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Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’
- Film
- October 23, 2020
The Borat actor on his new film, why he's reluctant to be a celebrity and his long-standing distaste for Trump Borat uses the flower bed in fron(...)

North Korea vows to boost nuclear programme after US diplomacy failure
- Asia-Pacific
- June 12, 2020, 11:23
North Korea on Friday said that two years of diplomacy with US president Donald Trump had “faded away into a dark nightmare” and vowed to increase its(...)

How Kim Jong-un wrongfoots western intelligence
- Asia-Pacific
- April 28, 2020, 12:19
As soon as Rachel Lee wakes up, she fires up her computer and starts scouring North Korean newspapers, television broadcasts, academic journals and ob(...)

Kim Jong-un mounts white horse in propaganda campaign
- Asia-Pacific
- October 16, 2019, 10:22
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un mounted a white horse in an evocative propaganda stunt as his own deadline for US movement on nuclear talks is nearing(...)

Vladimir Putin hailed “fruitful” talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at their first summit, which boosted Moscow’s efforts to insert itself int(...)

Friday’s meeting between South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un will mark the culmination of whirlwind diplo(...)

North Korea, a small and poor country facing far stronger adversaries and the perpetual threat of its own collapse, would not seem a likely state to d(...)

North Korean man arrested over Kim Jong Nam killing
- Asia-Pacific
- February 18, 2017, 09:28
Malaysian police said on Saturday they had arrested a North Korean man in connection with the murder of the estranged half brother of North Korean le(...)

Timeline: 30 years of North Korea’s nuclear gains
- Asia-Pacific
- September 9, 2016, 11:56
1986 North Korea starts operation of a five-megawatt nuclear reactor at Yongbyon after seven years of construction with Soviet help. 1993 North Ko(...)

North Korea executes two officials in latest purge - report
- Asia-Pacific
- August 30, 2016, 14:42
North Korea publicly executed two officials in early August for disobeying leader Kim Jong-Un, a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday, in what w(...)