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US President Donald Trump signed into law a new batch of sanctions on Beijing, Tehran, and Moscow. (Photo: AP)

Negotiating with N Korea 'waste of time', says US President Donald...

Trump undercut his top diplomat, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by declaring on Twitter that any talks would be...

2 Oct 2017 9:42 AM IST

We cannot allow North Korea to threaten all that we have built, Trump said on the first day of a two-day visit to South Korea. (Photo: AP File)

Donald Trump at North Korea doorstep, warns use of military force

Speaking in S Korea, Trump said he was prepared to do whatever was necessary to prevent the North Korean dictator from...

7 Nov 2017 4:18 PM IST

In this undated image distributed on Sunday by Pyongyang shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Koreas state media said Kim inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new ICBM. (Photo: AP)

US nuclear commander 'assumes' North Koreans tested H-bomb: report

The reported acknowledgement is the nearest the US has come to confirming it was an H-bomb.

15 Sept 2017 11:37 AM IST

Missile engines could have been bought from corrupt workers in Russia or Ukraine and smuggled to North Korea between collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 and Ukraines crisis.

Before and after satellite images show intensity of N Korea's 6th...

The recent nuclear test was the sixth and most powerful test North Korea has conducted since its first in 2006.

14 Sept 2017 6:45 PM IST

The United Nations Security Council in session (Photo: AP)

N Korea nuke yield estimated at 250 kilotons, 16 times more powerful...

UNSC unanimously imposed an 8th set of sanctions on the North Korea, banning it from trading in textiles and restricting...

13 Sept 2017 12:45 PM IST

In this undated image distributed on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. (Photo: AP)

North Korea says US fabricated most vicious' UN sanction, warns of...

United States dropped initial demands for a full oil embargo and a freeze on the foreign assets of North Korean leader...

12 Sept 2017 5:38 PM IST

The United Nations Security Council in session (Photo: AP)

UNSC unanimously imposes sanctions on North Korea for its 6th nuclear...

United States dropped initial demands for a full oil embargo and a freeze on the foreign assets of North Korean leader...

12 Sept 2017 4:17 PM IST

Washingtons UN ambassador Nikki Haley said North Koreas missile test is unacceptable. (Photo: PTI)

US relaxes few sanctions from N Korea resolution ahead of UN vote to...

The US had originally pushed for a strict oil embargo, as well as a freeze on the assets of North Korean leader Kim...

11 Sept 2017 3:23 PM IST

The United Nations Security Council in session (Photo: AP)

UN to vote on new N Korea sanctions on Monday as China, Russia remains...

The draft resolution also no longer proposes an asset freeze on the military-controlled national airline Air Koryo.

11 Sept 2017 11:31 AM IST

In this undated image distributed on Sunday by Pyongyang shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Koreas state media said Kim inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new ICBM. (Photo: AP)

North Korea warns of harsh response if new sanctions imposed

The test came weeks after N Korea fired 2 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that appeared to bring much of...

11 Sept 2017 10:53 AM IST

North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows fireworks displaying while Pyongyang residents and military people holding a celebration rally on the test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. (Photo: AFP)

N Korea celebrates nuclear test, says 'No-one can stop us on our road...

North Korea in July carried out its first two successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

7 Sept 2017 5:38 PM IST

Washingtons UN ambassador Nikki Haley said North Koreas missile test is unacceptable. (Photo: PTI)

US pushes oil embargo on North Korea, takes aim at Kim Jong-Un

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un would be added to a UN sanctions blacklist that would subject him to a global travel...

7 Sept 2017 12:17 PM IST