For decades North Korea has built networks of front companies and foreign intermediaries to channel currency in and out.

South Korea claimed yesterday North Korea was planning terrorist attacks on the south.

Kim Jong Il, the former leader of North Korea, planned to end the hereditary system of rule that handed power to his son Kim Jong Un.

What do we know about North Korea's leader? Very little. Which makes Kenji Fujimoto worth listening to.

Kim Jong Un turned 33 yesterday, and from the North Korean leader's perspective he had plenty to celebrate: Everyone's talking about him again.

For any rational military strategist, the risks of an armed response to North Korea's sanctions violations and pin-prick provocations are prohibitive, writes Benjamin Habib.

North Korea once again demonstrated its mastery of timing as it caught the world off-guard with its surprise nuclear test.

North Korea may have explained its announced hydrogen bomb test as a response to US "hostility", but experts say it may more accurately reflect deteriorating relations with China.

North Korea's leader has claimed a quantum leap in his country's ability to wreak nuclear devastation by announcing that his regime is "ready to detonate" a hydrogen bomb.

Recent satellite images suggest North Korea is excavating a new tunnel at its main nuclear test site, but there are no indications that a test is imminent.

Donna McIntyre is by turns saddened, unnerved, educated and fascinated on a visit to South Korea's side of the demilitarised zone.

North Korea's Vice-Premier has reportedly been executed by firing squad after voicing discontent with the forestry policies of Kim Jong Un.

A Korean grandmother is using secret recipes passed down from generation to generation in her family to share her culture in her adopted homeland.

North Korea wants your money and has released a promotional video touting for investment.

This month North Korea claimed to have launched a ballistic missile from a submerged submarine.

Children in North Korea are reportedly to be taught that Kim Jong Un learned to drive at the age of three.

North Korean dictator has ordered a new “pleasure troupe” of young women to entertain him.

North Korea is sending thousands of 'slaves' abroad to fund leader Kim Jong-un's lavish lifestyle, human rights activists claim.

Shin Dong Hyuk, the North Korean prison camp survivor who has admitted that parts of his well-known tale are inaccurate, has urged his supporters to continue.

Even by the outrageous standards of North Korean propaganda chiefs, it was an unusually vulgar slur, a dramatic escalation in the two-week-long war of words between Pyongyang and Washington.

North Korea has blasted US President Obama as a "monkey" encouraging cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader, and threatened "inescapable deadly blows".

North Korea is getting mocked again thanks to a new photo sweeping social media that shows the stoic and stern Kim Jong-un with a full face of make-up.

North Korea experienced one of its worst internet outages for several hours, days after United States President Barack Obama vowed a "proportional" response.

North Korea is suffering internet outages just days after Barack Obama's warning over the Sony hacking.

Whoa, this can't be right. Guys, guys, guys - this isn't the end. It feels like the lights have just come on in the theatre just when I was settling down to my popcorn...

US President Barack Obama has become embroiled in a dispute with the makers of the comedy The Interview over how much the White House knew about North Korea's threats against the film.