Kim Jong Un has announced North Korea's first "five-year plan" since the 1980s.

North Korea sees foreign prisoners as a valuable tool to exert pressure on its enemies - and none are more valuable than Americans.

North Korea is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea.

Pyongyang may be one of the few major cities left on Earth where you can't find a Starbucks.

North Korea detonates a sea-launched nuclear missile over Washington DC in a fantasy video released by the Ministry of Propaganda.

OPINION: It's been 37 years since the movie Midnight Express painted a grim picture for travellers pondering the thrill of breaking local laws.

WATCH: This is the moment a US student on holiday to North Korea stole a poster that resulted in a sentence of 15 years' hard labour.

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

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.

According German researchers N Korea's computer operating system has a go-it-alone approach, high degree of paranoia and invasive snooping on users.

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.

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.

Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, refused an invitation to visit Moscow to mark the Soviet Union's victory in World War II because Russia refused to meet Pyongyang's demands for special treatment for the young dictator.

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.