North Korea

Asia Correspondent John Sparks reports from inside North Korea on celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean war.

As North Korea marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean war, Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks attends the opening of a massive cemetery in the capital, Pyongyang.

Panama asks the United Nations to advise it what to do about the North Korean ship caught smuggling arms from Cuba – and says two more containers have been found.

Panama’s President Ricardo Martinelli says “undeclared military cargo” has been seized from a North Korean-flagged ship coming from Cuba as it approached the Panama canal.

Three weeks after their last attempt at dialogue collapsed, South Korea offer to hold talks with North Korea aimed at reopening a jointly run factory park near the armed border.

The city of Dandong, on China’s north eastern border, offers a glimpse of how the black economy may be transforming North Korea – and it’s not only the humans who want to sample Chinese life.

As North Korea bars prominent Americans to visit to plead for the release of Kenneth Bae, author Adam Johnson, whose book on North Korea won the Pulitzer Prize, describes the secretive state.

An American is sentenced to 15 years hard labour in North Korea after the Communist regime accused him of trying to overthrow the state.

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.

No mass parades and no missile launches, just muted celebrations in North Korea to mark its founder’s birth. The United States is urging the regime: stop the threats and enter talks.

North Koreans are managing to catch a glimpse of the outside world – from foreign soap operas on television to smuggled films on DVD. John Sparks reports on the first rumblings of change.

The BBC hits back at criticism from the London School of Economics which claims an undercover Panorama reporter put a group of its students at risk on a trip to North Korea.

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.

South Korea and its American allies raise their alert levels on expectation that the north is preparing a missile launch in the coming days. John Sparks reports from the border area.

Following last week’s warning that foreign diplomats in Pyongyang should quit their embassies, North Korea advises foreigners in South Korea to leave the country.