Kim jong un
Aug 14, 2020 11:05
The moves announced in state media reports Friday come as North Korea is facing flooding set to wipe out farmland and deal another blow to its already staggering economy. read more
Aug 09, 2020 07:25
A train carrying goods arrived in the “totally blocked” city of Kaesong on Friday, the official KCNA news agency reported. read more
Aug 06, 2020 13:55
North Korea declared an emergency and locked down Kaesong near the inter-Korean border in late July after finding a suspected virus case there. read more
Aug 06, 2020 13:10
But amid the outside skepticism and a stream of North Korean propaganda glorifying its virus efforts, an exchange between Pyongyang and the United Nations is providing new clarity — and actual numbers. read more
Jul 30, 2020 13:00
The new model challenges public nuclear stockpile figures that “generally estimate the size and proliferant stockpiles by using simple models”. read more
Jul 28, 2020 08:23
Kim told a meeting of veterans marking the anniversary of the end of the Korean War fighting that his country’s “trustworthy and effective” nuclear deterrence would ensure its permanent national safety and future, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday. read more
Jul 26, 2020 05:33
The move to lock down Kaesong City of North Korea has been taken as a “preemptive measure” following the report on the suspected case of Covid-19. read more
Jul 10, 2020 23:26
She spoke as the U.S.’s top official on the Koreas is in Asia. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun is in Japan after meeting South Korean officials in Seoul, where he accused a senior North Korean nuclear negotiator of being “locked in an old way of thinking.” read more
Jul 08, 2020 09:30
Trump said on Tuesday he is open to another meeting with Kim and thinks it might be helpful, Voice of America reported, citing a transcript of an interview Trump gave to Atlanta, Georgia-based Gray Television, due to be aired on Sunday. read more
Jul 03, 2020 10:41
Despite the warnings, state media said Friday that Kim reaffirmed government claims that there hasn’t been a single case of Covid-19 in North Korea. read more
Jul 03, 2020 07:17
Pyongyang has not confirmed a single case of the deadly disease that swept the world after first emerging in neighbouring China, but has imposed strict rules, including closing its borders and schools, and putting thousands of its people into isolation. read more
Jun 24, 2020 08:12
North Korea has been threatening to send troops to demilitarized zones for the last one week after tensions erupted with Seoul over defectors sending anti-Kim leaflets across the border. read more
Jun 24, 2020 08:10
Political tensions between the rival Koreas have been rising over Pyongyang’s objections to plans by defector-led groups in the South to fly propaganda leaflets over to the North. read more
Jun 23, 2020 09:09
The move is certain to intensify tensions between the Koreas, after the North abruptly raised its rhetoric against South Korean civilian leafleting and pushed to resume its psychological warfare against the South. read more
Jun 22, 2020 11:08
The destruction of the $15 million facility paid for by South Korea in the North Korean border city of Kaesong was one of the biggest provocations Kim Jong Un’s regime has made against its neighbour in years. read more
