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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met in Seoul over the weekend for their second summit in two months.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s sister, top communist official Kim Yo-jong, lobbed a barrage of insults at American President Joe Biden in a screed this weekend accusing him of endangering America with his “senility” and being incapable of serving through 2024.

North Korean state media on Thursday declared that “building the space industry is an indispensable project for national development and the improvement of people’s lives.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party’s media arms ardently condemned conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday for coming to an agreement that would see the return of American nuclear submarines to the Korean peninsula, warning he had “likely” caused a “nuclear crisis.”

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Thursday, commemorating the 70th anniversary of his country’s alliance with America.

President Joe Biden and visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday signed an agreement that would increase U.S. support for South Korea’s security and give Seoul more input in responses to North Korean aggression.

Tobacco giant fined $635.2 million by the U.S. for breaking sanction rules to sell product to North Korea over a ten-year period. 

The Pentagon continued on Tuesday evening to respond to the fallout from the surfacing of dozens of documents online, allegedly featuring highly sensitive U.S. intelligence, implicating Washington in everything from on-the-ground operations in Ukraine to spying on top ally South Korea.

Japan issued an emergency alert on Thursday to residents of its northernmost island, Hokkaido, urging them to “evacuate immediately” or take shelter from a potential bombing in their respective locations in response to a missile launch from North Korea.

Saturday marks the holiest day in the North Korean Kim cult, the “Day of the Sun,” which honors the country’s founder Kim Il-sung and typically sees displays of the country’s military strength.

Satellite images published by the monitor site 38 North this weekend indicate that communist North Korea has “refurbished” the uranium enrichment facility at its Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center and is potentially expanding the operation of its nuclear reactors there.

North Korea’s state media outlets published photos on Tuesday of communist dictator Kim Jong-un alongside a weapon identified as the “Hwasan-31,” the country’s first apparent tactical nuclear warhead produced in response to Kim’s call for the country to become “flawlessly prepared to use nuclear weapons anytime and anywhere.”

North Korean state media claimed on Thursday that the belligerent Communist regime tested an undersea drone that could carry a nuclear warhead. The weapon is supposedly designed to wipe out enemy cities by sneaking close to harbors and detonating to cause a “radioactive tsunami.”

Officials in the Netherlands have been told to delete all Iranian, Russian and Chinese apps from their work phones.

North Korean state media on Monday said dictator Kim Jong-un personally oversaw drills on Saturday and Sunday that simulated his regime’s “war deterrence and nuclear counterattack capability,” meaning a nuclear attack on the United States and South Korea. The drill included the troubling launch of solid-fueled ballistic missile from a hidden underground silo.

The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, told Reuters in an interview published on Monday that he supported South Korea developing nuclear weapons in response to increased belligerence from communist North Korea, a nuclear-armed state.

North Korean state media on Friday described dictator Kim Jong-un supervising a live-fire artillery drill that simulated an attack on a South Korean airfield.

The occupied region of Tibet is less free than communist North Korea, and the Asia-Pacific region generally is among the most repressed in the world, where only five percent of people live in free countries, the international organization Freedom House revealed on Thursday.

The repressive communist regime of North Korea marked “International Women’s Day” on Wednesday by forcing women to sit through “ideological lectures for housewives” in which Workers’ Party propagandists pressured them to have more children to be used by the state as soldiers.

“I think Biden is very afraid to admit that somehow China is actually an enemy,” North Korean defector and author Yeonmi Park said.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, published an inflammatory screed on Monday referring to South Korean officials as “idiots” and “maniacs” and warning that Pyongyang is willing to turn the Pacific Ocean into “our firing range.”

North Korea conducted an “ICBM [inter-contiential ballistic missile] launching drill” Saturday, hours after South Korea announced it would hold joint exercises with the United States.

South Korea’s latest defense white paper referred to North Korea as the “enemy” for the first time in six years, citing Pyongyang’s violation of bilateral agreements, missile tests, penetration of South Korean airspace with drones, and growing stockpile of weapons-grade nuclear material.

The government of North Korea staged a citywide party in Pyongyang on Wednesday night to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the nation’s military – featuring apparent intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) believed to be able to reach the United States.

Balloon-mania spread across the world this weekend as South Korea reported an incursion by a North Korean balloon into its territory, and the Colombian military confirmed a sighting of a “balloon-like object” within its airspace.

North Korean state media on Monday denounced NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s visit to South Korea as a “prelude to confrontation and war.” During his visit, Stoltenberg urged South Korea to “step up to the specific issue of military support” for Ukraine.

Multiple news reports citing sources inside North Korea reported on Wednesday that the repressive communist government implemented a coronavirus lockdown in Pyongyang, the nation’s capital, beginning that day.

At a press briefing on Friday, White House National Security Council (NSC) communications director John Kirby accused North Korea of supplying ammunition to invading Russian forces in Ukraine.

The government of South Korea reportedly sent thousands of police officers to descend on the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a coalition of labor organizations, on Wednesday in an extensive national security raid union officials said was ongoing as of Thursday.

The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, suggested this week that his country could “possess its own nukes” in response to North Korea’s incessant, and escalating, threats against Seoul.

The scandal brewing in South Korea over last month’s invasion by North Korean drones took another turn on Thursday, as the South Korean military admitted one of the five invading drones managed to penetrate the no-fly zone around President Yoon Suk-yeol’s office in Seoul.

Leftist American President Joe Biden told reporters on Monday that his administration was not discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea in a passing comment while traveling, apparently contradicting South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol.

Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea used his party’s end-of-year meeting to make a call for “an exponential increase of the country’s nuclear arsenal” through the “mass-producing of tactical nuclear weapons,” state media revealed on Sunday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Monday he has asked the Biden administration for a move active role in managing nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, in part because the South Korean public is growing increasingly uneasy over North Korean aggression.

Venezuela’s socialist regime and North Korea pledged to deepen their bilateral relationship after diplomatic representatives of both authoritarian regimes held a meeting in Caracas on Monday to address “issues of common interest to both nations,” according to the Venezuelan foreign affairs ministry.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday criticized his military’s response to North Korean drones invading the South’s airspace. Yoon called for a new military unit specializing in drone interceptions.