LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES ON NORTH KOREAN LEADER, KIM JONG-UN

US sends its nuclear 'sniffer' plane on 'emergency sortie' in Korea amid fears of new nuke test by Kim Jong-un 

20/04/17 23:50

20/04/17 11:25

State controlled media in Pyongyang warned North Korea could 'immediately wipe out the US mainland' and reduce its enemies 'to ashes'.

19/04/17 19:42

The US will conduct two major tests in May in the Pacific as part of the military's overall ballistic missile program to defend against North Korean or Iranian threats.

19/04/17 19:21

Trump said 'we are sending an armada' in Kim Jong-un's direction. He did not say it was already on its way. It was his defense secretary who made that claim.

19/04/17 16:22

If a pre-preemptive strike on North Korea is necessary to keep it from firing an intercontinental ballistic missile at the US, Graham said he would support it. 'If that's what it would take,' he told Today.

19/04/17 15:50

Prominent North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee, 37, is convinced dictator Kim Jong-un would use weapons of mass destruction against his enemies as a 'last stand' if he were to lose power.

19/04/17 12:28

VP Mike Pence warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the US military, promising it would give an 'overwhelming and effective' response to any use of conventional or nuclear weapons.

19/04/17 09:41

North Korea put on a musical show to mark the birthday of founding father Kim Il Sung which ended with a mock-up of rockets engulfing America in flames.

18/04/17 23:49

A Pentagon official on Tuesday said the ships remained off the northwest coast of Australia, thousands of miles from where the president and the Defense secretary had said they'd be.

18/04/17 22:09

In a show of strength toward the North Koreans, the U.S. could shoot down the country's next missile test. The Pentagon is looking for ways to strong arm Pyongyang.

18/04/17 01:39

Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol has warned that regular tests will be executed with 'all out war' a possibility if the US responded by taking military action against Pyongyang.

17/04/17 23:53

Dmitry Kiselyov, the pro-Kremlin anchor of Russia's main weekly TV news show 'Vesti Nedeli', said support for Trump (pictured) had plummeted in his country since his election win.

17/04/17 16:09

North Korea's 'highly trained' Special Forces troops carried rifles fitted with grenade launchers through the streets of the Pyongyang during a military parade in Pyongyang.

17/04/17 10:56

Tens of thousands of cheering North Koreans watched on as Kim Jong-un cut the ribbon on the sprawling Ryomyong Street development, in Pyongyang, which includes 5,000 flats.

17/04/17 01:48

This might look, at first glance, like the world’s biggest open-air office party, but peer closely at these images and you’ll soon realise demonstration is all a bit too “organised” for that.

16/04/17 21:12

Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea along with his family on Easter shortly after a failed North Korean missile launch that may have been 'thwarted by cyber attacks from the US.'

16/04/17 18:01

President Donald Trump was uncharacteristically quiet about the failed launch of a North Korean missile from the country's east coast on Sunday.

16/04/17 16:46

North Korea unveiled new weapons during a display of the country's military might in the country's capital Pyongyang to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the birth of the nation's founder.

16/04/17 15:57

North Korea has attempted to fire a missile but the launch ended in failure. It is thought to be one of the country's new 'game-changer' weapons revealed to the world in a parade yesterday.

16/04/17 14:05

North Korea attempted to fire a missile it introduced just hours previously at a military parade - but the launch was an embarrassing failure after the weapon blew up five seconds later.

16/04/17 08:06

Ung-gil Lee defected to the South after serving six years as a deadly nerve agent. Lee was recruited into the 11th Storm Corps at the age of 17 by his uncle who was a senior party official.

15/04/17 19:39

Crowds waved flags and flowers in a colourful display of patriotism captured on camera in front of the world's media - a rare public display by leaders in the secretive state.

15/04/17 18:53

The intercontinental ballistic missiles increased concerns that North Korea is preparing for an attack on Washington after they were paraded during the country's Day of the Sun celebrations.

15/04/17 18:46

North Korean officers and soldiers are allegedly under investigation after spreading a joke comparing Kim Jong Un to a kindergartner.

15/04/17 18:42

President Trump sent an aircraft carrier-led strike group to the Korean Peninsula as US officials feared the dictator would mark the national holiday by launching its sixth nuclear weapons test.

15/04/17 18:39

North Korea unveiled prototypes of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) in a worrying show of force during its Day of the Sun parade in Pyongyang, experts said.

