North Korea

North Korea is firmly in the current fray. It has accused the United States of being “reckless” and “foolish” after President Trump ordered an aircraft carrier to sail into waters just off the Korean peninsula.

Malcolm Chalmers, director of the proliferation and nuclear policy programme at the Royal United Services Institute, and Christopher Hill, dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and former Ambassador to South Korea.

The fallout from the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader in Kuala Lumpur continues.

North Korea has sparked international condemnation after test-firing at least four ballistic missiles, expressly banned under United Nations treaties.

Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst on North Korea who also served as director for Korea and Japan at the US National Security Council.

The assassins of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, used the world’s deadliest nerve agent to kill him, according to Malaysian police.

Interview with Paul French, the author of North Korea: State of Paranoia.

Two more suspects have been arrested in Malaysia over the mysterious death of the North Korean leader’s half brother Kim Jong-Nam. He’s thought to have been targeted by assassins while boarding a flight for Macau at Kuala Lumpur airport. But the full details are still emerging and nothing is really as it seems.

It reads like the plot of a cloak and dagger murder mystery: the half brother of North Korea’s dictator collapsing in the departure hall of Kuala Lumpur airport after apparently being sprayed with poison.

Hyeonseo Lee, a North Korean defector and author of The Girl with Seven Names.

Has North Korea’s Kim Jong-un had his half-brother killed?

North Korea has launched a ballistic missile off its eastern coast – in an apparent challenge to President Trump. News of the test launch came as Mr Trump was hosting Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe.

He’ll claim he’s making America great again without even taking office yet. On the second working day of the year, President-elect Donald Trump has been using social media to further his own agenda, both externally in the case of China and North Korea and internally against House Republicans and against America’s big car manufacturers.

“A remarkable woman who got remarkable stories” – the BBC’s director general Tony Hall joins many others in paying tribute to the life and work of Sue Lloyd-Roberts, who has died of cancer.