Two-way trade between North Korea and its biggest partner, China, fell 80.7% in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to estimates from Seoul’s Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency.
Trump offered Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One following Vietnam summit, source says
Then-President Donald Trump in 2019 offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One following their Vietnam summit, a former senior administration official who was on the trip …
Influencer Helped North Koreans Launder Money In US; Steal $1.3B, Court Documents Show
Nigerian influencer Ray Hushpuppi allegedly conspired with three North Korean hackers to steal $1.3 billion from U.S. banks and companies …
North Korea’s economy is ravaged by sanctions and pandemic isolation. Kim is lashing out.
Kim Jong Un is angry, and he’s lashing out. North Korea’s last economic plan failed “tremendously,” he complained. And his inner circle lacked an “innovative viewpoint and clear tactics” in drawing up …
Trump offered North Korea’s Kim a ride home on Air Force One: report
Former President Trump made an unprecedented offer to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un after the pair met in 2019 for their second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam: a ride home on Air Force One, which Kim declined, …
South Korea trapped in dilemma over human rights issues
The Moon Jae-in administration has been in hot water over its ignoring of North Korean human rights abuses in order not to “provoke” Pyongyang and “promote” inter-Korean reconciliation. This was …
North Korea’s nukes aren’t going anywhere, and the US needs to get over it
Opinion: Biden’s approach to North Korea is a departure from Trump, but the continued insistence on denuclearization isn’t going to achieve anything.
How Hushpuppi laundered funds for North Korean hackers from bank – US govt
The United States Government has accused Instagram influencer, Ramon Abbas, alias Hushpuppi who wowed the internet with pictures of his clothes, cars, …
Is South Korea on Verge of a Demographics Crisis?
Fact: South Korea now has the lowest birth rate among OECD countries. When it comes to threats, there is none bigger than South Korea’s nuclear-armed neighbor North Korea. But there is also a subtler …
U.S. Calls North Korean Hackers ‘World’s Leading Bank Robbers’
North Korea was accused of being behind the 2014 hack of an internal computer network of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., an audacious attack that exposed Hollywood secrets and destroyed company data …