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Kim Yo-Jong, a top North Korean communist official and sister of dictator Kim Jong-un, published a barely coherent string of insults and threats on Tuesday suggesting that international experts doubting the quality of North Korean weapons may soon prompt an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch across the Pacific Ocean.

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, warned on Tuesday the United States will “face a more fatal security crisis” if it continues pushing the United Nations to take action against North Korea’s illegal nuclear missile program.

North Korean state media reported on Saturday that dictator Kim Jong-un attended the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the company of his wife Ri Sol-ju and their “beloved daughter,” who has not previously been photographed or mentioned by the tightly-controlled media of the Communist tyranny.

The foreign minister of North Korea, Choe Son Hui, published an angry screed against America vowing Pyongyang would become a “more serious, realistic, and inevitable threat” to America so long as Washington pursued cooperation with South Korea and Japan.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with various world leaders at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, prominently including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea.

North Korea launched at least one ballistic missile in the direction of Japan on Wednesday, drawing a formal protest lodged by Japan via China. 

Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday surrendered custody of two dogs given to him by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in 2018.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup, held a joint press conference on Thursday in which they warned North Korea that using nuclear weapons would spell “the end of the Kim regime.”

North Korea went on an unexpected rampage Wednesday, launching 23 ballistic missiles and over a hundred artillery shells in the direction of South Korea.

The members of superstar South Korean boy band BTS will begin their mandatory military services imminently, their record label confirmed on Monday, effectively postponing their careers for at least three years.

The government of South Korea confirmed on Wednesday that a short-range missile fired in an attempted response to North Korea flying its own projectile over Japan this week crashed into a local golf course, causing panic among South Korean civilians.

 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris capped her four-day trip to Asia with a stop Thursday at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the Korean Peninsula, confusing onlooks by using the moment to  assert the United States has a “strong alliance” with “the Republic of North Korea.”

North Korea’s representative to the United Nations, Kim Song, told the General Assembly during its last day of addresses on Monday that the rogue communist state will continue to develop its nuclear arsenal so long as it feels intimidated by the United States.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio joined other free nations at the 77th U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an outrage that “tramples on the vision and principles of the U.N. Charter.”

Citizens lamented in remarks to Radio Free Asia published on Monday that North Korea has reinstated a mask mandate in some provinces about a month after declaring that the communist regime had completely eliminated the Chinese coronavirus from its territory.

North Korean state media reported on Friday that dictator Kim Jong-un signed a law making the Communist tyranny’s march to nuclear weapons “irreversible,” banning all further denuclearization talks with the outside world, and mandating an immediate nuclear attack if Kim or other top officials is harmed by foreign powers.

A U.S. intelligence report declassified on Monday said the Russians are buying huge qualities of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, a sign that heavily-sanctioned Russia is having difficulty obtaining or producing the munitions it needs to continue the invasion of Ukraine.

The official state newspaper of North Korea, Rodong Sinmun, appeared to confirm this week that communist dictator Kim Jong-un had suffered a Chinese coronavirus infection at some unspecified time this summer.

During an interview released on Wednesday’s edition of the “Fox News Rundown” podcast, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said that the joint military exercises between Russia and China, in addition to Iran sending drones to Russia, show that the “new axis

North Korea has likely amassed between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including extremely toxic nerve agents such as sarin, in recent years, according to estimates published in a joint report on Tuesday by the RAND Corporation and South Korea’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies, the website NK News reported.

Russian military aircraft entered South Korea’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday without giving Seoul prior notice, prompting the Republic of Korea Air Force to scramble fighter jets in response, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The former head of South Korean’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), Park Jie-won, warned on Monday that North Korea would “likely” test a nuclear weapon prior to the American midterm elections in November in response to Seoul resuming military exercises with the United States.

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful and confrontational sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, on Friday scoffed at South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s offer of economic assistance in exchange for denuclearization as “foolish” and told Yoon to “shut his mouth.”

The communist regime ruling North Korea declared victory against the Chinese coronavirus pandemic this week after only three months of having admitted to any coronavirus cases within its borders, publishing commemorative posters in its classic communist propaganda style.

Senior North Korean official Kim Yo-jong, communist leader Kim Jong-un’s sister, said in her first known televised speech on Thursday that the dictator had endured a “high and scary” fever during the nation’s declared Chinese coronavirus epidemic.

A Russian government network claimed this weekend that unspecified “reports” indicated that North Korea was willing to send as many as 100,000 soldiers into the Ukrainian war theater to support Moscow. 

A parade of impoverished, repressive socialist regimes lined up on Wednesday and Thursday to condemn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for visiting Taiwan — an attempt to court Chinese investment and political support as their economies sink and popular discontent reaches a fever pitch.

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol spoke to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for about 40 minutes on Thursday via phone – despite the fact that both are in Seoul, as Yoon declined to interrupt his vacation time to meet her.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday boasted that China’s “energy independence capacity” is at a record high of over 80 percent thanks to the Chinese Communist Party “beefing up energy security” by burning mountains of heavily polluting coal. Some of that coal is coming from North Korea, in defiance of U.N. sanctions.

North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un declared in a speech on Wednesday that his regime is “fully ready” to deploy its “nuclear deterrent,” meaning its illegal nuclear bombs, if necessary against the United States and its allies.

The official regime news agency of North Korea accused America on Sunday of being “a vicious sponsor of biological terrorism throwing mankind into destruction” in an article echoing Russian government claims that Washington was producing biological weapons in Ukraine prior to Moscow’s expanded invasion this year.

The communist regime in North Korea announced through its state news agency on Thursday that it would recognize two separatist entities in Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics,” as sovereign states, following in allies Russia and Syria’s footsteps.

Envoys for North Korea have apparently increased contact with Russia and its proxy separatist organizations in Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics,” in the months following the escalation of Moscow’s eight-year invasion of the eastern European country, the Pyongyang news site NK News observed Thursday.

The Rodong Sinmun state newspaper of North Korea published the results of an alleged “investigation” into the origins of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus epidemic in the country on Friday blaming the entry of the disease into the country on “alien things” from South Korea.

President Joe Biden held a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea – Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and President Yoon Suk-yeol, respectively – in Spain on Wednesday in which the two conservatives pressed Biden to prioritize the threat from communist North Korea.

China’s regime-run Global Times communist propaganda outlet condemned the discovery of at least 51 dead people attempting to illegally enter the United States on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, as a “stain on Washington’s human rights record” despite overwhelming evidence that the deaths were the product of extralegal human trafficking, not actions by the American government.