Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, as the two countries attempt to deepen relations amid sanctions and escalating confrontations with the West, the Associated Press reported. Wednesday’s visit...
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The French first used balloons in war for reconnaissance during the battles that erupted after the French Revolution in the late 18th century. Now the inflatable devices have become a mainstay of the psychological warfare underscoring the tensions between North and South Korea. North Korea, for...
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North Korea’s tourism industry shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Around 100 Russian tourists who recently visited the so-called Hermit Kingdom might help revive it, though. “When you look at North Korea you realize that your grandma and grandpa were living like they do here,” travel...
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North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un scrapped a decades-long process of facilitating reunification with South Korea, demanding instead for it to be designed as his country’s main antagonist in the constitution, and warning of war, Reuters reported. Addressing his rubber-stamp legislature, the dictator called for South...
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North Korea began removing any mention of its reunification policy and the doctrine of “one people” with South Korea from its media coverage this week, signaling a shift that the authoritarian regime could rationalize the use of its nuclear arsenal against Seoul in the future,...
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North Korea launched its first spy satellite this week, prompting neighboring South Korea to suspend parts of a 2018 military pact aimed at reducing tensions between the two countries, NBC News reported. On Tuesday, Pyongyang launched the Malligyong-1 satellite on a Chollima-1 rocket from its west...
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North Koreans face hunger, forced labor, shortages of medicine and other supplies, and no freedom of expression or assembly, according to North Koreans who managed to escape the so-called Hermit Kingdom and tell their stories to the world. Yet when more than 500 North Korean citizens...
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North Korea expelled American soldier Travis King, who crossed into the country two months ago complaining of ill-treatment while in the US Army, CBS News reported. State-controlled media said King confessed to illegally entering the country through neighboring South Korea on July 18. On early Thursday...
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The mother of an American serviceman who sprinted across the border to North Korea last month recently said her 23-year-old son, Travis King, would never seek refuge in the totalitarian country known as the Hermit Kingdom, reported the Army Times. North Korean officials, meanwhile, wrote the...
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North Korea detained a US soldier who crossed into the country from South Korea on Tuesday, an incident that comes amid heightened tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear program, NBC News reported Tuesday. The US-led United Nations Command said the American national, who was being sent back to...
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North Korea failed to launch its first spy satellite, the country announced Wednesday, dealing a blow to the nuclear-armed state’s efforts to strengthen its military capabilities amid ongoing tensions with the United States and its neighbors, NBC News reported. The Chollima-1 rocket carrying the Malligyong-1 spy...
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North Korea recently fired an intercontinental ballistic missile over Japan, one of five such launches in the region over a week-long period despite the crippling sanctions against the autocratic Asian country. The missile fell harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean, the Japan Times reported. But Japanese...
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North Korea passed new legislation in recent days asserting the country’s status as a nuclear state, with leader Kim Jong Un announcing that the country would never abandon its nuclear weapons, the Wall Street Journal reported. The new law – approved by the country’s rubber-stamp parliament...
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For more than two years, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un insisted that the coronavirus had not pierced his country's population, even as health experts and media worldwide found evidence that the illness had spread throughout the globe. Recently, however, Kim admitted that Covid-19 has reached...
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North Korea confirmed its first Covid-19 cases Thursday, two years after the isolated nation had insisted it was virus-free, NBC News reported. State-controlled media said that test samples collected this week showed that an unspecified number of people were infected with the omicron variant of the...
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North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Thursday, the first major weapons test by the country in more than four years, the Wall Street Journal reported. Data from the Japanese and South Korean military showed that the missile reached an altitude of more than 3,700...
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