Category: North Korea

Warnings that North Korea may soon encounter its worst food shortages in decades raise three interconnected questions for the rest of the world. The first… Read More

BRACED FOR ARMAGEDDON The ‘warning’ plan is aimed at helping people prepare for doomsday if Kim Jung-un decides to follow through with his threats HAWAII… Read More

Russia is the greatest threat to the United States, not North Korea, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has said. Speaking at the Aspen… Read More

RUSSIA SANCTIONS: Congress is poised this week to force President Trump‘s hand, as well as handcuff him in the future, by passing a sweeping Russian… Read More

US military personnel are scheduled to test fire the THAAD missile defence system at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska.  It comes amid fears North… Read More

There are various opinions on whether the repatriation of defector Lim Ji Hyun, who was the subject of media attention in South Korea, was voluntary… Read More

At my Senate confirmation hearing a few years ago, I made a promise to the panel deciding my fate: never to use the phrase “there… Read More

Japan and Germany have signed an agreement on the joint development of new defense technology, the eighth such bilateral pact that Tokyo has signed with… Read More

GETTY NORTH KOREA: General Paul Selva warned a war with Kim would be ‘unlike anything seen before’ Military chiefs issued the stark warning as Americans… Read More

By Anna Fifield, SEOUL — North Koreans are becoming more independent of the ruling Kim regime, with the vast majority of households earning their living through… Read More

For about three months before her bizarre return to the country she had escaped from three years ago, home to defector- turned-TV celebrity Im Ji… Read More

By Yi Whan-woo The Ministry of National Defense will hold working-level talks with Ethiopia and Uganda beginning on Tuesday, military officials here said Monday. This… Read More

British Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon wants to boost defence with Australia amid concern over North Korea and China. Britain wants to deepen joint naval exercises… Read More

South Korea’s Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) has instructed police stations across the country to locate around 900 North Korean defectors the Ministry of Unification (MOU)… Read More

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has publicly acknowledged that North Korea has the ability to launch what he calls a “limited… Read More

  South Korea extends deadline for talks with the North By Ben McGrath24 July 2017 North Korea has yet to respond to South Korea’s offer… Read More

By David Kilgour, Author & Lawyer North Korea under three generations of a totalitarian monarchy eerily replicates China as it was under Mao Zedong. Today,… Read More

July 25 1968 — Korean Air begins flights on the Seoul-Tokyo route. 1981 — South Korea allows foreign investment in 427 industry sectors. Later, the… Read More

ASPEN, Colorado—Like escaped malware destructive beyond its creator’s wildest dreams, Russia’s campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election is now ripping through the mostly apolitical… Read More

Pyongyang, July 24 (IANS) North Korea has cancelled a beer festival aimed at attracting foreign tourists due to a severe drought. Koryo Tours, a Beijing… Read More

The day national security planners feared and anticipated arrived this month when Kim Jong Un’s regime successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile theoretically capable of… Read More

Why North Korea is rejecting talks with South Korea | Asia Times Main Latest 24-07-2017 13:21 Thousands protest over bid to curb incense burning in… Read More

South Korean soldiers lay anti-tank mines during the Korean War in August 1950. Hamhung, North Korea (AP) — In the 10 years he has been… Read More

The secretive state was previously ravaged by a widespread famine where at least 2 million people are estimated to have died between 1995 and 1999.… Read More

‘The world may be desirous of peace, but not Kim Jong-un.’‘Should we then accept the old adage that to maintain peace, we should be prepared… Read More