An underground movement that describes itself as a “provisional government” remains fully engaged in a plan to overthrow North Korea’s communist regime, according to a new bombshell report published this week.
An anonymous “person knowledgeable about the matter” told the Wall Street Journal in a report published Monday that Kim Jong-nam, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s late older brother, was a CIA informant before his 2017 assassination.
Doan Thi Huong, the second of two women accused of murdering North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, in 2017, was released from prison in Malaysia on Friday. Her co-defendant, Siti Aisyah, was abruptly released in March, with all charges dropped.
A Vietnamese woman has been sentenced to just three years and four months in jail for her involvement in the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s half brother Kim Jong-nam.
Three weeks after charges were suddenly dropped against her Indonesian co-defendant, 30-year-old Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam pled guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to three years and four months in jail for the murder of Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The case against Siti Aisyah, one of the two women charged with murdering North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s half-brother with a chemical weapon in February 2017, was suddenly released and sent home to Indonesia on Monday. Aisyah has been jailed in Malaysia for the past two years as the prosecution moved forward.
The U.S. State Department announced new sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday that are directly tied to the February 2017 murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of dictator Kim Jong-un.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly promoted his sister to a role running the country’s state security apparatus.
North Korea’s state media have turned the tables on the United States, accusing America of being the “world’s biggest terrorist sponsor” after the State Department officially issued that label to the rogue communist state.
Kim Yo-jong, the 28-year-old sister of dictator Kim Jong-un, has become only the second woman in Communist North Korean history to join the Politburo. The first was Kim Kyong-hui, who was likewise the sister of the dictator at the time, Kim Jong-il.
A Japanese magazine called Nikkei Asian Review reported this week that North Korea’s chilly relations with its longtime patron China are due, in part, to a Chinese plan that would have eliminated North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and replaced him with his half-brother Kim Jong-nam.
Contents: North Korea’s neighbors tense as the ‘Day of the Sun’ approaches on Saturday; Japan’s Shinzo Abe: N. Korea may be able to attack Japan with Sarin gas missile; China’s tripwires for invading North Korea
North Korea’s foreign ministry warned Monday that its government is prepared to go to war with the United States, following remarks from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in which he said the Trump administration was prepared for a military engagement with the communist dictatorship should they strike U.S. allies.
Contents: Venezuela’s Socialist government arrests bakers because of bread shortage; Venezuela’s political opposition now publishing inflation data; Suspicions grow that Kim Jong-nam’s Malaysia assassination was not with VX nerve gas
The United States announced on Monday that it will permanently station attack drones in South Korea in what may be a continuing response to North Korea’s missile launches last week, among other provocations.
Contents: Malaysia’s relations with North Korea continue rapid deterioration; China promises retaliation over surprise deployment of THAAD in South Korea; South Korea threatens to sue China in World Trade Organization (WTO)
North Korea responded to Malaysia’s expulsion of its ambassador and tighter restrictions on North Korean travel by announcing a travel ban of its own. In classic North Korean style, their travel ban prevents Malaysians from leaving Pyongyang, effectively taking all of them hostage.
On Monday, Malaysia made good on a threat to expel North Korea’s ambassador over the assassination of Kim Jong-nam. Malaysia also banned its soccer team from traveling to North Korea.
Contents: Malaysia expels North Korea’s ambassador Kang Chol; Malaysia accused of fronting North Korean weapons sales; Kim Han-sol, son of Kim Jong-nam, under guard to prevent North Korean assassination; New sanctions indicate China is running out of patience with Kim Jong-un
The sole North Korean held by Malaysian authorities for the murder of Kim Jong-nam, half-brother to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, was released from custody and deported on Friday.
The strange saga of Kim Jong-nam’s death in Malaysia continues to unfold. The two women who allegedly exposed him to lethal VX nerve agent are charged with murder, and a North Korean held in the case is released and deported. The North Korean government, which is seeking to claim Kim’s remains, is asserting that he died of a heart attack.
The United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) issued a trilateral statement on North Korea on Monday, denouncing Pyongyang’s “flagrant disregard for multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions prohibiting its ballistic missile and nuclear programs” and calling for “strong international pressure on the regime.”
As the international community continues to grapple with how to properly reduce the global risk of an emboldened and increasingly erratic North Korea, South Korea warns that dictator Kim Jong-un appears to have completely overhauled his intelligence agency.
Lawmakers in South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of masterminding the murder of dictator Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam in Malaysia. Meanwhile, an Indonesian official revived the theory that the killers were innocent women duped into poisoning the victim.
February has proven to be a big month for North Korea. In two very different but frightening ways, it has demonstrated a capability to strike out at targets. It has made clear no one is safe should Pyongyang wish to reach out and touch—or kill—someone.
Malaysian police have announced that Kim Jong Nam, the older half-brother of North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un, was assassinated with VX nerve agent, classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction.
Strange developments continue in the politically-charged Kim Jong-nam murder case, which has created a good deal of tension between China, North Korea, and Malaysia where the assassination occurred.
China’s Global Times concedes that the suspension of North Korean coal imports until 2018, plus a ban on many Chinese exports to North Korea, is “unprecedented.”
Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia has condemned North Korea’s diplomats to the country as “diplomatically rude” in the wake of the death of Kim Jong-nam, brother of dictator Kim Jong-un.
The Washington Post reported that a New York-based think tank is seeking permission for North Korean representatives to visit the U.S.
Contents: China announces it will block imports of North Korea’s coal; Assassination of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother in Malaysia threatens relations with China and North Korea
Two poison-slinging female North Korean agents have reportedly assassinated Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of dictator Kim Jong-un.
