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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…

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR AP 9 Sep, 2022 03:33 AM4 mins to read North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting on disaster prevention work in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo / AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will never abandon the…

Five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman is planning to visit Russia to help seek the release of Brittney Griner, the women’s basketball player who has been jailed for nine years on drug charges.  Former Chicago Bulls star Rodman told NBC News that he has “got permission to go to Russia to…

Here’s a Hall of Fame-worthy bad idea: Former NBA player Dennis Rodman says he’s going to Russia to try to secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner. "I got permission to go to Russia to help that girl," Rodman told NBC News’s Jonathan Allen. "I'm trying to go this…

Trending Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un have been photographed on different occasions but how does the basketball player know the leader of North Korea? On August 21, Dennis revealed he will be taking matters into his own hands and heading to Russia to release Brittney Griner. The basketball player…

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said her country will never accept South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s “foolish” offer of economic benefits in exchange for denuclearization steps, accusing Seoul of recycling proposals Pyongyang already rejected. In a commentary published by state media Friday, Kim Yo Jong…