August 31, 2016 North Korea executes top official, banishes 2 others, South Korea claims North Korea has executed a vice premier and banished two other top officials to rural areas for re-education, South Korean officials said Wednesday.
August 30, 2016 North Korea reportedly executes two top officials with anti-aircraft guns North Korea publicly executed two top officials earlier this month by shooting them with anti-aircraft guns, a South Korean newspaper reported Tuesday.
August 30, 2016 UN Security Council condemns latest North Korean missile tests North Korea on Saturday expressed anger at United Nations Security Council discussions over a statement denouncing the country's latest submarine-launched missile test.
August 28, 2016 N. Korea threatens to fire at truce village holding US, S. Korea troops North Korea on Saturday threatened to aim fire at the lighting equipment used by "provocative" American and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.
August 24, 2016 North Korean submarine missile launch shows secretive program picking up steam A ballistic missile fired from a North Korean submarine on Wednesday flew about 310 miles, the longest distance achieved by the North for such a weapon, Seoul officials said, putting all of South Korea, and possibly parts of Japan, within its striking distance.
August 23, 2016 Seoul: North Korea fires submarine-launched missile into sea The South Korean military says North Korea has test-fired a missile from a submarine off its east coast.
August 23, 2016 Tensions run high in Asia as South Korea, US begin annual military drills North Korea threatened Monday to launch a nuclear first-strike and turn Seoul and Washington, D.C., into "a heap of ashes" — a threat that comes on the heels of China using its military to signal that it, too, would go to war to enforce its territorial claims.
August 23, 2016 North Korea plants land mines near truce village inside DMZ, UN claims The American-led UN Command in South Korea on Tuesday accused North Korea of planting land mines near a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.
August 22, 2016 North Korea threatens 'pre-emptive nuclear strike' amid US, South Korea drills North Korea threatened Monday to turn Seoul and Washington into “a heap of ashes through a Korean-style pre-emptive nuclear strike” if they showed any signs of aggression toward the North’s territory during their annual military drills.
August 20, 2016 North Korea calls top diplomat who defected to South 'human scum' North Korea said Saturday that a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea is a criminal and "human scum," in its first official response to the defection.
