North Korea – a beginner’s guide
North Korea is prone to extreme rhetoric, so should current threats be a matter for concern, and how did we get to this current impasse anyway?
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John Sparks speaks with North Korean defectors and activists to get an understanding of the secretive regime and how technology is helping the outside world to seep across the border.
US Secretary of State John Kerry raises the stakes in the war of words with North Korea, warning Pyongyang that it knew “what the outcome of the conflict would be” if America had to defend its allies.
The US postpones plans to carry out a missile test in California next week over fears it will increase tensions with North Korea, as Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for calm over the crisis.
The Foreign Office confirms it is “consulting international partners” after North Korea informed foreign embassies in Pyongyang it could not guarantee the safety of staff in the event of conflict.
North Korea is prone to extreme rhetoric, so should current threats be a matter for concern, and how did we get to this current impasse anyway?
As the United States prepares to send a missile defence system to Guam to defend it from North Korea, David Cameron warns it would be “foolish” to abandon Britain’s nuclear deterrent Trident.
Talk of all-consuming hell-fire and nuclear war sounds grim. But North Korea’s violent sabre-rattling must be viewed in context.
North Korea’s vow to restart all its mothballed nuclear facilities is met with dismay by the United Nations, which urges leaders to end “aggressive” threats and begin talks.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un tells generals to prepare for an attack on the US, according to state media, after American stealth bombers flew over the Korean peninsula.
North Korea is scrapping its non-aggression pact with South Korea and shutting a shared border point in response to UN sanctions, insisting it reserves the right to a “pre-emptive nuclear attack”.
New satellite images show North Korea is extending the size of its prison camps and mistreating its own people on a massive scale under Kim Jong-un, a new report by Amnesty claims.
Kim Jong-Un’s officials vow to tear up the 1953 armistice if the US presses ahead with proposed sanctions and continues military drills.
North Korea says it will “never bow” to UN pressure to disarm following its nuclear test on Tuesday, the third in the country’s history.
North Korea’s latest propaganda video shows a rocket attack on New York but, as John Sparks asks, is anyone listening?
Google chief Eric Schmidt has ignited controversy by planning a visit to North Korea in what the company claims is a “personal trip”. But could the web giant open up the world’s most secretive regime?