Sept. 6 (UPI) — Dennis Rodman has detailed his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the activities the pair take part in when the retired basketball star visits the country. “I basically hang out with him all the time, we laugh, we sing karaoke, we do a lot of cool things together,” Rodman said during an interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
Contents: Putin says that North Korea would rather ‘eat grass’ than end its nuclear program; North Korea threatens the United States with ‘gift packages’
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha claimed following a chat with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Tuesday that China could potentially support harsher sanctions on North Korea following its sixth illegal nuclear test on Sunday.
North Korean authorities sent a delegation to Russia on Monday to participate in a regional forum led by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
South Korea put on a tremendous show of military force in a set of live-fire drills on Monday, as South Korean intelligence reported signs of activity at North Korean launch sites, possibly indicating more provocative missile launches are coming soon.
China has responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off trade with countries that deal with North Korea as “unfair,” while claiming they are making “arduous efforts” to de-escalate tensions in the region.
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has continued publishing a stream of violent invective, on Monday threatening a “horrible disaster” for South Korea should they continue their civil and military alliance with America.
North Korea’s increased belligerence in the face of new administrations in Washington and Seoul has culminated in a sixth nuclear test this weekend, an event President Donald Trump took as an opportunity to challenge his leftist South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, on his policy of dialogue with the communist regime.
When Barack Obama handed off to his successor the presidency of the United States, he impressed upon Donald Trump that his greatest worry was North Korea.
President Donald Trump said “appeasement will not work” with the “rogue nation” of North Korea, because “they only understand one thing,” after dictator Kim Jong-un conducted the Communist nation’s sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb test.
South Korean officials have confirmed a blast at a nuclear testing site in North Korea that the nation appears to be claiming was a test of a hydrogen bomb.
North Korea’s state media announced Friday that the country has issued a new set of stamps to commemorate the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in July, yet another sign the nation’s communist regime remains unapologetic about its belligerent threats to its neighbors and the United States.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor released a report on the “Prisons of North Korea” this week. As one might imagine, there is precious little democracy or human rights to be found in the report, but plenty of labor.
North Korea has dismissed protests against its increasingly belligerent use of missile testing from the United States, calling America a “nuclear criminal” and threatening “final doom” in a state newspaper column published Thursday.
In an interview with DuJour, former basketball star Dennis Rodman praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un for his alleged success in modernizing the nation.
Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday that the U.S. is not out of diplomatic options to denuclearize North Korea.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un once again threatened American military and civilians on the island of Guam on Tuesday, describing his outrageous launch of a missile over Japan as a “meaningful prelude to containing Guam, an advanced base of invasion.”
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun celebrated the anniversary of official diplomatic ties between the communist regime and its ally Cuba on Wednesday, touting the nations’ “common cause of the world progressive peoples for independence against imperialism and for socialism.”
Prior to President Trump’s inauguration, North Korea made it clear it was prepared to give the new U.S. administration time to review the policy and come up with something better than President Obama’s.
Residents of northern Japan woke up to horrifying alerts warning of a North Korean missile attack Tuesday morning, and many have told local news outlets they had little idea what to do or where to go to stay safe.
North Korea’s state media threatened to “bury the entirety of the U.S. under water [sic]” in a threatening column published Monday, the latest in its ongoing series of existential threats against America.
The continuing threats by North Korea’s “Dear Respected Comrade” Kim Jong Un to nuke the United States has boosted the bomb shelter business, which was already booming as progressive liberals joined conservative preppers in getting ready for the “big one.”
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.
China is abiding by United Nations sanctions on North Korea, halting shipments of coal and seafood, among other exports. Yet, as they fall out of the scope of the sanctions, China continues to supply Pyongyang with a pivotal oil supply that can diminish the effects of the sanctions, Australia’s ABC reported Sunday.
Vice President Mike Pence urged Chile, Peru, Mexico, and other Latin American nations to consider cutting all diplomatic ties to North Korea during his visit to Chile on Wednesday, suggesting only a full diplomatic freeze could pressure the rogue communist state to cease its constant threats of nuclear attack.
Contents: China opens a new front in its border war with India; Survey of Bhutan’s people shows high anxiety over border confrontation; North Korea apparently backs down from the threat to attack Guam
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday wishes North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un all “health and happiness” over the country’s “Liberation day,” amid threats from the dictator to fire missiles into U.S. territory Guam.
Author Michael Malice joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the experiences in North Korea that informed his book “Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il.”
Amid hopeful signs that North Korea is backing away from its threat to launch missiles at Guam, one piece of data from the impenetrable communist state remains troubling: dictator Kim Jong-un has not been seen in public for about two weeks.
North Korea backed down Monday from a threat to fire missiles at the U.S. territory of Guam, according to a North Korean state media report cited by the Wall Street Journal.
North Korea’s state media has published a column Monday listing a variety of foreign members of communist, pro-North Korea organizations in another attempt to dispel the image of the “hermit kingdom” as diplomatically isolated.
During Saturday’s “AM Joy” on MSNBC, host Joy Reid reacted to President Donald Trump “casually threatening” Venezuela and promising “fire and fury” to be unleashed on North Korea, saying it is getting harder to tell the difference between what Trump
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks commented on President Trump’s statements about North Korea by saying it’s possible the president believes in the madman theory, but that such a theory is dangerous in a situation both leaders could
Former President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice admitted on Thursday that, over the course of Obama’s two terms in office, his administration failed to stop the communist North Korean government from building its nuclear weapon capability.
The communist government of North Korea touted an apparently thousands-strong rally in the heart of Pyongyang – Kim Il-sung Square – Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s warning that any attack on U.S. soil would be met with unprecedented “fire and fury.”
During a discussion at the Netroots Nation Annual Conference on Friday, DNC Deputy Chair Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) stated President Trump is threatening Kim Jong-un and that North Korea’s leader is acting in a more responsible manner than the president
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN International Correspondent Will Ripley stated that it’s as if President Trump is baiting North Korea into conducting missile tests that would be more provocative than anything North Korea has done before. Ripley said, “All of
On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) stated that President Trump says things that seem like they could have been said by Kim Jong-un. Anchor Kate Bolduan asked Engel, “The country [North Korea] put out a statement saying that President Trump
The situation remains unstable, and could escalate. But Trump’s rhetoric is not, as former Obama adviser Susan Rice claims, the problem. In fact, it is part of the solution. It has, at the very least, restored some of our deterrence.
President Trump’s warning that North Korean threats would be met with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” triggered paroxysms of nuclear war anxiety among many in the mainstream media. Instead of sober analyses of the military situation with North Korea, we got “OMG TRUMP IS GOING TO BLOW UP THE WORLD” hysteria.
