Korea: Report

Kim Jong Un ordered the suspension of military actions against South Korea, a move that could ease tensions after North Korea blew up a liaison office built by Seoul and warned of further provocations.

Kim Jong Un suspends planned military moves against South Korea

North Korea is reinstalling loudspeakers blaring propaganda across the border in its latest step away from inter-Korean peace agreements, prompting the South's military to explore similar moves, a South Korean military source said on Tuesday.

North Korea seen reinstalling border loudspeakers; satellite pictures show liaison office standing but damaged

United States President Donald Trump likened his diplomacy with North Korean Kim Jong-un to “dating”. His ex-security adviser John Bolton’s upcoming book which has made headlines for its controversial nature apparently mentions the bizarre details.

Trump likened his relationship with North Korea's Kim to 'dating', 'wanted to be the one to break-up'

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been intensifying in recent weeks. Pyongyang said that it had prepared various methods including the use of 3,000 balloons to deliver the leaflets "deep inside South Korea." Seoul said it would respond depending on the delivery equipment used.

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Amid tensions with North, South Korea conducts military excercise

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border on June 16, the South's Unification Ministry said, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang. Watch report.

N Korea to redeploy troops along border: Blows up inter-Korean liaison office

South-Korea peninsula on the boil: North Korea blows up joint liaison office

North Korea on Wednesday vowed to redeploy troops to front-line areas to resume military exercises and reinstall guard posts as tensions with South Korea

WION Fineprint: North Korea vows to send troops to border areas

North Korea said on Wednesday it had rejected South Korea's offer to send special envoys to ease escalating bilateral tensions, and vowed to redeploy troops to demilitarised border units in the latest step towards nullifying inter-Korean peace accords.

North Korea rejects South's offer of envoys, vows to redeploy troops to border

Tensions in the Korean peninsula are escalating. North Korea has blown up the inter-Korea liaison office.

Gravitas: North Korea demolishes Inter-Korea Liaison Office

North Korea has warned that it is “fully ready” to send troops into the demilitarised zone [DMZ] separating it from South Korea if defector groups push ahead with their campaign to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets into North Korea, state media said on Tuesday.

North Korea ' fully ready' to send troops into demilitarised zone as propaganda leaflets row escalates

North Korea has demolished the inter-Korean liaison office located in the Gaesong industrial complex in the North

North Korea demolishes Inter-Korean Liaison office

After North Korea destroyed a joint liaison office symbolic of peace in the peninsula, South Korean authorities were quick to issue a statement. On Tuesday, the South Korean representatives said that that they will respond “sternly” if the neighbouring country, under the leadership of Kim Jong-un continues to issue threats and pursue excesses.

'North completely responsible for consequences', echoes South Korea after liaison office bombing

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in urged North Korea on Monday to refrain from raising tension and return to dialogue, after threats trumpeted by state media in Pyongyang to cut ties and take military action.

South Korea's Moon urges North to keep peace deals, return to talks

The sister of North Korea's leader has warned of retaliatory measures against the South that could involve the military, in the latest escalation of tensions over defectors from the North who have been sending back propaganda.

North Korea again warns of retaliatory actions over defectors in South

South Korea was a success story until the second wave of coronavirus infections hit it. But a series of new clusters in the area around Seoul, the capital, with 56 new cases on Thursday took the national tally to 12,003 and 277 deaths.

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