# pyongyang - Wednesday 18 May, 2022
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The country reported 232,880 new cases of “fever” as of Tuesday evening, bringing the total number to 1.72 million with 62 deaths.
# pyongyang - Friday 13 May, 2022
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
Experts have warned the virus could be devastating in a country with a broken health care system.
# pyongyang - Thursday 12 May, 2022
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
The country had never admitted to a case of the virus and had imposed a rigid coronavirus blockade of its borders since 2020.
# pyongyang - Saturday 7 May, 2022
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
The US State Department warned that Pyongyang could be preparing for a nuclear test “as early as next month”.
# pyongyang - Sunday 20 March, 2022
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
Four shots were fired into western waters during a span of an hour from 7.20am.
# pyongyang - Monday 31 January, 2022
# Missile Test
# Missile Test
The reported flight details make it the most powerful missile North Korea has tested since 2017.
# pyongyang - Monday 17 January, 2022
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
The country has been ramping up tests in recent months of new missiles designed to overwhelm missile defences in the region.
# pyongyang - Saturday 15 January, 2022
# North Korea
# North Korea
South Korea said it detected the North firing two missiles into the sea in its third weapons launch this month.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 11 January, 2022
# Tensions
# Tensions
The early-morning launch came as the UN Security Council met in New York to discuss last week’s test.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 5 January, 2022
# North Korea
# North Korea
The launch followed a speech by Kim Jong Un last week in which he said North Korea would continue to build up its military capabilities.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 19 October, 2021
# North Korea
# North Korea
The launch came soon after the US pledged to resume diplomacy over Pyongyang ’s nuclear weapons programme.
# pyongyang - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
US officials played it down as not a violation of UN resolutions.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 24 February, 2021
# Great Defector
# Great Defector
The man was caught only after apparently falling asleep.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 23 June, 2020
# At Loggerheads
# At Loggerheads
A propaganda war is fuelling the escalating tensions between the two countries.
# pyongyang - Sunday 3 May, 2020
# Demilitarised Zone
# Demilitarised Zone
The fire exchange took place a day after North Korea reported its leader Kim Jong Un’s first public appearance in some 20 days.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 14 April, 2020
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
South Korea said that the missiles were fired towards the sea.
# pyongyang - Monday 2 March, 2020
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
The lack of testing activity in past months had experts wondering whether the North was holding back its weapons displays.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 31 December, 2019
# North Korea
# North Korea
Kim spoke for seven hours during the ruling Workers’ Party meeting in Pyongyang .
# pyongyang - Monday 9 December, 2019
# Weapons Test
# Weapons Test
This comes as Pyongyang said it had carried out a major new weapons test.
# pyongyang - Thursday 3 October, 2019
# Nuclear Threat
# Nuclear Threat
North Korea and the United States are due to meet this weekend.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
# Kim Jong-un
# Kim Jong-un
Washington and Pyongyang are set to resume long-stalled talks in the coming days.
# pyongyang - Friday 16 August, 2019
# Tense
# Tense
North Korea blamed blamed South Korea and US military exercises.
# pyongyang - Friday 28 June, 2019
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
Alek Sigley has not been heard from since Tuesday.
# pyongyang - Saturday 4 May, 2019
# Tensions
# Tensions
South Korea has said North Korea fired a number of projectiles into the sea.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 24 April, 2019
# Russian Talks
# Russian Talks
The talks will be Kim’s first face-to-face meeting with another head of state since his meeting with Trump.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 6 March, 2019
# Rocket Site
# Rocket Site
The activity was recorded days after the summit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
# North Korea
# North Korea
The North Korean leader says the state might be compelled to explore a ‘new path’ of defense if US sanctions remain unchanged.
# pyongyang - Sunday 7 October, 2018
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
The top US diplomat met with Kim for around two hours this morning in the North’s capital.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has invited his North Korean counterpart to meet in New York next week.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 31 July, 2018
# Nuclear
# Nuclear
Following the Singapore summit in June, President Donald Trump had declared that Pyongyang was “no longer a nuclear threat”.
# pyongyang - Thursday 14 June, 2018
# Urgency
# Urgency
US President Donald Trump has proudly declared that there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 9 May, 2018
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
The US President said they ‘seem to be in good health’.
# pyongyang - Friday 27 April, 2018
# Good Neighbours?
# Good Neighbours?
Kim was flanked by his sister and close adviser Kim Yo Jong.
# pyongyang - Monday 23 April, 2018
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
Few details were released about the bus crash, but a now-deleted tweet claimed that 30 had died.
# pyongyang - Saturday 21 April, 2018
# Progress
# Progress
Donald Trump tweeted that “progress [is] being made for all”.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# Pyongyang
# Pyongyang
South Korea also claims that Pyongyang said it would consider abandoning nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees.
# pyongyang - Monday 5 March, 2018
# Dinner Host
# Dinner Host
It is the first time the North Korean leader has met with officials from the South since taking office in 2011.
# pyongyang - Saturday 23 December, 2017
# Nuclear Weapons
# Nuclear Weapons
The sanctions will restrict oil supplies vital for Pyongyang ’s missile and nuclear programmes.
# pyongyang - Thursday 30 November, 2017
# North Korea
# North Korea
“If war comes, make no mistake – The North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.”
# pyongyang - Monday 13 November, 2017
# Border Shooting
# Border Shooting
The soldier survived the shooting.
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