Kim Jong Un

In mid-September, three individuals stood trial in North Korea—two young women and the doctor who treated them—bearing the crushing weight of an entire nation's judgment. Their fate was dire: a sentence to brutal labour camps, where survival itself is uncertain. Their crime? Undergoing plastic surgery. Recently, Kim Jong Un has…

Showing now | News 02:00 A shopping mall in Thailand has installed a Mount Rushmore display using the faces of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping. The sculpture featuring the heads of the four leaders was unveiled in the atrium of Bangkok’s Seacon Square on Tuesday…

Topline North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled he is open to talks with the U.S. as he mentioned President Donald Trump by name in remarks that come just weeks after he stood alongside the presidents of China and Russia at a military parade in Beijing in what appeared to…

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said there is no reason for the country to avoid dialogue with the United States if Washington stops insisting his country give up nuclear weapons, but he will never trade away the nuclear arsenal to be free of sanctions, state media reported on…

“Whatever you make of his grotesque politics, his execrable human rights record and his lamentable physical condition, Kim Jong Un is one of the most brilliantly successful national leaders in the world,” said Richard Lloyd Parry in The Times. When he succeeded his late father as head of the hermit…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Likely in her early teens and bearing a close resemblance to her mother, the daughter of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un is increasingly viewed as his likely heir . The girl, believed to be named Kim Ju Ae, was in the spotlight again as…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed the country's "absolute status and security" at a national flag-raising and oath-taking ceremony in Pyongyang to mark the 77th anniversary of the country’s founding, state media reported Wednesday. Photo by KCNA/EPA SEOUL, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised…

Last Updated: September 06, 2025, 23:40 IST A group of Navy SEALs embarked on a difficult top-secret mission in 2019 to North Korea to plant an electronic device to monitor Kim Jong Un's communications. Rapid Read Summarized by AI. + In 2019, Navy SEALs tried to plant a spy device…

Elite United States Navy SEALs launched an audacious operation in 2019 to plant a listening device in North Korea to spy on the country’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong Un, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Friday, but the mission quickly unravelled and culminated in the deaths of multiple civilians.…

In 2019, then–U.S. President Donald Trump approved a top-secret Navy SEAL operation deep inside North Korea, according to interviews conducted by The New York Times with more than two dozen officials and military personnel familiar with the mission. All spoke under conditions of anonymity because the details remain classified. The…