The foreign ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea are looking to schedule a meeting in Japan next week, the first time Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will have visited Japan and first such visit since Xi Jinping became president.
North Korea’s state-owned airline, Air Koryo, apparently pushed China’s civil aviation regulators beyond the limits of their patience with an emergency-landing incident last month. On Wednesday, China announced that Air Koryo’s operations would be limited until significant improvements in pilot training and maintenance are made.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s deputy ambassador in London has defected with his family, according to media reports, which if confirmed would make it one of the most high-profile defections in recent years from the increasingly isolated country. South Korea’s
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The Latin American Herald Tribune caught some North Korean media reports about the diplomatic adventures of Choe Ryong-hae, viewed as the Number Three man in the Kim regime, practicing “diplomacy” at the Rio Olympics.
Japan filed a protest against China over the weekend, as six Chinese coast guard ships were spotted among a fleet of over 200 fishing boats in the disputed Senkaku Islands.
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is reportedly in the middle of yet another purge, executing six in relation to the restaurant worker defections to South Korea that Pyongyang has alleged were “abductions.”
Joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea are on the horizon, which means it is time for North Korea’s perennial saber-rattling. In this case, as the Associated Press reports, the erratic Communist regime is also furious that leader Kim Jong Un was added to a list of sanctioned individuals by the United States in early July.
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On Monday’s “Mark Levin Show,” former Defense Intelligence Agency Director and current advisor to and potential VP selection of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Lt. Gen Michael Flynn (Ret.) argued, that Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Russia are “secular
The government of North Korea has announced that it will cease communicating with American officials through its mission in New York and instead shift to “relations under the wartime law of the DPRK,” following the announcement of the first direct sanctions on dictator Kim Jong-un by the American government last week.
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The truth has a way of slipping through even the most tightly clenched totalitarian fingers. Such was the case with Under the Sun, a documentary co-created by a Russian filmmaker and North Korea’s psychotic regime. It was supposed to depict a happy family living in the Worker’s Paradise, but it ended up exposing Pyongyang’s propaganda machine.
Vice President Joe Biden warned China that the Japanese government may acquire nuclear weapons “virtually overnight” if the threat from North Korea becomes too grave, urging Beijing to do more to curb Pyongyang’s belligerence. The Vice President’s comments echo those
North Korea still has a perfect failure record launching ballistic Musudan missiles, according to American and South Korean intelligence reports, but one of two missiles launched on Wednesday reached an altitude of 620 miles, the best yet on record.
The government of North Korea has published a scathing editorial demanding that Kenneth Bae, an American Christian missionary freed after being sentenced to 15 years hard labor, “commit suicide” following the publication of a book in which he details his life in a North Korean labor camp.
An unnamed U.S. official has confirmed to Reuters that evidence indicates North Korea has begun to once again produce plutonium fuel, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
The editorial appeared to approve of Trump’s foreign policy, suggesting that Trump’s comments about not entering the conflict between both North and South Korea is “fortunate from North Koreans’ perspective.”
A study newly released by the NGO Walk Free Foundation found that North Korea has more slaves per capita than any other nation in the world, with India boasting the largest absolute number of slaves within its borders.
The North Korean government conducted its fourth failed launch of a medium-range Musudan missile on Monday morning local time, a sign experts are interpreting as indicating increased desperation on the part of the Kim Jong-un regime in the midst of some of the sternest global sanctions in history.
After months under some of the harshest UN sanctions in history, North Korea is pushing to bring its biggest rivals, South Korea and the United States, to the negotiating table.
On Wednesday, South Korean officials rejected yet another call from Pyongyang for bilateral talks, as the communist Kim Jong-un regime pushes for a “reunification” plan that would put Seoul under his command.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton plans to take a page out of the Obama administration’s Iran playbook and use sanctions to force North Korea to limit its nuclear program, reveals her top foreign adviser.
In an interview that aired Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) discussed a potential meeting between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, should Trump be elected president this fall. Sessions said he wasn’t
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump tells Reuters that he would speak with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about stopping that country’s nuclear program.
(AFP) – Belgium faces a growing crisis in its prisons, with the army called in to help and inmates stuck in their cells 24 hours a day as the government struggles to end a strike by prison staff. “The situation
North Korea wrapped up its four-day Workers’ Party conference on Monday by declaring it would continue working on nuclear weapons — for “defensive” purposes, of course — and threatening to wipe out South Korea, if their neighbor “opts for war.”
The American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae — who spent over 700 days as a captive of the North Korean communist regime — says the Holy Spirit held his hand through an “interrogation” exercise.
A surf instructor who has coached celebrities and billionaires in Hawaii and Orange County is now taking his classes to the beaches of North Korea.
In an apparent rebuke to the United States for discussing the possibility of an anti-missile shield with South Korea, China and Russia have announced they will hold their first joint anti-missile drill.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has asked Iran to help convince North Korea to cooperate with U.N. Security Council resolutions for nuclear disarmament.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani publicly opposed North Korea’s nuclear program this week during a historic three-day summit between him and South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye in Tehran, Iran.
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Christian activists in South Korea say a pastor secretly working with North Korean defectors was “murdered” by Pyongyang’s state agents, demanding the Chinese government find those responsible for his death. They suspect North Korean agents crossed the border into China to commit the crime.
A new report out of North Korea claims that the government of dictator Kim Jong-un has banned weddings, funerals, major assemblies, and entering and exiting the capital, Pyongyang, as the nation prepares for the first Workers’ Party Congress in 36 years.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida left for a visit to China on Friday, in the opening bid to restore a damaged relationship between the two nations, even as the South China Sea grows increasingly tense.
North Korea officials and leaders have kept “Pleasure Squads,” with girls as young as 13 years old, to give the men sex, massages, or to sing and dance while partially clothed, according to defectors.
