Experts say North Korea’s reluctance to admit major outbreaks of disease and its extreme sensitivity to any potential threat to Kim Jong Un’s authoritarian rule means that Pyongyang is likely handling …
North Korea News: Government Denies Kim Jong Un Sent Trump A ‘Nice Note,’ Refuting White House Claim
I received a nice note from him recently. It was a nice note. I think we’re doing fine,” Trump told reporters Saturday, referring North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
UN Experts Want to Blacklist 14 Ships Over North Korea Sanctions
The UN Security Council has imposed increasingly tough sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the country’s official name, including banning most of its exports and severely …
Amid lockdown binge watching, U.S. viewers savor story that puts a human face on North Korea
A South Korean heiress-slash-business executive crash lands in North Korea after her paraglider is caught in typhoon, and ends up falling out of a tree, straight into the arms of a strait-laced and …
North Korea is advancing its nuclear program and increasing illicit trade, new UN report says
Although North Korea has dodged sanctions for many years, the report says, the government of Kim Jong Un has “continued to flout Security Council resolutions through illicit maritime exports of …
Photos capture North Korea ships’ sanctions busting in Chinese waters: U.N. report
That appears to be a lax enforcement by China of U.N. sanctions aimed at curbing Pyongyang’s nuclear program under which countries are required to inspect cargo destined to or coming from North Korea …
Highest Ranking North Korean Defector Wins Seat in South Korea Election, Says Pyongyang Must Consider ‘New Way’
Thae Yong Ho abandoned his post as deputy ambassador in London after becoming aware of the “gruesome realities” of life in the North.
Ex-North Korean diplomat becomes first defector elected to South Korea’s Parliament
Thae Yong Ho served as deputy head of the North Korean embassy in London from 2006, before defecting to South Korea with his family in 2016.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un missing at ‘Day of the Sun’ honors as nation insists no coronavirus cases
Senior officials in North Korea paid tribute to the remote kingdom’s founder Kim Il Sung on Wednesday but it was the apparent absence of current dictator Kim Jong Un that’s raising eyebrows if …
Ex-North Korean diplomat becomes first defector elected into South Korea’s parliament
Thae Yong Ho served as deputy head of the North Korean embassy in London from 2006, before defecting to South Korea with his family in 2016.