North Korea
Asia correspondent Ed White
Ed explains how Xi Jinping's administration is preparing for a new era of trade hostilities and geopolitical tension with the US under a Donald Trump presidency. Audio
25 Mark Crysell | A Stopover in North Korea
With decades of experience as one of New Zealand’s most prominent television journalists, Mark Crysell recounts gaining unprecedented access to follow a set of unlikely New Zealanders into North… Audio
Why North Korea's latest propaganda bop is a huge TikTok hit
When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un released his latest song two weeks ago, surely he couldn't have foreseen it becoming a hit on TikTok. Video
Dave Kulesza: Exploring the lesser-known North Korea
North Korea typically conjures ideas about the dark side of communism, a dictatorship and thoughts of repressed citizens living in crumbling concrete high-rises. Audio
Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie
Arrests have been made in Nepal after a gang was accused of smuggling people and forcing them into the Russian military to fight in Ukraine. The people trapped in the scheme and extorted were young… Audio
Kim's armoured train reportedly heading to Russia
Kim Jong Un is believed to be en route to Vladivostok to meet President Putin, the Pentagon has said.
North Korea launches new tactical nuclear attack submarine
North Korea has launched its first operational "tactical nuclear attack submarine" and assigned it to the fleet that patrols the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan, state media say.
North Korea shows off ballistic missiles, drones at night-time parade
A Chinese and Russian presence at a North Korean parade including UN-banned ballistic missiles is a shift from Beijing and Moscow's previous efforts to distance themselves from their neighbour's…
Asia correspondent Ed White
Ed talks to Kathryn about US court documents detailing a brazen scheme for getting cigarettes into North Korea worth hundreds of millions of dollars. There have been mixed signals given to western… Audio
US, South Korea consider joint nuclear exercises
It comes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un labelled the South its "undoubted enemy" in flaring cross-border tensions.
North Korea sold arms to Russia's Wagner group, US says
The US has accused North Korea of supplying battlefield missiles and rockets to the Russian mercenary group Wagner for use in Ukraine.
Asia correspondent Ed White
There's been high drama in Beijing at the conclusion of the Chinese Communist party five-yearly party congress. Asia correspondent Ed White talks to Kathryn about how any hopes of reconciliation… Audio
N Korea: missile tests simulate striking South with nuclear weapons
North Korea's flurry of missile tests were meant to simulate raining South Korea with nuclear weapons, as a warning, the state news agency says.
North Korea fires missiles ahead of US vice president's Seoul visit
South Korea's national security council has held an emergency meeting and condemned the test, vowing to continue building 'overwhelming' capacity to deter North Korea.
North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile into sea
North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast, South Korean military officials have said.
North Korea declares itself a nuclear weapons state
North Korea has passed a law declaring itself to be a nuclear weapons state, according to state news agency KCNA.
North Korea supplying Russia with weapons, US reports say
Russia has been forced to buy military hardware from North Korea as sanctions squeeze Moscow's ability to supply its military, US media have reported.
Geoff White on North Korea's prolific cyber-criminals
Geoff White is an author and investigative journalist who has been tracking the exploits of North Korean cyber criminals the Lazarus Group. He's examined how a reclusive country where the internet is… Audio
North Korea blames 'alien things' near border with South for Covid-19 outbreak
North Korea claims that the country's first Covid-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for the wave of…
South Korea, US launch missiles in response to North Korea firings
South Korea and the United States have fired eight surface-to-surface missiles off South Korea's east coast today in response to North Korea's short range ballistic missile launches on Sunday.
