Park Chan Kyong

Samsung, the world's biggest maker of memory chips, has weathered a series of setbacks, including an embarrassing global recall of its Galaxy Note 7

​He reiterated his claims that the North was a nuclear state and insisted its expansion of the weapons programme was a defensive measure.

US and North Korea and a Russian doping ban haven’t dampened spirits or ticket sales

The arrested captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized three days ago with 476 people on board has defended his decision to delay its evacuation.

Military talks aimed at easing high tensions between North and South Korea collapsed on Wednesday.

North and South Korea on Tuesday haggled over how to ease tensions in their first talks since the North's shelling of a South Korean island last year.

North Korea proposed "unconditional and early" talks with the South on Wednesday to mend battered cross-border ties.

North Korea vowed on Thursday to attack any South Korean ships that violate their disputed border.

North Korea fired artillery shells into the sea near its tense disputed border with South Korea for a second day on Thursday.

North Korea on Wednesday offered the United States talks on its missile launch plans, indicating it might put off a flight test that has raised tension and drawn sharp international warnings. The number two diplomat at North Korea's United Nations mission said the secretive state was open to talks with Washington, where there were reports that the US missile defence shield had been activated.