North Korea said an Australian student who it detained for a week spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda and engaged in spying by providing photos and other materials...
North Korea-focused news outlet NK News earlier reported Sigley was in China and en route to Japan. The reason for his detention remains unclear....
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The son of an anglo-Australian man and Chinese mother, Sigley previously studied at Fudan University in Shanghai and in South Korea before moving to Pyongyang, where he is one of a handful of Western students at Kim Il-sung University....
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Cheollima Civil Defense, a self-styled human rights group, reportedly fled with computers, a phone and hard discs. The break-in occurred just days before a key ...
ROME (Reuters) - Italy warned on Wednesday there would be consequences to pay if there was any truth to reports that the daughter of a missing North Korean dipl...
North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes remain intact and Pyongyang is using airports and other facilities to shield its weapons from possible US military strikes, according to a UN panel of experts....
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A U.S. District Court has ruled that North Korea must pay $501 million to the family of Otto Warmbier, a student who was detained during a 2016 trip to the recl...
Some users of communication service Slack have reported their accounts have been closed over visits to countries under US sanctions. The move, which Slack says ...
Greta Warmbier climbed the stairs onto the plane in summer 2017 ecstatic, thinking it was the happiest moment of her life: Her beloved brother Otto had come home, back in Ohio, freed from nearly 18 months of imprisonment in North Korea....
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North Korea says it is expelling American Bruce Byron Lowrance after he slipped unlawfully into the police state known for its anti-U.S. fervor....
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Benoit Quennedey, a civil servant who works for the Senate and is also the president of the Franco-Korean Friendship Association, was taken into custody on Sund...
North Korea said Friday that it will deport an American citizen it detained one month ago for illegally entering the country. The announcement suggests that North Korea still intends to improve ties with the United States despite stalled nuclear dipl...
Sexual abuse against women in North Korea is so "common" it has become part of ordinary life, a report has claimed. Human Rights Watch based the report on inter...
Declarations filed in support of a lawsuit filed by the parents of Otto F. Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who died after returning to the U.S. fro...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has barred American aid workers from going to North Korea as it pressures Pyongyang to dismantle the country’s nuclear weapons program, according to humanitarian groups and a former United States ambassador......
GENEVA (Reuters) - Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with nearly the same number missing and thousands left homeless by the destructi...
Washington (CNN)The US State Department is extending the ban on US citizens traveling to North Korea for another year, according to a State Department official....
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A new ransomware campaign targeting large organisations in the US and around the world has made the attackers behind it over $640,000 in bitcoin in the space of...
Japan and South Korea are bracing for two typhoons which are expected later this week. The two storms, the 20th and 21st named storms of the West Pacific Typho...
North Korea is planning a party. Next month, the reclusive country will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the country, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. And there are signs that the event, which will take ...
North Korea has stopped processing tourist visas for foreigners ahead of a high-profile anniversary next month, according to a China-based tour operator....
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