North Korean hackers have stolen billions of dollars by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and by creating fake identities to get remote jobs for foreign tech firms, a new report finds.

North Korean defectors urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major conference on the issue opened in downtown Seoul on Wednesday.

New multilateral report details how Pyongyang’s hackers launder billions in stolen crypto. Proceeds used to fund nuclear and other programmes.

North Korea is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the ruling party and foreign dignitaries and leaders will be part of the commemoration.

North Korea successfully tested a "new cutting-edge weapons system" involving hypersonic missiles, state-run media reported Thursday, amid heightened regional tensions.

North Korea test fired ballistic missiles days before President Donald Trump's Asia trip to meet China's Xi Jinping and other leaders in South Korea.

The report came a day after South Korea’s military said it detected the North firing multiple missiles from an area south of the capital, Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks with Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith in Pyongyang on Tuesday, North Korean state media KCNA said on Wednesday.

Donald Trump calls North Korea ‘sort of a nuclear power’ ahead of Asia trip. Could a meeting with Kim Jong Un be on the horizon? Experts weigh in.

Experts had said North Korea could conduct provocative missile tests before or during a regional summit in South Korea as it seeks to gain recognition as a nuclear weapons state.