The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the death penalty but placed new restrictions on its application.

Kim Jong Un has since 2020 ramped up efforts to purge South Korean dramas, music, and even slang, which he views as a threat ...

North Korea has executed two women who were helping fellow citizens to defect from the country after they were captured and ...

Doctors have been sentenced to three-to-five years in prison for carrying out clandestine abortions in their homes.

What's going on in North Korea? Why did Kim Jong-un publicly revealed his visit ... the U.S. Department of State and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. The Capital Cable is made possible ...

State media images of Kim Jong-un visiting a uranium enrichment plant did not include its location. But analysts say ...

The missiles lifted off from Kaechon, north of the capital Pyongyang, at around 6:50 a.m. (2150 GMT Tuesday) in a northeast direction and flew about 400 km (249 miles), South Korea's Joint Chiefs ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday test-fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, adding to its military ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday test-fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, adding to its military ...

North Korea has given a rare insight into the heart of its secretive nuclear weapons programme which produces fuel for atomic bombs. Images released by the country's state news agency (KCNA ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un holds talks with Russia’s security chief North Korean state media said Kim and Russia’s security chief discussed ways to strengthen cooperation between the two ...