Kim Jong Un

Synopsis North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un was missing from the crucial Politburo meeting on Sunday fuelling speculations over his health.AgenciesIt has been more than a month since Kim Jong Un was seen in public which has triggered concerns over his health, yet again. Health speculations over Kim’s health are…

Rodney Gorham, who suffers from ALS, sends texts with a Synchron implant and eye-tracking software. (Monica Rodman/The Post) Though their approaches vary, innovative companies like Paradromics and Synchron are trying to hack the brain’s instructions to the body and transmit them directly to an electronic device — enabling, for example, a…

A suspected resurgence of COVID-19 has sent North Korea's capital back into lockdown, five months after Kim Jong Un's regime declared the virus had been eradicated within its borders. The Russian embassy in Pyongyang was among other diplomatic missions to be notified of the city's five-day "special anti-epidemic period" on…

SEOUL: North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament has passed a budget that keeps defense spending high despite economic troubles as leader Kim Jong Un pushes for an aggressive expansion of his nuclear arsenal amid stalled diplomacy. State media reports indicated that Kim didn't attend the Supreme People's Assembly's two-day session that ended…

January 01, 2023 - 11:15PM REUTERS North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles and a larger nuclear arsenal to counter U.S.-led threats, state media said on Sunday, amid flaring tension between the rival Koreas. Mia Womersley reports. Read More

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has purged a former foreign minister who played an instrumental role in his summits with former U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018-19, South Korean lawmakers said on Thursday, citing intelligence officials. Ri Yong Ho has remained out of…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to increase production of the country’s nuclear warheads “exponentially.”...Read More

Last month, North Korea claimed to have performed key tests needed for the development of a new strategic weapon, a likely reference to a solid-fueled ICBM, and a spy satellite. Kim’s identification of South Korea as an enemy and the mentioning of hostile U.S. and South Korean policies is “a…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to increase his nuclear arsenal in the new year to stifle US and South Korean hostile acts, in a policy-setting address where he left almost no opening for a return to long-stalled disarmament talks. In a speech that came at the end of…

/ Asia / Pacific Issued on: 28/12/2022 - 10:41 In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a plenary meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea at the party headquarters in Pyongyang, December 27, 2022. © Korean Central News Agency, AP…