The crisis over North Korea's nuclear program deepens when US President Donald Trump underscores his threat to rain "fire and fury" on Kim Jong-Un's regime by saying his apocalyptic warning perhaps "wasn't tough enough."

China should remain neutral if North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States, a Chinese state-run newspaper says, sounding a warning for Pyongyang over its plans to fire missiles near the US Pacific territory of Guam.

A former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement to Hitler couldn't stop the Second World War from happening. This infamous reference point is raked up by the free rein the North Korea's predictably unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un has had, according to some analysts. Whether this is a bad or good analogy only time will reveal; and we needn't wait too long to find that out.

North Korea announces a detailed plan to launch a volley of ballistic missiles toward the US Pacific territory of Guam, a major military hub and home to US bombers, and dismisses President Donald Trump’s threats of “fire and fury” if it doesn’t back down.

North Korea says it is considering plans for a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump tells the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury".

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to build pressure on North Korea after securing a new round of United Nations sanctions as he launched into two days of high-level diplomacy Sunday.

The US is willing to sit down for talks with North Korea, but only if it relinquishes its pursuit of nuclear weapons, says US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

North Korea is behind an increasingly orchestrated effort at hacking into computers of financial institutions in South Korea and around the world to steal cash for the impoverished country, a South Korean state-backed agency says in a report.

Two tourist agencies that operate tours to North Korea say the US government will soon ban its citizens from traveling to the North.

New images of North Korea's main nuclear facility show that the isolated regime has apparently produced more plutonium for its weapons programme than previously thought, a US monitor said, as tensions soar over Pyongyang's ambitions.

Bangladesh expresses deep concern at the recent launching of a ballistic missile by North Korea.

North Korea launched a ballistic missile Tuesday as the US prepared to mark its Independence Day, triggering a Twitter outburst from President Donald Trump who urged China to "end this nonsense once and for all".

North Korea compares US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in its latest diatribe, amid high tensions over Pyongyang's military ambitions and ahead of a visit to Washington by South Korea's new leader.

North Korea calls US President Donald Trump a "psychopath" as tensions soar following the death of American student Otto Warmbier, who was evacuated in a coma from North Korean detention last week.

North Korea fires an unidentified projectile, South Korea's military says.

A new ferry between isolated North Korea and Russia docks for the first time at the Pacific port of Vladivostok, in spite of US calls for countries to curtail relations with Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs.

A senior North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the United States says Pyongyang would have dialogue with the US administration if conditions were right, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

China says tension over North Korea had to be stopped from reaching an "irreversible and unmanageable stage" as a US aircraft carrier group steamed towards the region amid fears the North may conduct a sixth nuclear weapons test.

North Korea's army vows a 'merciless' response to any US provocation, as tensions soar over Pyongyang's nuclear programme and speculation mounts that it is preparing a fresh weapons test.

North Korea will be allowed to travel to South Korea for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics if it wishes to take part, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Monday.