South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myong-gyon offers high-ranking government talks with North Korea next week at the border village of Panmunjom, a day after Pyongyang suggested talks despite sticking to its nuclear ambitions.

The latest round of United Nations sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against the country, North Korea's foreign ministry says in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

South Korean guards fire up to 20 warning shots at North Korean troops searching for a soldier who had defected, Yonhap news agency says, after officials in the South confirms the latest defection across the heavily militarised border.

A South Korea born Sydney man have been charged with acting as an economic agent for North Korea in Australia by allegedly attempting to broker sales worth tens of millions of dollars for Pyongyang that included components used in ballistic missiles.

America’s top diplomat steppes back from his offer of unconditional talks with North Korea, telling world powers the nuclear-armed nation must earn the right to negotiate with the United States.

US President Trump speaks by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the two leaders “discussed working together to resolve the very dangerous situation in North Korea,” the White House said in a statement.

South Korea adds several North Korean groups and individuals to its sanctions list in a largely symbolic move that is part of efforts to cut off funding for the North’s weapons programs.

North Korea says a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out at a massive joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea involving hundreds of advanced warplanes.

Cuba's foreign minister and his North Korean counterpart rejects the United States' "unilateral and arbitrary" demands on Wednesday while expressing concern about escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, the ministry said.

North Korea's state media slams Donald Trump for insulting leader Kim Jong-Un, saying the US president deserve the death penalty and calling him a coward for cancelling a visit to the inter-Korean border.

US President Donald Trump says in a tweet that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had insulted him by calling him "old" and said he would never call Kim "short and fat."

North Korea says that US President Donald Trump's first trip to Asia shows he is a "destroyer" and he begs for war on the Korean peninsula.

North Korean officials closely watched US President Donald Trump when he addressed the South Korean National Assembly Wednesday, but they say they weren't listening, CNN reports.

A US media outlet reports that North Korea's chances of conducting nuclear tests for mass production of biological weapons are likely.

North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador has warned that the situation on the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says that President Donald Trump has instructed him to continue diplomatic efforts to calm rising tensions with North Korea, saying "those diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb drops."

The US has flown two supersonic heavy bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force against Pyongyang, staging the first night-time joint aviation exercises with Japan and South Korea.

North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile which it believes can reach the west coast of the United States, RIA news agency cited a Russian lawmaker as saying.

Twenty years after the Asian financial crisis, South Korea seems to have learned its lesson, having taken great pains to strengthen its economic resilience.

Owing to current affairs, I feel compelled to opine on the issue of North Korea's testing of nuclear bombs, or hydrogen bombs. Since I am unconcerned with which category of weapons North Korea tested, let us operate under the assumption that it was the earlier.