The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared a "serious emergency" and ordered lockdowns across the country after confirming the first-ever Covid-19 case in the country on Thursday.

Health experts have long raised doubts that the country, which has no vaccines, has been unaffected by COVID.

North Korean authorities have detected an outbreak of a Covid sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron, known as BA.2, according to state media, and announced a "grave national emergency"

The United States called out China and Russia on Wednesday for opposing further United Nations action on North Korea, warning that the Security Council "cannot stay silent any longer" as Pyongyang prepares for a seventh nuclear test.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's plans to offer economic aid in return for denuclearisation could face an early challenge amid signs of an imminent North Korean nuclear test - and such proposals have been rebuffed before, analysts say.

Yoon Suk-yeol faces range of ‘complex crises’, from N Korean nuclear tests and US-China rivalry to a slowing economy.

The ballistic missile North Korea launched last week appears to be the same model as the submarine-launched missile Pyongyang tested last October, Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said on Tuesday.

South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol called for the "complete denuclearization" of the North at his swearing-in on Tuesday, describing Pyongyang's weapons as a threat to regional and global security. Yoon, 61, who started work in an underground bunker with a security briefing on North Korea, took office at a…

Yoon Suk-yeol also wants closer relations with the U.S.