North Korea has vowed to wipe out the US and South Korea.

China has launched its first aircraft carrier built entirely on its own.

Trump's aim is to pressure Pyongyang to dismantle its missile programmes.

North Korea has released alarming photographs of its artillery drill this week.

This country will have just 10 minutes to prepare should North Korea launch a nuke.

There are only two countries where Coke doesn't officially operate and North Korea is one.

China's push to use its trading clout to hurt North Korea is starting to be felt.

COMMENT: Trump can try stronger sanctions and negotiation with North Korea.

COMMENT: We should keep our heads down and not prod and poke the "rogue state".

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all sides to exercise restraint.

Does NZ have anything to fear from North Korea's nuclear ambitions and threats of war?

"Our revolutionary forces are ready to sink a US carrier," the Rodong Sinmun said.

North Korea has detained a US citizen, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

North Korea's threat of a nuclear strike on Australia is of "enormous concern".

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee won't say whether NZ will back intervention in Nth Korea.

North Korea has issued a warning to our Tasman neighbours over their pro-US stance.

Aerial pictures show North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's own "Ibiza" island.

In 2015 he predicted Trump will be President, could he be right about this?

Trump said he'd sent an aircraft carrier to North Korea. The problem? It never happened.

North Korea's latest launch may have failed but its parade told a different story.

Vice-President tells Pyongyang that Trump has shown he is ready to take 'decisive action'.

From the outside North Korea looks like an impoverished state cut off from the world.

Turnbull said the North Korean regime is a threat to peace and stability in Australia.

Britain has sent more than £4 million in foreign aid to North Korea over six years.

North Korea has threatened the US, insisting nuclear war "may break out at any moment".

North Korean leader unveils elite grenade launcher-wielding troops trained to defend him.

NZ-US areas of co-operation include climate change, fisheries and humanitarian aid.

Interest in the term has spiked after recent world events.

COMMENT: Does it seem like we're close to pushing the World War III button?

North Korea to launch weekly missile tests in response to Mike Pence's dramatic statement.