The United States imposes new North Korea-related sanctions, targeting Chinese and Russian firms and individuals for supporting Pyongyang's weapons programs, but stops short of an anticipated focus on Chinese banks.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un says he would hold off on a planned missile strike near Guam, but warned the highly provocative move would go ahead in the event of further "reckless actions" by Washington.

North Korean ambassadors to China, the United Nations and Russia are among key envoys who have returned home for a joint meeting, reports South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

North Korea said on Saturday that nearly 3.5 million workers, party members and soldiers volunteered to join or rejoin its army to resist new UN sanctions and to fight against the United States in the current geopolitical tension between Pyongyang and Washington.

Recent satellite photos suggest North Korea could be preparing for fresh submarine-based ballistic missile tests, an expert on its military says.

US President Donald Trump says a military option against North Korea was "locked and loaded," his latest salvo in an escalating war of words with Pyongyang's nuclear-armed regime.

The crisis over North Korea's nuclear program deepens when US President Donald Trump underscores his threat to rain "fire and fury" on Kim Jong-Un's regime by saying his apocalyptic warning perhaps "wasn't tough enough."

China should remain neutral if North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States, a Chinese state-run newspaper says, sounding a warning for Pyongyang over its plans to fire missiles near the US Pacific territory of Guam.

A former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement to Hitler couldn't stop the Second World War from happening. This infamous reference point is raked up by the free rein the North Korea's predictably unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un has had, according to some analysts. Whether this is a bad or good analogy only time will reveal; and we needn't wait too long to find that out.

North Korea announces a detailed plan to launch a volley of ballistic missiles toward the US Pacific territory of Guam, a major military hub and home to US bombers, and dismisses President Donald Trump’s threats of “fire and fury” if it doesn’t back down.

North Korea says it is considering plans for a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump tells the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury".

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to build pressure on North Korea after securing a new round of United Nations sanctions as he launched into two days of high-level diplomacy Sunday.

The US is willing to sit down for talks with North Korea, but only if it relinquishes its pursuit of nuclear weapons, says US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

North Korea is behind an increasingly orchestrated effort at hacking into computers of financial institutions in South Korea and around the world to steal cash for the impoverished country, a South Korean state-backed agency says in a report.

Two tourist agencies that operate tours to North Korea say the US government will soon ban its citizens from traveling to the North.

New images of North Korea's main nuclear facility show that the isolated regime has apparently produced more plutonium for its weapons programme than previously thought, a US monitor said, as tensions soar over Pyongyang's ambitions.

Bangladesh expresses deep concern at the recent launching of a ballistic missile by North Korea.

North Korea launched a ballistic missile Tuesday as the US prepared to mark its Independence Day, triggering a Twitter outburst from President Donald Trump who urged China to "end this nonsense once and for all".

North Korea compares US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in its latest diatribe, amid high tensions over Pyongyang's military ambitions and ahead of a visit to Washington by South Korea's new leader.

North Korea calls US President Donald Trump a "psychopath" as tensions soar following the death of American student Otto Warmbier, who was evacuated in a coma from North Korean detention last week.