North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ordered citizens to hand over their pet dogs so they can be killed and eaten as a new famine threatens the country. Heavy rain, widespread flooding and crop damages have left the country short of food supplies, leading the Stalinist regime to demand more wealthy North Koreans give up their dogs, which are considered “decadent” luxury and “a ‘tainted’... 

North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday. Kim Hyok Chol was executed in March at Mirim Airport in Pyongyang, along with four foreign ministry executives after they were all charged with spying for the United... 

U.S. President Donald Trump has cancelled next month’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He has just missed a unique occasion that happens only once in 50-100 years. Trump might just be the world’s dumbest president ever. He missed a change to denuclearize North Korea and make it give up willingly. Kim Jong Un was willing to give up his nukes, open the world and so on but Trump’s... 

North Korea will openly dismantle its nuclear test site around May 23-25, state media said. Pyongyang has invited foreign journalists, including those from the US, to cover the event. The dismantling will involve collapsing all tunnels with explosions and blocking their entrances. All observation facilities, research buildings, and security posts will be removed, KCNA reported. Notably, journalists... 

Some of South Korea’s biggest pop stars have performed in North Korea in the latest sign of thawing tensions between the two countries. On Sunday, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un attended the performance in Pyongyang with his wife Ri Sol-ju, sister Kim Yo-jong and other senior officials, including nominal head of state Kim Yong-nam. After the concert, which lasted for more than two hours, Kim... 

U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to meet Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), by May at the invitation of Kim, a visiting South Korean envoy said here on Thursday. Kim has said the DPRK “will refrain from any further nuclear or missile test,” Chung Eui-yong, South Korea’s top national security adviser, told reporters at the White... 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang in a personal letter delivered by Kim’s sister, Seoul has said. Kim’s younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, handed the letter over at a rare meeting with Moon on Saturday. She said that brother asked Moon to visit the North’s capital at the “earliest date” possible for what will be a third inter-Korean summit. “While... 

Donald Trump has accused China of exporting oil to North Korea, in contravention of UN sanctions, after a media report alleged transactions between the two countries. Beijing has denied making illegal shipments. “Caught RED HANDED – very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea. There will never be a friendly solution to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!”... 

Amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the People’s Liberation Army of China has conducted military exercises near the Korean border, raising concerns of potential conflict between the United States and North Korea. The fear of war has intensified in recent months, fueled by North Korea’s illegal missile tests and threats to target the US territory of Guam with a nuclear missile.... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned against a potential attack on North Korea by the United States, describing it as “catastrophic.” Putin warned President Donald Trump that locating all necessary targets for a pre-emptive strike would be challenging. Amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Putin urged both Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to “calm down”... 

This is why North Korea’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is so important. North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe is out of their reach. In fact, General Mattis is now admitting that “North Korea can basically threaten everywhere in the world”, and that includes the entire continental United States.... 

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) early Wednesday morning, the Pentagon has said. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JOC), the launch came from the South Pyongan province at 3:17 a.m. Both South Korean and U.S. authorities are currently analyzing the trajectory, the JOC added. The Pentagon stated that the missile came from a mobile launcher. The Pentagon’s... 

North Korea has sent a letter filled with Trump-bashing to the Australian Parliament, urging MPs to condemn Washington’s saber-rattling, while at the same time assuring them of its “highest consideration.” The letter was penned by North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Committee and sent to Australia’s Indonesian embassy late September, but was received by Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop... 

Egyptian port authorities seized a North Korean ship stuffed with rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) that was part of an illegal weapons smuggling scheme in August 2016, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The incident is the apparent root of tensions between Egypt and the US, allies who have been at odds in recent months for ambiguous reasons. The North Korean ship, Jie Shun, was travelling through... 

The Chinese authorities announced the closure of all North Korean companies on the territory of China against the backdrop of UN sanctions against Pyongyang due to continuing nuclear tests in the DPRK, a message posted on the official website of the Ministry of Commerce of China said. Officials with the Chinese department said that all legal entities from North Korea, including joint ventures with...