15/04/17 11:16

The President has a vast range of possible ways of dealing with North Korea ranging from cyber warfare to a missile strike - and even a nuclear attack of his own.

15/04/17 09:26

As millions of North Koreans celebrate the Day of the Sun today, his ambitions have put the nation’s fate on a knife-edge and threatens peace throughout East Asia, writes MARK ALMOND.

15/04/17 01:03

Vice Minister Han Song Ryol of North Korea accused Trump of building up a 'vicious cycle' of tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

14/04/17 07:01

President Trump will order a preemptive missile strike against North Korea in the next few days if he is told Kim Jung-Un is ready to go ahead with a nuclear test, according to intelligence officials.

13/04/17 15:49

Siti Aisyah, from Indonesia, and Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam are the only suspects in custody in the February 13 killing of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged brother of North Korea's dictator.

13/04/17 15:45

US government officials believe North Korea has placed a nuclear device in a tunnel and plans to detonate it on Saturday as they prepare for their sixth nuclear test.

13/04/17 14:50

The Trump administration may introduce a complete oil embargo on North Korea and a global ban on its airline as part of a wider strategy to force Kim Jong-un to back down over nuclear missiles.

13/04/17 11:57

There are fears the North Korean dictator is adapting his fleet of subs so they can fire nuclear warheads amid heightened tensions with the West.

13/04/17 10:52

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he feared Kim Jong-un 'has a capability' to fire missiles tipped with sarin - the same deadly gas used to kill 87 Syrian civilians in a gas attack last week.

13/04/17 00:07

President Donald Trump said North Korean president Kim Jong-un is doing the 'wrong thing' as he talked up the power of the U.S. 'armada' heading toward the tense Korean peninsula.

12/04/17 15:21

President Donald Trump said Wednesday on Twitter that he had 'a very good call' with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Tuesday night dealing with 'the menace of North Korea.'

12/04/17 15:10

The Special Warfare Development Group, best known as SEAL Team 6, will carry out drills in South Korea. It is the team which in May 2011 shot the Al-Qaeda leader dead in Pakistan.

12/04/17 13:23

Life in the North Korean military can be tough, but that isn't always the case as these images of soldiers relaxing and going on fairground rides in the capital of Pyongyang show.

12/04/17 05:15

The acting U.S. ambassador to Australia James Carouso said the world shouldn't be comfortable, as North Korea develops nuclear missiles that could hit Australia in two years.

12/04/17 00:53

What may be about to unfold on the Korean Peninsula could be far, far more serious and destructive than the continuing charnel house that is Syria’s brutal conflict.

11/04/17 23:04

Trump promised the Chinese they would get 'far better' trade terms with the U.S. if they de-fang a hostile North Korea, but pledged to handle Pyongyang with or without Beijing's help.

09/04/17 05:26

A U.S. Navy group will be heading towards the Korean peninsula from Singapore as concerns grow that Kim Jong Un is advancing his country's nuclear arsenal, it was revealed on Saturday.

09/04/17 01:19

Under the portly Kim Jong Un – a 33-year-old Swiss-educated thug who took power on the death of his father six years ago – North Korea has ramped up its nuclear weapons programme.

06/04/17 23:50

A North Korean envoy to Moscow said Pyongyang had the 'readiness and ability to counter any challenge' and would act after 'even the smallest provocation from the United States'.

06/04/17 19:43

Alcohol from other countries landing in North Korea is on the rise, but it appears Kim is hitting the harder stuff with 10 times more rum arriving in 2016 compared to 2015, MailOnline can reveal.

05/04/17 14:33

The dictator imported suspenders and corsets among his huge haul from China, which is more than double the figure he spent last year when he blew £33million statues of himself and his family.

04/04/17 18:03

Security experts fear money stolen from the cyber heists is being used to bolster North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un's plans to create a long-range nuclear missile system.

04/04/17 08:19

Donald Trump issued a warning that the U.S. would take unilateral action against North Korea should China decline to do so in a move which could lead to war, writes MAX HASTINGS.

03/04/17 19:21

Senior North Korea defector Thae Yong Ho said that the world should be prepared for a nuclear war because 'desperate' Kim Jong Un 'can do anything beyond the normal imagination'.

31/03/17 22:52

The extravagant purchases come as tensions rise between the dictator and Donald Trump over North Korea's nuclear weapon programme.

31/03/17 09:53

This is the extraordinary moment a brave journalist confronted three North Korean diplomats and asked them if they assassinated Kim Jong-Nam.

