カテゴリー: North Korea
Washington’s top intelligence officer warns that Pyongyang is not intending to ‘find a way out’ of weapons developmentThe top US intelligence officer for North Korea has warned the country sees diplomacy only as a means to advance its nuclear weapons d…
Pyongyang hosted a military parade to celebrate the Workers’ party’s 8th Congress where Kim Jong-un took the new title of ‘general secretary’. Images from the parade, released by the official North Korean news agency KCNA, showed submarine-launched mis…
Kim Jong-un smiles and waves at huge parade in Kim Il-sung Square, Pyongyang, designed to show military progressNorth Korea has included a developmental ballistic missile designed for launch from submarines in the military hardware put on show at a par…
Advocacy group Open Doors says hardline regimes across world exploit pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePersecution of Christians around the world has increased during the Covid pandemic, with followers being refused ai…
Analysis: Congress gathering ends with Kim taking symbolic post of general secretary and a warning the US needs a fresh strategyA rare meeting of North Korea’s ruling party has ended with a symbolically important new title for the country’s leader, Kim…
North Korea should ‘further advance nuclear technology’ and develop more flexible attack capability, leader tells party congressNorth Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has called the United States his nuclear-armed nation’s “biggest enemy” and revealed that…
Leader kicks off his second Workers’ party congress by admitting strategy fell short in ‘almost every sector’North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his five-year economic plan has failed to meet its goals in “almost every sector” as he kicked off the…
Controversial move angers opposition lawmakers who support sending leaflets criticising the Pyongyang regime South Korea’s parliament has approved contentious legislation criminalizing the flying of propaganda leaflets by balloon toward North Korea, d…
Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korea’s leader, accuses Seoul of seeking to damage political ties by questioning claim to not have any coronavirus casesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageKim Jong-un’s influential sister has launch…
South Korean intelligence foiled the attempt by secretive regime to infiltrate pharmaceutical companies working on treatmentsSouth Korea’s intelligence agency has foiled attempts by North Korean hackers to disrupt attempts to develop a Covid-19 vaccine…
South Korean intelligence foiled the attempt by secretive regime to infiltrate pharmaceutical companies working on treatmentsSouth Korea’s intelligence agency has foiled attempts by North Korean hackers to disrupt attempts to develop a Covid-19 vaccine…
Agencies point finger at state-sponsored hackers from China, Russia, Iran and North KoreaWho is targeting vaccine developers?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageState-sponsored hackers from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea ar…
Measure comes despite more than 43% of the country’s male population being smokers, including leader Kim Jong-unNorth Korea’s supreme people’s assembly has introduced smoking bans in some public places to provide citizens with “hygienic living environm…
North Korean man was seen crossing barbed wire before being picked up in the demilitarised zone South Korea has detained a North Korean man who it believed was trying to defect by crossing the heavily armed land border separating the two countries.The …
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, became emotional during a speech at a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ party. Kim removed his glasses and wiped away tears in an indication, analysts say, of mount…