
South Korea will resume propaganda broadcasts into North Korea on noon Friday – dictator Kim Jong-un’s birthday – likely to feature both criticism of the Kim regime and the South Korean genre of electro-pop known as K-pop.
by Frances Martel7 Jan 2016, 7:03 AM PST0

North Korea claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb – as they described it, an “H-bomb of justice” – that would represent a massive escalation in the Communist dictatorship’s nuclear capability, putting them one major step closer to having weapons that can hit the continental United States.
by John Hayward6 Jan 2016, 9:54 AM PST0

Billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump argues that South Korea and China should start addressing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, after the dictator nation claimed that it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.
by Charlie Spiering6 Jan 2016, 8:02 AM PST0

China has summoned the North Korean ambassador in ire over reports circulating last night that North Korea had detonated a hydrogen bomb, flagrantly violating international law.
by Frances Martel6 Jan 2016, 7:30 AM PST0

Kim Yang-gon, a senior North Korean official in charge of the nation’s relations with South Korea, died this week in a car accident, according to the communist nation’s official state news agency.
by Frances Martel30 Dec 2015, 9:48 AM PST0

When dozens of ships carrying decaying bodies began to wash ashore near Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, theories abounded regarding who were on the ships, where they were coming from, and what led to their deaths.
by Frances Martel17 Dec 2015, 11:17 AM PST0

BEIJING (AP) — An all-female band formed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un canceled its concerts in Beijing and abruptly left the Chinese capital on Saturday for unknown reasons, possibly further cooling relations between the traditional allies.
by Breitbart News12 Dec 2015, 11:33 AM PST0

North Korea does not like to be ignored for too long. The latest bid for attention from the nightmarish regime of Kim Jong-Un is the claim that his scientists have developed a hydrogen bomb, which would be a dramatic upgrade from the crude atomic weapons they have so far created.
by John Hayward11 Dec 2015, 6:41 AM PST0

A Japanese newspaper claims to have uncovered a North Korean spy guidebook teaching government officers how to abduct foreigners and extract information from them, proving that North Korea enforced a policy of systematic kidnapping under Kim Jong-Il.
by Frances Martel12 Nov 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

North Korea is planning a major tourism push beginning with new helicopter tours of Pyongyang this month in an attempt to boost one of its largest, and only, industries.
by Frances Martel11 Nov 2015, 8:58 AM PST0

North Korea has banned abortion and birth control as a means to remedy its rapidly falling birth rate.
by Dr. Susan Berry18 Oct 2015, 6:32 AM PST0

“McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin argued there is too much “fear and loathing” over North Korea and Kim Jong Un is “ready to undergo a conversion” economically on Friday. After columnist Pat Buchanan said South Korea has “a real problem
by Ian Hanchett17 Oct 2015, 12:33 PM PST0

In a belligerent speech commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Communist Workers’ Party, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un told a captive audience his military is “capable of fighting any kind of war” against the United States, implying that North Korea has nuclear capabilities.
by Frances Martel12 Oct 2015, 9:48 AM PST0

As North Korea prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the communist ruling Korean Workers’ Party, signs have begun to spring that the nation’s people are growing restless and fatigued of the constant military displays, crippling repression, and widespread poverty.
by Frances Martel7 Oct 2015, 8:20 PM PST0

The U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) chief and the assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs expressed concern about China’s declining influence over volatile and nuclear-armed North Korea.
by Edwin Mora17 Sep 2015, 7:50 PM PST0

“North Korea said it restarted its main plant for producing nuclear bombs, backing experts’ assessments that satellite imagery shows the facility to have been at least partly active for about two years,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
by John Hayward16 Sep 2015, 3:01 PM PST0

Contents: China’s Xi Jinping assesses the outcome of the WW II victory parade; Attendance by President Park Geun-hye a coup for China, S. Korea, taunting N. Korea
by John J. Xenakis14 Sep 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

North Korea appears to be renovating and building facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear site, a central element of its atomic weapons program, the U.N. nuclear agency’s head said on Monday.
by Reuters8 Sep 2015, 10:56 AM PST0

Contents: China displays belligerence, militarism in WW II victory parade; China’s weaponry highlighted by the anti-American ‘carrier killer’; Many world leaders snub China’s WW II victory parade; China sends warships to Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska; China rewrites history of WW II by giving credit to Mao instead of Chiang
by John J. Xenakis4 Sep 2015, 5:43 AM PST0

The weekend’s crisis on the Korean peninsula ultimately ended with North Korea expressing “regret” over the severe injury of two South Korean soldiers by land mines in the DMZ, while South Korea agreed to turn off the propaganda loudspeakers that had infuriated the North and led to declarations that it was preparing for all-out war.
by John Hayward25 Aug 2015, 10:23 PM PST0

North Korea’s front-line military troops were ordered to prepare for war following an exchange of fire with South Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
by Edwin Mora24 Aug 2015, 11:23 AM PST0

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is either “mad” or “he’s a genius” on Friday’s broadcast of the “Matt Murphy Show” on Birmingham, AL’s WAPI. Trump stated, “they’re talking about North Korea with South
by Ian Hanchett22 Aug 2015, 12:16 PM PST0

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops onto a war footing from 5 p.m on Friday after his government issued an ultimatum to Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Saturday afternoon or face military action. South Korean
by Reuters21 Aug 2015, 1:32 AM PST0

The Slovenian band Laibach made good on their promise to perform to a crowd of more than one thousand in Pyongyang, North Korea this week, the first foreign rock band to receive such permission from the Kim Jong-Un regime. They are expected to play a second concert Thursday night.
by Frances Martel20 Aug 2015, 1:31 PM PST0

United Press International (UPI) reports that North Korean soldiers are using pictures of South Korean President Park Geun-hye for target practice. They are putting pictures of her on targets and blasting away, with the “training session” broadcast by the dictatorship’s TV station as propaganda.
by John Hayward15 Aug 2015, 10:54 AM PST0