North Korea Sentence

Travis King's lawyer said he was later released because of good behavior and time served.

Video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 years' hard labour for watching K-pop.

A man in South Korea has been sentenced to one year and two months in prison for writing a poem in 2016 praising authoritarian North Korea and breaching a law banning access to the North's websites, news agency Yonhap reported on Monday.

A US State Department report has found that Christians in North Korea who are caught with a Bible face the death penalty, and their families, including children, are sentenced to life imprisonment.

A US cryptocurrency expert was sentenced to 63 months in prison for advising North Korea on how to create cryptocurrency services and blockchain technology to circumvent US sanctions over its nuclear program, court officials in New York said.

The ever-escalating war of words between the United States and North Korea got dialed up to 11 on Wednesday, when an editorial in a state-run newspaper called President Donald Trump a coward who deserved the death penalty.

Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home -- to North Korea

Pyongyang has sentenced four South Korean journalists to death for book reviews that insulted the North, state media said on Thursday.

A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

The US State Department on Tuesday urged North Korea to pardon an American student who was sentenced last year to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a political banner from a hotel.

North Korea's Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labour for subversion, North Korean media reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against the isolated state.

North Korea has sentenced an ethnic Korean citizen of the United States to 10 years in prison.

North Korea on Thursday crowed over the recent shock electoral defeat of the South's ruling party, calling it a political "death sentence" handed down on President Park Geun-Hye.

North Korea has presented another American detainee before the media, nine days after it sentenced a US tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labour for subversion.

North Korea has released CCTV images showing American student Otto Warmbier removing a political banner from a wall in a hotel -- a "crime" that saw him sentenced to 15 years hard labour.

Travis King's lawyer said he was later released because of good behavior and time served.

Video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 years' hard labour for watching K-pop.

A man in South Korea has been sentenced to one year and two months in prison for writing a poem in 2016 praising authoritarian North Korea and breaching a law banning access to the North's websites, news agency Yonhap reported on Monday.

A US State Department report has found that Christians in North Korea who are caught with a Bible face the death penalty, and their families, including children, are sentenced to life imprisonment.

A US cryptocurrency expert was sentenced to 63 months in prison for advising North Korea on how to create cryptocurrency services and blockchain technology to circumvent US sanctions over its nuclear program, court officials in New York said.

The ever-escalating war of words between the United States and North Korea got dialed up to 11 on Wednesday, when an editorial in a state-run newspaper called President Donald Trump a coward who deserved the death penalty.

Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home -- to North Korea

Pyongyang has sentenced four South Korean journalists to death for book reviews that insulted the North, state media said on Thursday.

A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

The US State Department on Tuesday urged North Korea to pardon an American student who was sentenced last year to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a political banner from a hotel.

North Korea's Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labour for subversion, North Korean media reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against the isolated state.

North Korea has sentenced an ethnic Korean citizen of the United States to 10 years in prison.

North Korea on Thursday crowed over the recent shock electoral defeat of the South's ruling party, calling it a political "death sentence" handed down on President Park Geun-Hye.

North Korea has presented another American detainee before the media, nine days after it sentenced a US tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labour for subversion.

North Korea has released CCTV images showing American student Otto Warmbier removing a political banner from a wall in a hotel -- a "crime" that saw him sentenced to 15 years hard labour.