New Zealand and Australia to lodge formal protests after the four lawmakers were sanctioned for 'sending the wrong signals' Four New Zealand lawmakers who were handed travel bans by Beijing for visiting Taiwan have been accused of crossing a "red line" by the Chinese embassy in Wellington.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an “exponential” expansion of the country’s atomic arsenal during a visit to a newly operational nuclear material production factory, state media agency KCNA said on Thursday.