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Kim Jong Un signaled he may end a four-year-old freeze on major weapons tests, threatening to ratchet up tensions with the U.S. and force North Korea’s nuclear program back onto the Biden administration’s agenda. Kim ordered ruling party leaders Wednesday to “promptly examine the issue of restarting all temporarily suspended…

Kim Jong Un regime needs to prepare for long-term confrontation with U.S., says Politburo, ruling Workers’ Party’s top decision-making body Read More

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening the country’s strategic military forces as he observed the test of a hypersonic missile, state media said on Wednesday, officially attending a missile launch for the first time in nearly two years. On Tuesday authorities in South…

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast SEOUL—North Korea is placing as much emphasis on producing manure as it is on firing missiles, and it doesn’t matter whether it comes from people or animals. While test-firing two missiles in less than a week, North Korea has been waging “the battle for…

By HYONSHEE SHIN, JOSH SMITH, Reuters Published January 12, 2022 6:02am SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean state media said on Wednesday that the country has conducted a successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media reported, with leader Kim Jong Un attending the launch for the first time in…

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…