カテゴリー: North Korea
A song aired on North Korean state television shows jubilant citizens hailing Kim Jong-un as their ‘friendly father’, with people of different ages and backgrounds singing Kim’s praises. The song was released after the leader inaugurated a new resident…
Top-ranking Chinese official Zhao Leji met Kim Jong-un during three-day visit to PyongyangA top ranking Chinese official reaffirmed ties with North Korea during a meeting in Pyongyang on Saturday with the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, China’s state me…
Kim Jong-un’s selected few are ‘100% satisfied’ but find a country steeped in hopelessness under sanctionsGliding down pristine, untouched mountain runs, Olga Shpalok said she was “getting 100% satisfaction”.After a full day of skiing, the Russian desi…
Ukraine’s foreign minister calls veto ‘guilty plea’ amid claims Pyongyang is aiding Moscow’s war against KyivRussia has blocked the renewal of a UN panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports o…
His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something about Alan Titchmarsh that North Korea’s censors can’t quite forgive – his jeans. The green-fingered br…
Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something abou…
Last-minute decision on Tuesday’s match leaves football bodies searching for alternative venueNorth Korea has abruptly cancelled its 2026 World Cup qualifying match with Japan next week, leaving organisers frantically searching for an alternative venu…
AFP photographer Pedro Pardo gained access to a remote stretch of frontier in China’s north-east Jilin province. Between rusting factories and peeling housing blocks were glimpses of daily life in North Korea Continue reading…
Crunch fixture taps into a complicated underlying political history, with 150,000 North Koreans living in JapanA place at the next football World Cup is not all that is at stake when Japan and North Korea meet on Thursday for the first of two qualifyin…
The supreme leader of North Korea has been seen in footage aired by the state-run broadcaster KRT showing firing drills by artillery units in the country’s western regions. Kim Jong-un is seen walking near a number of rocket launchers, which are later …
Changes in orbit of Malligyong-1 suggest Pyongyang is successfully maneuvering the satelliteNorth Korea’s first spy satellite is “alive”, space experts have said, after detecting changes in its orbit that suggested Pyongyang was successfully controllin…
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters in Washington he ‘didn’t know there was such a thing as a Russian luxury car’A US spokesperson has mocked president Vladimir Putin’s gift of a Russian car to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a…
Kremlin says gift was chosen as Kim liked the car when Putin showed it to him in Russia last yearVladimir Putin gave Kim Jong-un a luxury Russian Aurus limousine as a gift because the North Korean leader liked the car when the Russian president showed …
Report is said to show that attacks on cryptocurrency-related companies helped development of dictatorship’s weapons programmeUN sanctions monitors are investigating dozens of suspected cyber-attacks by North Korea that raked in $3bn to help it further…
Instead of acting as a responsible superpower, China is putting millions of lives at risk in the region and beyondMilitary coups and dictatorships rarely come to any good. But has any army takeover in recent times led to more utterly disastrous consequ…