Tag: North Korea
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Seoul trying to learn if Kim has a son but daughter’s status as heir appears solid
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says it is trying to determine if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a son, while the spy agency maintains ... -
Russia and North Korea open the first road link across shared border
Russia and North Korea opened the first road bridge across their narrow stretch of border yesterday [Macau time], creating a new physical link between the two ... -
Kim shrugs off Trump’s scaled-back drills with South Korea, saying it changes nothing
North Korea said that a U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea does not change what it sees as the provocative nature of ... -
Kim’s military conducts ballistic missile test days before rivals
North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea yesterday, South Korea’s military said, resuming weapons tests days before its rivals the U.S. and South ... -
Kim claims progress on nuclear-armed navy as new warship is placed into service
North Korea has commissioned a 5,000-ton destroyer that leader Kim Jong Un touts as a symbol of the country’s growing naval and nuclear capabilities, state media reported yesterday, ... -
Strategic guidance keeps China-DPRK ties advancing with times, achieving new progress
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Monday and ... -
Kim Jong Un showcases new warship ahead of visit by China’s Xi
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed sea trials of a new warship repaired after a failed launch last year and vowed to accelerate efforts to ... -
Singapore foreign affairs minister visits North Korea, agrees to boost ties: reports
Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan held talks with his North Korean counterpart Choe Son-hui in Pyongyang on Tuesday, with both sides agreeing to deepen bilateral ... -
North Korean leader Kim backs China’s push for ‘multipolar world’ in talks with foreign minister
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un voiced support for China’s push to build a “multipolar world” and called for deeper ties between the traditional allies during a meeting ... -
Kim says its latest weapons tests included missiles with cluster-bomb warheads
North Korea said yesterday its testing spree this week involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, as it pushes to expand ... -
North fires missiles toward sea after ridiculing South’s hopes for better ties
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea yesterday in its second launch event in two days, South Korea’s military said, hours after a ... -
Kim inspects new warship, claims progress toward nuclear-armed navy
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected his new destroyer for two straight days ahead of its commissioning and observed a test of cruise missiles fired from ... -
Seoul’s spy agency says Kim’s daughter is close to be designated as future leader
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers yesterday that it believes the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is close to being designated as ... -
North Korea launches ballistic missiles toward sea ahead of Lee’s visit
North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea yesterday, its neighbors said, just hours before South Korea’s president left for China for talks expected to cover North Korea›s ... -
News from outside disappears in North Korea
For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if ... -
North Korea’s top diplomat meets with Putin on a visit to Russia
North Korea’s top diplomat visited the Kremlin yesterday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which followed last month’s meeting between the countries’ leaders. Putin and ... -
Ruling party turns 80 with foreign leaders in attendance
North Korea is celebrating today the 80th anniversary of the ruling party and different foreign dignitaries and leaders will be part of the commemoration. The Workers’ ... -
Kim brings daughter to Beijing, fueling speculation she may be heir
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has brought his young daughter on his most significant foreign trip in years, a trip to China that marks his ... -
Kim inspects new missile factory ahead of visit to China
North Korea said yesterday leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles in a ... -
Kim will meet with Xi and Putin at Chinese military parade
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make his first visit to China in six years to attend a military parade next week, the two countries ... -
Kim slams South Korea-US drills during an inspection of his most powerful warship
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned South Korean-U.S. military drills and vowed a rapid expansion of his nuclear forces to counter rivals, state media said ... -
North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work ‘like slaves’ in Russia
Thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work in slave-like conditions in Russia to fill a huge labour shortage exacerbated by Russia’s ongoing invasion of ... -
North Koreans swim and play at a beach resort touted as a boost for tourism
North Koreans swam, rode water park slides and enjoyed other water activities at a newly opened mammoth beach resort, state media reported yesterday, as the country ... -
Biggest tourist site opens next week, not yet welcoming foreigners
North Korea next week will open a signature coastal tourist site that it says will usher in a new era in its tourism industry, though there ... -
Destroyer is damaged in a failed launch at a ceremony attended by Kim
North Korea’s second naval destroyer was damaged in its failed launch to the water this week, state media reported yesterdayy, in an embarrassment for leader Kim ... -
North Korea unveils nuclear-powered submarine for the first time
North Korea unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and ... -
US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea, days after North Korea test-fired missiles
A U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea yesterday in a show of force, days after North Korea test-launched cruise missiles to demonstrate its counterattack capabilities. ... -
Kim slams US and Asian rivals for pursuing ‘absurd’ plans to denuclearize North
North Korea yesterday criticized the United States and Asian neighbors for pursuing the “absurd” goal of denuclearizing the North and said it will push to expand ... -
Seoul says North Korea is destroying facility that hosted reunions of war-separated families
North Korea is demolishing a South Korea-built property that had been used to host reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War, the South’s government ... -
Kim slams US-South Korea-Japan partnership and vows to boost his nuclear program
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed ... -
Inside the operations that took captive two North Korean soldiers fighting Ukraine
When Ukrainian soldiers captured two North Korean prisoners of war last month, it provided the first undeniable proof of Pyongyang’s direct involvement in the war against ... -
Spy agency says N. Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine haven’t shown desire to defect
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers yesterday that two North Korean soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk ... -
North Korean troops in Ukraine gain battlefield experience, cementing alliance with Russia
For weeks, Ukrainian troops braced for an unfamiliar enemy: North Korean soldiers sent to bolster Moscow’s forces after Ukraine launched a lightning-fast incursion and seized territory ... -
North Korea says it tested hypersonic intermediate range missile aimed at remote Pacific targets
North Korea said Tuesday its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike remote targets in the Pacific as leader Kim Jong ...
