North Korea will no longer need to fight wars because the nation has a nuclear arsenal that guarantees safety, Kim Jong Un said according to North Korean state media. “With our reliable and effective self-defensive nuclear deterrent, there will be no more war on this earth, and our country’s safety and future will be secured […]
South Korea has said that the man suspected of being North Korea’s first confirmed Covid-19 patient did not have the virus. The man apparently defected from North to South three years ago, before seemingly deciding to return last week. South Korean military said the 24-year-old man reached the North from Ganghwa Island, near the border. […]
North Korea has declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person who illegally crossed over from South Korea is suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus. If confirmed this would be the first case acknowledged by North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting […]
North Korea issued a statement to state that it has no intention of sitting down with the United States and told South Korea to “stop meddling”. On Tuesday, Kwon Jong Gun, director general for U.S. affairs at North Korea’s foreign ministry, accused South Korea of misinterpreting the North Korean statement dismissing the rumour of another […]
North Korea is suspending military action plans against South Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday, as a report from Seoul suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers reinstalled at the fortified border. Political tensions between the rival Koreas had been rising over Pyongyang’s objections to plans by defector-led groups in the […]
Former US national security advisor John Bolton said on Sunday he thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “gets a huge laugh” over US counterpart Donald Trump’s perception of their relationship. Bolton speaking with ABC News for his first interview ahead of the Tuesday release of his tell-all book, which contains many damning allegations against […]
North Korea pledged to push ahead with its campaign to send propaganda leaflets into South Korea, saying it is not bound to any inter-Korean agreements, state media said on Sunday. Tension has been rising after North Korea blew up a joint liaison office and threatened military action over defectors in the South sending anti-North leaflets […]
A new report claims that North Korea has been covertly stashing nuclear warheads during new tensions with South Korea. The rogue state is thought to have produced an additional ten warheads at a secret uranium enrichment facility in Kangson, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Pyongyang has refused to officialise the site in […]
A video of Narendra Modi’s party men burning effigies of Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un from West Bengal’s Asansol has gone viral. This happened because BJP workers confused Kim Jong Un with China President Xi Jinping. Angry with China, the workers hit the streets to made their fury known. They burnt effigies […]
A North Korean defector-led group on Thursday prepared hundreds of plastic bottles stuffed with rice which they plan to float into North Korea, despite a legal challenge from South Korean authorities and threats from Pyongyang. Citing South Korea’s failure to stop the defectors, North Korea this week blew up the joint liaison office on its […]
North Korea blew up an office set up to foster better ties with South Korea on Tuesday in a “terrific explosion” after it threatened to take action if North Korean defectors went ahead with a campaign to send propaganda leaflets into the North. North Korea’s KCNA state news agency said the liaison office in the […]
The sister of North Korea’s leader has warned of retaliatory measures against South Korea that could involve the military, in the latest escalation of tensions over defectors from the North who have been sending back propaganda and food. Kim Yo Jong, who serves unofficially as one of Kim Jong Un’s top aides, issued the warning […]
