The ministry said on its website that all imports of coal, iron, iron ore and seafood will be 'completely prohibited' from Tuesday.
14 Aug 2017 2:39 PM
Early this year, India suspended its trade links with North Korea, a move which was praised by the Trump administration.
12 Aug 2017 2:58 PM
Earlier on Thursday, Pyongyang said it was readying plans to launch missiles towards the Pacific territory of Guam.
11 Aug 2017 2:23 PM
The US government last month said it would bar Americans from travelling to North Korea due to the risk of 'long-term detention' there.
03 Aug 2017 8:39 AM
Tillerson said the US does not think productive talks would result if N Korea came with the intention of maintaining their nuclear weapons.
02 Aug 2017 1:03 PM
World powers have been trying to stifle Pyongyang's weapons programme through United Nations-backed sanctions.
02 Aug 2017 8:45 AM
The first of these trials, which Kim described as a gift to 'American bastards,' showed the rocket had the potential range to hit Alaska.
02 Aug 2017 8:14 AM
Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN, said China must decide if it is willing to back imposing stronger UN sanctions on North Korea.
01 Aug 2017 11:06 AM
With tempers running high in the restive Korean peninsula, negotiations seem unlikely.
26 Jul 2017 12:49 AM
Trump has been very conscious of North Korea since 2013 and has tweeted about it more than 50 times in various contexts.
17 Jul 2017 3:02 AM
Trump tweeted that Putin "vehemently denied" interfering in US election during their first face-to-face encounter at G20 Summit on Friday.
10 Jul 2017 11:16 AM
The bilateral talks came on the sidelines of the G20 summit where leaders of the world's top economies are gathered.
08 Jul 2017 9:35 AM
The result of the painstaking 15-minute process is a $8.71 cup of cold coffee.
04 Jul 2017 1:58 PM
The ‘landmark’ test of a Hwasong-14 missile was overseen by leader Kim Jong-Un and flew 930 kilometres before landing in the Sea of Japan.
04 Jul 2017 12:22 PM
North Korea shows no sign of wanting to restart talks on abandoning its nuclear weapons program.
30 Jun 2017 6:02 AM
The North had earlier Friday denied torturing or mistreating Warmbier, in the first official reaction to his death.
23 Jun 2017 3:41 PM
President Trump tweeted that he appreciated China’s efforts to help with North Korea but that their attempts ‘did not work out’.
21 Jun 2017 2:58 PM
North and South Korea remain in a technical state of war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
05 Jun 2017 11:28 AM
Pyongyang has long had missiles that can reach targets across South Korea and Japan.
22 May 2017 2:41 AM
North Korea has been blamed in recent years for a series of online attacks, mostly on financial networks, over a dozen of countries.
21 May 2017 10:08 AM