When all universities in North Korea were shut down for an entire year in 2011, the students were sent to construction fields except for 270 students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Thrice a day, the students had to sing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea

Suki Kim: The novelist who went undercover in North Korea

North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a confidential report by independent UN monitors, which also accused Pyongyang of supplying weapons to Syria and Myanmar

North Korea earned $200 million from banned exports, sends arms to Syria, Myanmar: UN report

Tillerson said that while North Korea had a record of seeking to drive a wedge between the United States and its allies through "charm offensives", Washington was supportive of the North-South dialogue.

Tillerson: Evidence sanctions 'really starting to hurt' North Korea

Kim Jong-un used his annual New Year address to warn he has a 'nuclear button' on his table

North Korea calls Trump nuclear button boast the 'bark of a rabid dog'

The talks were held on Tuesday on the South Korean side of the demilitarised zone, which has divided the two Koreas since 1953

South Korea's Moon says Trump deserves 'big' credit for North Korea talks

Going by its play-book, NK extended the olive branch, to ease the mounting pressure, buy time, extract some freebies from ROK and try to drive a wedge between Seoul and Washington.

Opinion: North Korea is fooling all with promises of peace talks

North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South after their first formal talks in more than two years

North Korea to attend Olympics in rival South

The US State Department said Washington would be interested in joining future talks, but stuck to its insistence that they must be aimed at denuclearisation

US hails Korea talks, despite North's rejection of denuclearisation

For South Korean civil society, who can remember crossing borders, building relationships, and re-humanising each other, peacebuilding is still regarded as the best way to neutralise the nuclear ambitions of the North Korean leadership and improve the human rights conditions of the North Koreans.

Opinion: Are two Koreas serious in defrosting the relationship?

A day after US President Donald Trump said he is open to talks with the North Korean leader, his top Indian-American diplomat to the US said that Pyongyang needs to take steps to make that happen

North Korea needs to take series of steps to mend ties with US: Haley

Defections across the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone that divides the Korean peninsula are very rare, but this year there have been four.

North Korean defector numbers slump as controls tighten

South Korea Tuesday proposed high-level talks with Pyongyang on January 9, after the North's leader Kim Jong-Un called for better relations and said his country might attend the Winter Olympics in the South

South Korea proposes high-level talks with North Korea on January 9

The ban of the four vessels -- the Ul Ji Bong 6, Rung Ra 2, Sam Jong 2 and Rye Song Gang 1 -- brings the UN's total number of blocked ships to eight

UN bars four North Korean ships from international ports

Tillerson said some 90 percent of Pyongyang's export earnings had been cut off by a series of international sanctions after the Trump administration 'abandoned the failed policy of strategic patience'

Tillerson defends foreign policy record at year's end

Pyongyang is under multiple UN sanctions over its nuclear and missile tests and is prohibited from carrying out any launch using ballistic missile technology including satellites

North Korea preparing to launch satellite: Report

'Loyal agent of North Korea' was arrested by authorities, believing he was acting to serve some higher patriotic purpose

North Korean's arrest: Australia police accidentally broadcast arrest plans on social media

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that analysis continued on North Korea`s most recent missile test, but he did not believe its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) posed an imminent threat to the United States

Mattis says North Korean ICBM not yet a 'capable threat' against US

South Korean President Moon Jae-In will visit China next week for talks on North Korea and other issues, his office said Wednesday, amid tentative signs of diplomatic movement after months of high tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile threats

South Korea's Moon to visit China for talks on North Korea

North Korea's Kim?Jong?Un has completed a six-year transition to what the South calls a reign of terror

The thinking behind Kim Jong Un's 'madness'

'Experts think North Korea will take two to three more years, but they are developing their nuclear capabilities faster than expected,' said Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon

North Korea may announce completion of nuclear programme within a year: South Korea minister

The Chinese companies were hit by punitive measures along with North Korean shipping interests after US President Donald Trump put Pyongyang back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism

China slams 'wrong' US sanctions on North Korea-tied Chinese firms

Washington-based 38 North, a North Korea monitoring project, cited images taken on November 5th showing activity at North Korea?s Sinpo South Shipyard

Satellite images indicate 'aggressive schedule' by North Korea on missile submarine: US Institute

'The future of this region and its beautiful people must not be held hostage to a dictator's twisted fantasies of violent conquest and nuclear blackmail,' he said

Trump says Asia held hostage by North Korea's 'twisted fantasies'

US President Donald?Trump?toured the Forbidden City with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday as he began the crucial leg of an Asian tour intended to build a global front against North Korea's nuclear threats.

Watch: Trump arrives in China amid North Korea tensions

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