Korean Peace Talks

By Hyung-Jin KimThe Associated PressMon., April 27, 2020timer4 min. readSEOUL, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF—South Korea’s government has dismissed rumours that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in fragile condition, as speculation about his health intensifies amid the North’s silence on his whereabouts.There are concerns, particularly in Seoul and Washington, about…

27 April 2020Author: Lauren Richardson, ANUNorth Korea’s nuclear weapons program remains one of the key challenges to regional security in Asia. Dealing with this predicament has been the major foreign policy focus of South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s administration since its inauguration in 2017. Initially he conducted crisis diplomacy aimed…

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The US Air Force (USAF) sent a supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber on a 30-hour trip from South Dakota to Japan earlier this week to drill just off the coast of the city where it’s believed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is recovering from surgery.The Long Haul The US Air…

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North Korea is a famously hard country to understand from the outside. The satellite image of a dark North Korea surrounded by its well-lit neighbors, South Korea and China, captures the darkness that swallows up information there. Even those of us who have studied North Korea extensively have, if we’re…

Key point: The PLA was ruthless and the many fights over small patches of land disheartening. Here's what stalemate during the Korean War looked like. The tennis-shoed soldiers emerged from the darkness on July 6, 1953, like a “moving carpet of yelling, howling men whistles and bugles blowing, their officers screaming,…

North Korea's state-run media has acknowledged the country was experiencing difficulties, lauding the direction of supreme leader Kim Jong Un but staying silent on his public absence amid rumors regarding his health.Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the ruling Korean Workers' Party Central Committee, published an article Wednesday saying that the…

Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23 The rash of stories claiming North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is on his deathbed – all sourced to a South Korean…

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