SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has conducted a hydrogen bomb test. The surprise announcement that complicates already difficult efforts to curb the country’s push for a working nuclear arsenal.
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.
The North Korean government is demanding Canadian officials apologize for “recklessly spouting rubbish” after expressing concern regarding the arrest of Hyeon Soo Lim, a Korean-Canadian pastor sentenced to a life of hard labor for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the Kim Jong-un regime.
Back in 2002, in the dark ages before Breitbart News Network, the great conservative commentator Ben Shapiro warned that the United States must “Keep an eye on Russia,” because “Russia is renewing her relations with America’s enemies.” Shapiro reiterated his message in 2007, warning America that “Russia isn’t to be trusted.”
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.
Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim, a Canadian citizen with a church in Toronto who was born in South Korea, has been sentenced to life in prison with hard labor by the North Korean regime.
North and South Korea ended two days of talks without any resolutions to recent disagreements. Neither side could also agree on a future meeting date.
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.
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.
The Japanese government is currently conducting tests to determine how the dozens of people found dead on dilapidated ships washing ashore died, and whether hypotheses that they came from North Korea are correct.
An unsettling mystery has washed up on Japan’s shores.
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.
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.
The heads of state of China, Japan, and South Korea are scheduled to meet Sunday for the first trilateral talks in three years. They are expected to focus on trade, their relationships with North Korea, and war history that has long divided Japan from the other two nations.
China and North Korea were judged weak on defense against hacker attacks in a recent Australian assessment of Asian-Pacific electronic security.
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North Korea has banned abortion and birth control as a means to remedy its rapidly falling birth rate.
“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
President Obama seems open to engaging in diplomacy with North Korea, pointing out that it would be possible to negotiate with the dictatorship, just as he was willing to negotiate with Cuba and Iran.
Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Uruguay, and Ukraine have received a non-permanent spot on the United Nations Security Council.
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.
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.
The Norwegian embassy in Israel has condemned a comic strip in the Dagbladet newspaper that compared Israel to Nazi Germany and North Korea as a “nation of murderers.”
The village of Nanping in China has been learning the hard way that good fences make for good neighbors. They have a bad fence, just three meters of barbed wire, and they live next to some of the most unruly neighbors in the world: North Korea. Nanping has become a virtual ghost town because North Korean soldiers have been crossing the border to rob and murder the Chinese.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server went down during key moments in recent foreign policy, including terrorist attacks, rendering Clinton and her aides frustrated with their inability to communicate.
