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Pyongyang's test a show of force

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

N Korea's move test of China's waning influence

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.

Cartoon: North Korean red book

North Korea's OS driven by fear

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

Kim Jong Un says he has H-bomb

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.

North Korea builds at nuke site

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.

Pyongyang earning from overseas forced labour

Korea: Shame of two halves

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 'state-sponsored' slaves

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

Defector fights on despite holes in story

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.

Activists to airdrop 'The Interview' on North Korea

Monkey slur in bitter war of words

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.

President Barack Obama called 'monkey'

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".

Kim Jong Un lampooned

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 Korean net shut down for nine hours

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

Is North Korea under cyber-attack?

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