
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

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 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.
by John Hayward1 Oct 2015, 8:50 AM 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

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

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

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

Last week, South Korea blamed the North for land mine explosions that maimed two South Korean soldiers and resumed propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years in retaliation. North Korea has denied the accusations and threatened to launch strikes on South Korean loudspeakers.
by Breitbart News17 Aug 2015, 7:46 PM PST0

The United States has “flexibility” when it comes to engaging North Korea and its nuclear weapons program, as shown by its willingness to seal an accord with Iran, the US Envoy tasked with re-engaging the Hermit Kingdom said Monday in Seoul, South Korea.
by Jordan Schachtel27 Jul 2015, 8:40 PM PST0

Moments after the Obama administration and world powers agreed to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, State Department officials said Tuesday that the United States was ready to re-engage North Korea in nuclear negotiations.
by Jordan Schachtel15 Jul 2015, 1:28 PM PST0

North Korea has reacted fiercely to a scathing new report of human rights abuses, threatening to take “tougher countermeasures” against the United States after Washington stated the communist country is guilty of some of the most grievous human rights violations on the planet.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Jun 2015, 9:22 AM PST0

A North Korean defector told CNN that dictator Kim Jong-un placed orders to murder his aunt Kim Kyong Hui, the daughter of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung.
by Mary Chastain12 May 2015, 11:01 AM PST0

After reviewing satellite images of North Korea, analysts believe the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon may have been reactivated, along with a uranium centrifuge facility.
by John Hayward30 Apr 2015, 8:47 AM PST0

Russia and North Korea continue to develop increasingly close ties. The regimes announced a program this week titled the “year of friendship.” The deep links between the two countries could cause more strains in an already vulnerable relationship between Russia and the West.
by Mary Chastain12 Mar 2015, 11:28 AM PST0

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un took time on March 8 to celebrate International Women’s Day with speeches and public events, handing out makeup to a crowd of pilots as gifts for their wives.
by Mary Chastain10 Mar 2015, 10:38 AM PST0

The Sony Pictures hack, which the U.S. State Department believes originated from North Korea, caused both a personal crisis for its employees and a potential national security crisis for the United States. One effect of the hack on interpersonal communications within Sony represents a regression
by Adelle Nazarian18 Dec 2014, 1:41 PM PST0