Kim Jong Un

North Korea's recent missile tests involved "tactical nuclear" drills to simulate hitting the South, and were overseen by leader Kim Jong Un.The country revised its nuclear laws last month to allow pre-emptive strikes, with Kim declaring North Korea an "irreversible" nuclear power.Kim made acquiring tactical nukes - smaller, lighter weapons…

/ Asia / Pacific Issued on: 10/10/2022 - 01:14 01:31 North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un oversees a missile launch at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in this photo released on October 9, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). © KCNA via Reuters North Korean leader…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to strengthen his country's nuclear operations going forward. In the aftermath of more missile tests this week, Mr Kim said there is no need to have dialogue with North Korea's adversaries. An intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) sent over Japan on Tuesday was…

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a birthday greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, congratulating him for "crushing the challenges and threats of the United States", the latest sign of deepening ties between the two pariah states. As Russia's isolation over its war in Ukraine…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Thursday after the United States redeployed an aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula in response to Pyongyang’s previous launch of a nuclear-capable missile over Japan. The latest missile launches suggest North Korean leader Kim…

Leaving Talking Points Memo Read More

SEOUL, South Korea – Life inside Kim Jong Un’s totalitarian regime is drastically different from the facade of strength and power the hermit kingdom projects to the outside world.  Nobody knows that contrast quite like the North Korean defectors who have lived through and escaped from the most dangerous and…

Multiple rocket-launcher vehicles were on display during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, earlier this year.Photo: KCNA/via REUTERSSept. 22, 2022 12:25 am ET SEOUL—North Korea denied that it is supplying Russia with weapons or ammunition, a rebuttal of an earlier U.S. claim that the Kim Jong Un regime could…

Kim Jong Un addressed the Supreme People’s Assembly on Thursday in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo: str/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesBy Dasl Yoon Sept. 9, 2022 3:50 am ET SEOUL—North Korea passed a new law allowing pre-emptive nuclear strikes as leader Kim Jong Un declared he would never abandon nuclear weapons to counter…

BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday sent a message of congratulations to Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic…