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North Korea warns impending military exercises by South Korea and the US is pushing the region towards war. John Sparks is in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

As South Korea bolsters its military forces amid tensions with the North, Chatham House Asia expert Dr John Swenson-Wright looks at the risky strategies ahead if a US-backed deterrence fails.

The US has sent one of its aircraft carriers to South Korean waters today, in a show of solidarity after the artillery attack by North Korea on its southern neighbour.

South Korean soldiers are killed after North Korea fires dozens of artillery shells across its maritime border prompting a return of fire. Lindsey Hilsum asks whether it shows a change in policy.

North Korea’s leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un has made his public debut during a massive show of the country’s military strength – featuring tanks, missiles and goose-stepping troops.

North Korea releases a photograph of Kim Jong-il and his son, confirming the rise of the Kim Jong-un as potential dynastic successor after his appointment of general earlier this week.

North Korea’s dear leader Kim Jong-il promotes his son to role of general as experts predict a family sucession, writes Nick Paton Walsh.

Kim Jong-il’s youngest son is appointed a general amid rumours he could take his father’s place as dynastic successor. Nick Paton Walsh looks at the potential change at the top of the secretive state.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il is poised to name his son as his successor, but it is difficult to tell what is really going on as a result of the country’s secretive regime, writes Nick Paton Walsh.

You may have missed the Dear Leader’s birthday earlier this week. They celebrated with synchronised swimmers performing to martial music and a festival of the kimjongilia, the flower named after North Korea’s “peerlessly brilliant commander”. On the day North Koreans were singing happy birthday to Kim Jong Il, I was chairing a discussion at the…