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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly sent medicines "prepared by his family" to the country's southwest as it battles an outbreak of an "unidentified gastrointestinal disease". It is believed at least 800 families are suffering from what North Korea has only called an "acute enteric epidemic" in the…

As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, and China continues to escalate its aggressive rhetoric and actions against Taiwan, North Korea has reemerged to join the anti-Western pressure and diversion campaign. Iran likely is preparing for more trouble-making. U.S. and international observers are raising the likelihood that North Korean leader…

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. STATE OF STRESS This photo released by the state-run Korean Central New Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting with officials of his Workers’ Party of Korea’s Central Committee in Pyongyang on Sunday, June 12, 2022. KCNA/KOREA…

WASHINGTON: Leader of the free world sounds like a superhero character, but the Joe Biden heading this week to twin European summits is in reality a politically fragile president tasked, somehow, with resolving an unenviable string of diplomatic problems. Biden arrives Saturday in Germany for the G7 summit of major…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his top deputies have pushed for a crackdown on officials who abuse their power and commit other “unsound and non-revolutionary acts,” state media reported Monday, as Kim seeks greater internal unity to overcome a COVID-19 outbreak and economic…

Published June 12, 2022 11:08pm SEOUL — North Korea on Sunday fired multiple artillery shots between 8:07 a.m. and 11:03 a.m. local time, South Korea's military said, in another show of force a day after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to boost the reclusive nation's military power. The Joint Chiefs of…

PLENTY ON HIS PLATE This photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Saturday, June 11, 2022, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaking during a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee held from Wednesday to Friday. KCNA/KOREA NEWS SERVICE PHOTO VIA AP Read…

Published June 11, 2022 5:55am SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea appointed a key nuclear negotiator, Choe Son Hui, as its new foreign minister, state media said on Saturday, as the country concluded a ruling party meeting chaired by leader Kim Jong Un. Kim presented goals to boost the country's…

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has convened a political conference where he’s expected to review state affairs, including a COVID-19 outbreak, and possibly address relations with Washington and Seoul amid his revived nuclear brinkmanship. The plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee began…

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