North Korea has bizarrely told people in the country that Covid patients had touched “strange things coming from the wind” as it tried to blame the south for the virus
KCNA said senior officials visiting Samjiyon city observed fireworks and a music concert. It’s rare for North Korea to hold a high-profile state event in the city at the foot of Mount Paektu, the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula which is the heart of North Korea’s foundation myth revolving around the Kim family. A … Read more
HONOLULU — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts were meeting Saturday in Hawaii to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang began the year with a series of missile tests. Blinken gathered in Honolulu with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korean Foreign Minister … Read more
Kim Jong-un, leader of hermit nation North Korea, has suggested he could order new nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches for the first time since 2017 A new submarine-launched ballistic missile is tested by North Korea ( Image: via REUTERS) North Korea poses a “direct and serious threat” with its deadly nuclear-capable missiles … Read more
Kim Jong-un, leader of North Korea, has said the hermit nation is one of only a handful of countries in the world to field nuclear weapons and advanced missiles and it is capable of “shaking the world” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un smiling while observing an underwater test-fire of a submarine-launched ballistic missile ( Image: … Read more
UN experts say North Korea continues to steal hundreds of millions of pounds from financial institutions and cryptocurrency firms, with the dictatorship using the illicit money to fund its nuclear and missile programs. The panel of experts said that, according to an unnamed government, North Korean “cyber-actors stole more than 50 million dollars (£37 million) … Read more
North Korea has continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programs including its capability to produce nuclear fissile materials in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, UN experts said in a new report. The panel of experts said in the executive summary of the report obtained Saturday night by The Associated Press that … Read more
A confidential UN report says that North Korea’s cyberattacks, “particularly on cryptocurrency assets, remain an important revenue source” for the government of Kim Jong Un. The new report, submitted to the UN sanctions committee and obtained in part by CBS News, is an annual accounting by independent monitors known as the “1718” Committee — named … Read more
“For North Korea, the Beijing Olympics is still someone else’s celebration, and what’s important now is promoting their own interests,” said Nam Sung-wook, a professor at Korea University in South Korea. “North Korea thinks it no longer needs to promote a peaceful image through the Olympics, as the United States will only notice them if … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife attended a Lunar New Year’s Day concert in Pyongyang where he received thunderous cheers from audience members and artists who praised him for heralding a “new era” of national power, state media reported. The North’s official media has been highlighting Kim’s authoritarian leadership following a spree … Read more