29/03/17 20:01

The secretive state is focusing on developing drones in an attempt to make up for the inferiority of the country's air forces as well as to conduct better reconnaissance, South Korea has warned.

28/03/17 19:18

Images from Saturday showed the continued presence of vehicles and trailers at the Punggye-ri test site and signs that communications cables may have been laid to a test tunnel.

24/03/17 20:40

North Korea is in the final stages of testing a nuclear weapon at Punggye-ri on the east coast 'at any time' once Kim Jong-Un gives the green light, officials in the region have claimed.

22/03/17 16:13

A rocket is believed to have exploded seconds after its launch in Wonsan, North Korea - but reports it was aimed towards Japan have not been confirmed.

21/03/17 11:58

Kim Jong-Un released a military propaganda video depicting North Korean troops blowing up a US aircraft carrier.

20/03/17 16:23

North Korea said it would use its 'invincible' missiles 'tipped with nuclear warheads' to defend its territory as South Korea warned its neighbour had carried out 'meaningful' new rocket engine tests.

20/03/17 01:59

Trump told reporters traveling with him from Florida to Washington on Air Force One that Kim, who conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket Saturday, is misbehaving.

15/03/17 20:45

A growing US presence off the Korean Peninsula is reportedly part of a plan aimed at 'incapacitating' Kim Jong Un's despotic regime in Pyongyang should conflict break out.

11/03/17 12:24

A North Korean chemist suspected of masterminding the murder of Kim Jong-Un's brother has claimed he is the victim of a Malaysian conspiracy to tarnish his country.

09/03/17 18:31

These are the depressing pictures of Kim Jong-un's Pyongyang zoo, where once the prize attraction was a female chimpanzee who smoked cigarettes.

09/03/17 18:18

President Donald Trump could send B-52 nuclear bombers to the Korean peninsula as the arms race with Kim Jong-un's North Korea.

08/03/17 10:37

Beijing wants North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for a halt in joint military drills conducted by the US and South Korea.

07/03/17 20:03

North Korea said missile launches were training for a strike on US bases in Japan. Three of the four missiles fired came down close to US ally Japan, to the seeming delight of NK's leader, Kim Jong-Un.

07/03/17 15:26

North Korea has banned all Malaysians from leaving the country in a dramatic escalation of the row over the death of Kim Jong-Un's half brother.

03/03/17 14:38

Frustrated Malaysian officers believe Ri Jong Chol was involved in the plot to kill Kim Jong-nam at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, but were forced to free him due to a lack of evidence.

02/03/17 22:36

North Korean Ri Jong-Chol is to be released on Friday after Malaysian officials could not find sufficient evidence to charge in him connection to the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam.

01/03/17 12:25

Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, were charged Wednesday with the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, after his assassination at a Malaysian airport.

28/02/17 14:35

Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 28, are believed to have assassinated Kim Jong-nam with a lethal nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur's main airport on February 13.

27/02/17 16:57

The North Korean officials are said to have produced false reports which angered the country's leader which resulted in them being murdered with the hugely powerful weapons.

27/02/17 16:05

A single propaganda photograph of the North Korean leader appears to give away more about the secretive nation than its security officials might like, according to analysing experts.

27/02/17 15:26

Malaysian police investigating the murder of Kim Jong-un's half-brother at Kuala Lumpur airport want to speak to his mistress as part of their inquiry.

26/02/17 15:37

Malaysia's health minister said Kim Jong-nam died within '15 to 20 minutes' after he was poisoned with toxic chemicals. Kim died at Kuala Lumpur airport on February 13.

25/02/17 01:46

Kim Jong Nam had traces of banned VX, which is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations, on his face and his eyes after being targeted at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

23/02/17 22:38

North Korea issued a rare reproach of China, its main diplomatic backer, after Beijing halted imports of its coal because of its missile and nuclear programmes.

23/02/17 22:09

Doan Thi Huong, who is being held in Malaysia over the killing of Kim Jong-nam in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, can be seen wearing a shirt with 'LOL' emblazoned on the front.

21/02/17 11:55

Malaysia's Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said no cause of death has been determined and authorities are still awaiting the results of an autopsy.

20/02/17 17:02

Kim Jong-nam died en route to a hospital following a seizure at Kuala Lumpur International Airport after two women allegedly sprayed him in the face with poison.

20/02/17 14:25

Preparations are believed to be underway to bring senior North Korean delegates to the United States for talks with former US officials, the first such meeting in more than five years.

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