The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

Washington (AFP) - The United States on Thursday offered $5 million to track down a Singaporean businessman accused of violating sanctions on North Korea, including through oil shipments on a tanker seized last year.

The United States has asked the U.N. Security Council to meet publicly on North Korea on Friday, diplomats said, after Pyongyang fired multiple missiles, including a possible failed intercontinental ballistic missile.

North Korea said on Thursday that the United States and South Korea have made a very risky and wrong decision by extending air force drills, and that the two countries will come to know what a terrible mistake they have made, the North's KCNA news agency said.

Ulleungdo (South Korea) (AFP) - When a North Korean missile triggered an air raid siren warning locals on South Korea's island of Ulleungdo to seek shelter, no one -- including the deputy mayor -- knew what to do.

North Korea has launched a record number of missiles this year. Here are some of the key capabilities it is developing.

South Korea and the United States extended the ‘Vigilant Storm’ air drills in response to North Korean missile launches.

Alerts were issued on television, radio, loudspeakers and mobile phones

The hundreds of South Korean and American warplanes simulating attacks during drills are most likely what led North Korea to test a record number of missiles this week, experts say, but Pyongyang may also be turning up the heat before a nuclear test.

North Korea unsuccessfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during a new salvo of launches Thursday, the South Korean military said. The launches prompted South Korea and the United States to extend their ongoing joint air drills, the largest-ever such exercises, citing North Korea's "provocations". People in parts of northern Japan…