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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for boosting the country's strategic military forces as he observed the test of a hypersonic missile https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-launches-possible-ballistic-missile-japan-says-2022-01-10, state media said on Wednesday, officially attending a missile launch for the first time in nearly two years. On Tuesday authorities in South Korea…

SEOUL —  Not long after nightfall on New Year’s Day, a short, slight man picked a spot along one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world, a quarter-mile from the nearest platoon of soldiers, and scaled a 10-foot-tall wire fence. Warning lights flashed and an alarm blared. The man…

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been in power in a decade now, long enough to reshape the country’s leadership around himself. Kim Jong Il, the father of current North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, died just over 10 years ago.  And yet amid the retrospectives of his…

Last Updated: 7th January, 2022 22:34 IST The officials in North Korea demanded handwriting samples from thousands of Pyongyang residents after graffiti surfaced abusing the country's supreme leader. Image: AP The police officials in North Korea have demanded handwriting samples from thousands of Pyongyang residents after graffiti surfaced abusing the…

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Thursday it has successfully launched a hypersonic missile as part of efforts to modernize its strategic weapons systems, days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-related difficulties. Wednesday’s launch, the North’s first known weapons test in about…

correction South Korean President Moon Jae-in is in office until May. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that he had two months left in office. SEOUL — North Korea launched what appeared to be a ballistic missile Wednesday, authorities in Seoul and Tokyo said, just days after outgoing…

People watch a television news broadcast showing file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on September 28, 2021, after North Korea fired an 'unidentified projectile' into the sea off its east coast according to the South's military. Photographer: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images * Japan…

TOKYO — In North Korea, commercial banking was once seen as the ultimate capitalist institution. But under leader Kim Jong Un, it evolved into a topic of fascination and debate as the regime’s top thinkers weighed how to adopt a robust commercial banking system of their own, new research shows.…

People lay floral tribute to commemorate the Day of the Shining Star, the birth anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong Il, at the Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang, North Korea in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 17, 2021. KCNA/via REUTERS…

SEOUL —  The chubby-cheeked 27-year-old trudged alongside his father’s hearse that snowy, overcast day 10 years ago, gazing downward and away from the gaggle of cameras trained on him. With his father’s abrupt passing, Kim Jong Un, third-generation heir to one of the world’s last communist bastions, was now in charge…