Hackers have pilfered billions of dollars by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies, the report found.

North Korea is circumventing UN sanctions by using cryptocurrency to trade raw materials and military weaponry, and by deploying large numbers of IT workers abroad to launder funds and generate income for Pyongyang,

US President Donald Trump said North Korea is a "sort of nuclear power" and that he is open to meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as he embarked on a tour of Asia where he will also meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

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.

North Korea has relaunched its international film festival in Pyongyang for the first time since pausing it during the coronavirus pandemic.

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

Trade between North Korea and China has surged to its highest level in six years, signaling a warming of bilateral ties.

Since last year, North Korea has further reinforced its side of the border with anti-tank barriers and other fortifications, South Korean officials said, amid Kim's move to officially abandon his country's decades-long goal of eventual reunification.