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People watch a TV showing a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea (AP)

North Korea fires short-range projectiles

The launches is said to be a violation of an inter-Korean agreement aimed at lowering military animosities

9 March 2020 12:35 PM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Korean Central News Agency)

North Korea praises China for getting the pandemic under control

China is North Korea's most significant ally and economic lifeline, accounting for about 90% of the country's external...

8 May 2020 9:28 AM IST

A security guard checks the temperature of a shopper before allowing entry into a shopping mall. (AFP)

As lockdown curbs ease, South Korea throws open malls

The term bobok sobi - revenge shopping - trends on the nation's social media as people rush to make purchases delayed...

4 May 2020 11:53 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre) visiting the completed Suchon phosphate fertilizer factory in South Pyongan Province, North Korea on May 1st. (Released from North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency)

Kim Jong Un reappears in public after weeks of health rumours

The leader's recent absence from public events had triggered a series of fevered rumours and unconfirmed reports over...

2 May 2020 9:42 AM IST

North Korean government shows North Koreans prepare anti-South Korea propaganda leaflets in North Korea. South Korea on Monday, June 22, 2020 urged North Korea to scrap a plan to launch propaganda leaflets across the border. (Korea News Service via AP, File)

South Korea urges North not to send leaflets amid high tensions

Earlier Monday, North Korea said it had manufactured 12 million propaganda leaflets to be floated toward South Korea

22 Jun 2020 2:39 PM IST

Smoke rises in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, seen from Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. South Korea says that North Korea has exploded an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border. (AP Photo)

North Korea blows up liaison office shared with South Korea

Since early June, North Korea issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of South over activists sending anti-Pyongyang...

16 Jun 2020 2:55 PM IST

Visitors hang a ribbon on a wire fence decorated with other ribbons at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. North Korea said Tuesday it will cut off all communication channels with South Korea as it escalates its pressure on the South for failing to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across their tense border. (AP Photo)

North Korea cut off communication with South over anti-Pyongyang...

South Korean government said it would push for legal bans on launching leaflets, but the North said South Korean...

9 Jun 2020 12:56 PM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Monday, July 20, 2020. The rocket is carrying ANASIS II, a national security satellite for South Korea. (AP)

South Korea's first-ever military satellite launched

The ANASIS-II is intended to enhance the South's ability to defend itself against the nuclear-armed North Korea, which...

21 July 2020 12:41 PM IST

North Korea on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, repeated it has no immediate intent to resume dialogue with the United States hours before U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun was to arrive in South Korea for discussions on the stalled nuclear diplomacy. (AP Photo)

North Korea rejects talks ahead of US envoy's arrival in Seoul

North Korea ridiculed South's nonsensical calls for revived negotiations between US and Pyongyang when it lost its...

7 July 2020 3:32 PM IST

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, June 2, 2020. (AP)

Kim signals North Korea to keep borders closed against virus

Pyongyang insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19, while the disease has swept the world infecting more than...

3 July 2020 9:15 AM IST

This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test launch of a hypersonic missile in North Korea Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP)

N Korea says hypersonic missile tested to modernise weaponry

Wednesday's test indicates that the country will press ahead with plans to build powerful, sophisticated missiles

6 Jan 2022 11:02 AM IST

People watch the screening of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, in Thiruvananthapuram. (PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Allegations in a democracy: It's best to debate, not...

In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn't be subject to a total niqab being drawn over...

28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST