The ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un who was thought to have been executed by firing squad last year has appeared back on state television.

Rare pictures of Kim Jong-un as a boy have been shown during a televised concert for the air force in North Korea.

A North Korean official has been executed with a flame-thrower, South Korean media has reported.

Aviation safety authorities have been urged to clamp down on Australia's burgeoning unmanned aerial vehicle market.

A group of 82 elderly, frail South Koreans have left for the North Korean border to attend the first reunion in more than three years for families divided by the Korean War.

There are two apologies to make this week. We are really, really sorry about Dennis Rodman.

Retired US basketball star Dennis Rodman has apologised for comments he made about an imprisoned US missionary in North Korea during a television interview.

Kim Jong-Un was 'very drunk' when he ordered the execution of a pair of aides close to his executed uncle.

Kim Jong-un’s nephew is reportedly under police protection on a French university campus, amid concerns for the North Korean regime’s stability.

He executed his uncle and one-time girlfriend - but could Kim Jong Un, North Korea's new dictator - have purged even his own wife?

Purges in Communist states have rarely stopped with the execution of one senior party member.

Kim Jon Un's aunty has been appointed to a post in the North Korean Government just days after her husband was executed by firing squad.

North Korea has announced the execution of Kim Jong Un's uncle, calling the leader's former mentor "despicable human scum" and "a traitor for all ages".

S Korean president Park Geun Hye said this week she is willing to hold a summit with N Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but she rejects any meeting with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe until Japan apologises for wrongdoings during its 35-year occupation of Korea.

The secretary-general of North Korea's ski association views the sprawling alpine landscape before him with unabashed pride.

She was first identified as Kim Jong-un's old flame 13 months ago, in July 2012. The poised, coiffed and elegantly dressed companion of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was filmed sitting next to him at a concert in Pyongyang.

A former police officer is vying to become the first person since the Korean War to walk a mountain range the length of the Korean Peninsula.

Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang's main square in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant intended to strike fear into North Korea's adversaries and rally its people behind young ruler Kim Jong Un on the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.

New Zealand Korean War veterans were serenaded with Po Kare Ana sung by a children's choir during South Korea's official commemoration of the 1953 armistice in Seoul this morning.

As a journalist, Chris Pritchard found he had to use subterfuge to travel to North Korea.

In the 4km wide demilitarised zone which separates North and South Korea, absurdities abound that would be laughable if not for the fact they reflect the deadly reality of war that is on hold rather than over.

The Korean War and the mates lost to it remain painful memories for many of the New Zealand veterans who yesterday visited the demilitarised zone which still separates North and South Korea 60 years later.

While the focus will be on free trade, New Zealand's defence commitments to South Korea are also likely to be on the table when Prime Minister John Key meets South Korean President Park Guen-hye today.