According to a high-level diplomat who defected from North Korea recently, dictator Kim Jong-un is “racing ahead with nuclear development, after setting up a plan to develop it at all costs by the end of 2017.”
2016 was a difficult year in many parts of the world for those who sought to be different under authoritarian regimes. Whether Communists, Islamists, or the religious intolerance of their own families, these individuals took a stand and, in some cases, paid the ultimate price to advocate for freedom.
In a television interview over the weekend, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said there was “serious concern” in Beijing about President-elect Donald Trump’s policy toward Taiwan.
The Jewish state’s Iron Dome aerial defense system could be used by South Korea to mitigate threats posed by North Korea, an Israeli diplomat said this past week, according to the Yonhap news agency.
The political crisis in South Korea came to a head on Friday, as the National Assembly voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye. A two-thirds majority vote was needed.
North Korea faces a new round of U.N. sanctions that will reduce its export revenues by an estimated 25 percent, in response to its illegal nuclear test in September.
North Korea is observing a three-day period of mourning for Fidel Castro, seen by the North as a rare comrade-in-arms against the common enemy of the United States.
North Korea has finally commented on America’s election of Donald Trump as its next president, insisting that Pyongyang has no plans to change its policies based on the new head of state.
The Yonhap news agency reports that South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn will ask President-Elect Donald Trump to support South Korea’s efforts to denuclearize North Korea.
The administration of outgoing President Barack Obama has committed foreign policy and economic failures driving the United States into its demise, predicts state-controlled media in communist North Korea, noting that the American leader failed to deliver the “great change” he promised.
The remains of a Prisoner of War (POW) who starved to death in a prison camp in North Korea are coming home 65 years later.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye asked her nation’s forgiveness in a second apology address Friday over sharing classified information with a longtime friend with ties to a mysterious cult, and she denied accusations of allowing exorcisms to occur in the presidential palace.
A bombshell awaits America—one that, for all intents and purposes, will permanently define the legacy of President Barack Obama and, if elected, Hillary Clinton.
Two Australian men tricked the country of North Korea when they posed as members of the Australian Golf Team.
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Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper lamented that convincing North Korea to denuclearize is “probably a lost cause” during a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations. He added that “significant inducements” to limit their nuclear program would be the only solution to eliminating the threat of an attack on one of its neighbors.
A nuclear monitoring group called 38 North, based at Johns Hopkins University, believes the latest satellite surveillance shows North Korea may be preparing to conduct a sixth nuclear test detonation.
President Barack Obama’s drive to hand off control of Internet domains to a foreign multi-national operation will give some very unpleasant regimes equal say over the future of online speech and commerce.
It was more than a little discordant to hear Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tell the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that it is “essential to prevent disruption” of the Syrian ceasefire agreement, while Syrian warplanes — allegedly with Russian help — were showering bombs on the besieged city of Aleppo, with a ground operation waiting in the wings.
On Wednesday, South Korea’s parliament asked Defense Minister Han Min-koo if his forces had a plan to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, should he make a credible attempt to deploy nuclear weapons.
North Korean Foreign Affairs Minister Ri Yong Ho ardently attacked the United States at the podium of the UN General Assembly Friday, accusing Washington of “extremely dangerous aggression” and “constant nuclear threats.”
A plurality of registered voters say the Islamic State is the greatest threat America is facing today. Along with those who consider the Islamic Republic of Iran to be America’s greatest threat, a total of 42 percent of Americans consider Islamist rivals the greatest challenge to peace and security on U.S. soil.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat had reached a new “dimension,” menacing the peace of the entire region and meriting the strongest response from the Security Council.
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton predicted that the impending transfer of Internet domain control from American supervision to an international body will mean the end of the Internet “as we know it.”
A mistake by North Korean network providers opened up the country’s internet domain, revealing that the country has just 28 websites of the over a billion domains that exist worldwide.
Variety reports that China has undertaken a sudden and thorough purge of Korean entertainment, possibly to retaliate against South Korea for accepting the deployment of an American THAAD missile defense system or possibly as “a protectionist measure against the overwhelming success of Korean content in China.”
North Korea discovered that one of the problems with spending most of your impoverished Communist dungeon state’s GDP on military hardware is that you don’t have much left over to handle emergencies, such as a flood that leaves 100,000 people homeless.
South Korea and Japan are looking to China and Russia, permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, to aid in their quest to stop North Korea from conducting yet another nuclear test, following the nation’s fifth and most powerful one yet.
“I think we are at a turning point nationally, where a choice is going to be made to reject the course that we’ve been on,” said Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reports that Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui criticized North Korea’s nuclear testing on Saturday, during a meeting with Pyongyang’s ambassador to China.
A South Korean military source told the national outlet Yonhap that his government is ready to reduce Pyongyang “to ashes” after the latest North Korean nuclear test, with “every Pyongyang district… completely destroyed.”
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North Korea claims to have conducted its fifth, and by far most powerful, nuclear bomb test on Friday morning, in defiance of United Nations resolutions. Condemnation from world leaders was immediate, including even North Korea’s patron China.
(Reuters) – North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on Friday, setting off a blast that was more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
North Korea has announced its Vice Premier for Education, Kim Yong-Jin, was executed by firing squad last month. His crime, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry, was “slouching during a meeting of parliament in late June presided over by Kim Jong Un.”
North Korea’s communist dictatorship had two reasons to celebrate this week: the anniversary of the imposition of its “military first” ideology and the allegedly successful test of a ballistic missile under the watchful eye of Kim Jong-un.
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Two venerable annual events are currently in progress on the Korean peninsula: the annual U.S.-South Korean joint military exercise and North Korea threatening to launch a nuclear war because of said exercise.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean state media on Saturday accused a diplomat who defected from Britain to South Korea of fleeing to escape punishment for a variety of crimes, including child rape, for which Pyongyang had sought to extradite him.
