The Latest Breaking News from Pyongyang

British American Tobacco (BAT) has been fined $635 million for breaching sanctions on North Korea. The British multinational, a leader in the sale of tobacco products, will pay the record sum to US authorities. BAT's Singapore subsidiary admitted to selling cigarettes to North Korea over a decade between 2007 and…

British American Tobacco, one of the largest tobacco companies in the world, agreed to settle allegations that it did illegal business with Pyongyang in violation of U.S. sanctions.


TOKYO: Japan ordered its military on Saturday to prepare to shoot down a North Korean ballistic missile after Pyongyang said this week that it was ready to launch its first military spy satellite.

North Korea held a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the completion of 10,000 new modern homes in the newly built Hwasong District in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported.

Paris (AFP) - China's ambassador for the Korean peninsula on Friday accused the US of "using" regional tensions to reinforce an anti-Beijing alliance, after weeks of mounting rhetoric and missile tests by Pyongyang.

Allies condemn ‘in the strongest terms’ Pyongyang’s latest weapons test, and urge end to ‘destabilization’.

Long-term tensions between North Korea and Japan have risen dramatically after residents of Hokkaido were evacuated from their home when the hermit kingdom test-fired what could be a new type of ballistic missile. 

North Korea said Friday it flight-tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, a possible breakthrough in its efforts to acquire a more powerful, harder-to-detect weapon targeting the continental United States. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency issued the report a day after the country’s neighbors detected…

Seoul (South Korea) (AFP) - North Korea said Friday it had successfully tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, hailing it as a key breakthrough for the country's nuclear counterattack capabilities.