North Korea has vowed to disregard the 1953 truce that ended the Korean War, in response to South Korea’s joint military drills with the US.
North Korea says it won’t use prisoner Kenneth Bae as leverage with the US, but analysts suspect Pyongyang may be bluffing.
The United Nations has appointed a team of investigators to seek evidence of possible torture, executions and forced labor in North Korea.
Drug-resistant TB is the latest health crisis to strike North Korea, where medical progress has suffered under Western sanctions.
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American jailed in North Korea, was detained for attempting to spread propaganda that called for the regime’s overthrow, according to Pyongyang.
Nine young North Korean refugees were forcibly returned to Pyongyang after escaping to Laos.
