North Korea

The North Korean leader pledges backing for Moscow, during talks with Russia's foreign minister.

Details of how it was built - in a country largely closed to the outside world - are shrouded in secrecy.

A Seoul rights group says this is the first North Korea-born defector taking legal action against the regime.

All six people had drifted into South Korea by accident earlier this year and had wanted to go back.

Wonsan Kalma opens to domestic tourists on 1 July, six years after it was due to be completed.

Russia's Sergei Shoigu said Pyongyang would send 5,000 builders to its war-torn Kursk region.

The intrigue has less to do with the failure itself and more with how Kim Jong Un reacted.

The 5,000-ton destroyer was damaged when it capsized during the first attempted launch in May.