North Korea has reopened a hotline to South Korea, almost two years after it was disabled on the orders of leader Kim Jong-un. South Korea confirmed it had received a call from the North at 15:30 local time (06:30 GMT) on Wednesday. The North Korean leader had earlier said he was open to dialogue with Seoul and to sending a team to the Winter Olympics in the South next month.

Meet Dragon Kim, the leading impersonator of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and find out how people react to him in different countries.

North Korea has released pictures and videos of its controversial launch of a new missile which it claims can hit anywhere in the mainland United States. The images feature North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and several high-ranking military officials celebrating as the Hwasong-15 takes off. This is what we have learnt. Many observers have been struck by the missile's vast size - this undated picture

North Korea missile 'higher' than previous tests, says US Defence Secretary Mattis North Korea has fired its highest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile and poses a worldwide threat, US Secretary of Defence James Mattis has said.

A rare instance of a defector fleeing through the demilitarised zone was captured on CCTV in 2017 Extraordinary footage of the recent defection of a North Korean soldier across the border to the South has been released. On 13 November the soldier drove up to the border within the Joint Security Area (JSA) and then sprinted to the other side, a hail of bullets following him. The JSA is the only pla

SEOUL, South Korea — I cannot turn my thoughts from the news article I happened to see a few days ago. A man in his 70s accidentally dropped two thick wads of cash in the street. Two people who happened upon this bundle of money and shared it between them were caught by the police, made to give up the money and charged with theft. Up until here, it is still an ordinary story. But there was a speci

We find out what life is like for South Koreans in a town along the Korean Demilitarised Zone. With tensions ramping up over North Korea's recent missile tests, those living on the border feel under threat every day.

第1回李浩哲統一路文学賞受賞者の金石範氏 「朝鮮を卑下した川端康成に怒り」 18日の懇談会で「朝鮮籍」に関する考えなど述べ 「日本のノーベル文学賞受賞作家の川端康成がどこかで『朝鮮をテーマにした文学は普遍性がない』と言ったことがあります。その言葉が、若い私には骨身にしみて迫ってきました。日本文学は上位文学で在日朝鮮人文学は下位文学という、帝国主義的な発言でした。私の一生は、想像力を武器にして、日本語で朝鮮を書くことができるということを証明してきた過程でした」 済州4・3抗争を描いた大河小説『火山島』で第1回李浩哲統一路文学賞を受賞した在日同胞の作家・金石範氏(＜キム・ソクポム＞93・写真)は、このように語った。18日昼、ソウル恩平区(ウンピョング)のある飲食店で記者団と会った彼は、『火山島』の執筆過程と「朝鮮籍」にこだわる理由、ろうそく革命後の韓国社会と南北関係などについて、率直かつ情熱的

What's different now: a U.S. president ready and willing to make his own destructive promises Released crewmen of the USS Pueblo are escorted by MPs upon their arrival at the U.S. Army 121st Evacuation Hospital at Ascom City, near Seoul, on December 23, 1968.  (AP) When Ri Yong Ho, the foreign minister of North Korea, called U.S. President Donald Trump’s fiery speech at the United Nations a “decla

On Friday the English-speaking world was startled to find itself suddenly reacquainted with the 14th-Century term "dotard", thanks to an unlikely source - Kim Jong-un. The North Korean leader used the ancient word to describe Donald Trump several times in a fiery statement denouncing the US President's recent UN speech.

North Korean state media released this picture of Mr Kim delivering his statement Pyongyang's foreign minister has said the North is considering a nuclear test around the Pacific, after a personal statement from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to US President Donald Trump. Analyst Ankit Panda decodes this unprecedented statement - and what the Pacific threat could actually mean.

A visual explainer on North Korea and the recent increase in tensions regarding its nuclear and missile programmes. Tensions have risen dramatically in the Korean Peninsula after North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile last month. Since the 1960s, North Korea has been trying to develop nuclear capabilities, much to the dismay of South Korea, a close ally of the United States. Keep

北朝鮮が弾道ミサイルを発射している。今後も続く可能性があるので、コース選定の背景と、各飛翔コースの簡単な解析を行った。 1. 北朝鮮の弾道ミサイル着弾記録 2. コース選定の考察 3. 日本への配慮コース 4. 2017年8月29日午前6時 5. Ｊアラート発令範囲の詳細 6. もし着弾コースだったら？ 7. Ｊアラートの“誤報”が免れない理由 8. 実戦を想定した避難猶予時間 9. 核の実弾威嚇射撃の可能性 10. 発令時に日本着弾判定が困難な理由（技術編） 11. 2017年9月15日午前7時 12. 2022年10月4日午前7時 13. 2022年11月3日午前7時 14. 2022年11月18日午前10時 また、北朝鮮が弾道ミサイルを威嚇あるいはテストとして撃てそうな範囲を上図に黄色で示した。 その条件は次の通り。 １）米国、ロシア、中国の本土上空を通過させない。 ２）米国領島嶼の

A passer-by in Tokyo looks at a TV screen reporting news about North Korea's missile launch North Korea has fired a ballistic missile across Japan, creating new tension in the region after its nuclear bomb test less than two weeks ago. The missile reached an altitude of about 770km (478 miles), travelling 3,700km before landing in the sea off Hokkaido, South Korea's military says.