Donald Trump slammed North Korea's 'cruel dictatorship' and the severe political oppression inflicted on its people in a speech to Seoul's parliament on Wednesday

North Korea a 'cruel dictatorship' says Trump in Seoul

North Korea was set up with backing from the Soviet Union as a socialist state. The Soviet collapse in 1991 crippled the North Korean economy and brought down its centralised food distribution system. Those who survived were forced to forage, barter and invent meals from whatever they found

Fake meat, free markets ease North Koreans' hunger

Trump and the North's leader Kim Jong-Un have traded threats of war and personal insults against each other in recent months, heightening worries about a potential conflict on the divided Korean peninsula.

North Korea slams 'incurably mentally deranged' Trump

The report mention of a large number of deaths due to lack of medicine, inadequate diet, and brutal labour

Brutal torture in network of prisons in North Korea: Report

The moves staged in violation of UN resolutions banning the North from any use of atomic and ballistic technology, prompted new US-led UN sanctions against the impoverished state. Pyongyang reacted angrily to the new sanctions

Mattis says US goal is 'not war' over North Korea, bans use of atomic and ballistic technology

"As the US Secretary of State Tillerson made clear, our goal is not war but rather the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," Mattis said in the truce village of Panmunjom.

Our goal is not war but denuclearisation of Korean peninsula: Jim Mattis

Clinton also called on China to take a "more out front role" in enforcing sanctions against North Korea aimed at curbing its missile and nuclear development

Hillary Clinton says US threats of war with N.Korea 'dangerous, short-sighted'

Tensions over North Korea's weapons programme have soared in recent months, with Pyongyang launching a flurry of missiles and conducting its sixth and most powerful nuclear test last month

UAE stops issuing visas to North Koreans

China is making progress in enforcing sanctions imposed on North Korea, a US State Department official said on Thursday, and urged skeptical members of Congress not to rush to enact new ones before giving Beijing's efforts a chance to take effect

China support for North Korea clampdown growing: US official

Tensions between North Korea and the United States and its allies soared last month after Pyongyang tested two long-range missiles that appeared to bring US cities within its range

Talks with North Korea may be close, says Tillerson

Beijing has pleaded for a resumption of long-dormant six-nation talks to peacefully resolve the nuclear crisis

US-South Korea military drills not conducive towards easing tensions: China

Television footage showed military vehicles carrying launchers and other equipment for the surface-to-air system entering a Japanese base in Kochi before dawn

Japan deploys missile defence after North Korea threat to Guam: Reports

Pyongyang's threats to launch four missile strikes near the US territory has stirred global curiosity in the remote Pacific destination, with it trending heavily on search engines as social media users wondered, 'what is Guam?'

Guam tourism sees silver lining in North Korean threats

The escalating dispute between?Washington and Pyongyang?took an unexpected turn on Tuesday when Trump seemed to borrow from the North's arsenal of rhetoric and said it faced 'fire and fury like the world has never seen' if it continued to threaten the US

Will back US in any North Korea conflict: Australia

Asian shares and US stock futures slipped after Pyongyang said it is considering plans to attack Guam, just hours after US President Donald Trump told North Korea that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury."

Sensex dips over Korea tension

The country's official newspaper also encouraged South Korea not to follow the US president, saying 'it would only lead to disaster'

North Korea calls President Trump a 'psychopath...dealing with political crisis back home'

North Korea on Sunday tested what appeared to be its longest-range ballistic missile yet

UN Security Council vows sanctions over North Korea missile test

The former human rights lawyer backs engagement with North Korea

Moon Jae-In sworn in as new South Korea President, says willing to go to North

The USS Carl Vinson is somewhere off the Korean peninsula

North Korea says ready to strike US aircraft carrier

'Well if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you,' he told the Financial Times newspaper

Trump says US will eliminate nuclear threat from North Korea alone

Contrary to the Obama administration's policy, James Clapper said that at best the US could hope for a cap on Pyongyang's nuclear capability

Getting North Korea to denuclearise 'probably a lost cause': US Intelligence chief

The failed attempt by North Korea to launch the missile was detected from the northwestern city of Kusong

Pyongyang ?conducted failed missile launch, say South Korean and US military monitors?

Seoul warned that Pyongyang is prepared for an additional nuke test, just days after it set off its most powerful blast to date

North Korea ready for another nuclear test: South Korea

The missile launched early Tuesday from the western city of Hwangju, flew between 500 and 600 kilometres towards the Sea of Japan

North Korea test-fires three ballistic missiles into sea

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