カテゴリー: North Korea
Kim Jong-un unexpectedly vetoes the idea to redeploy troops to the border amid rising tensions between the two countriesKim Jong-un has suspended plans to increase military pressure on South Korea, in a surprise move that comes after weeks of mounting …
Regime creating piles of propaganda in retaliation for similar campaign from South amid worsening relationsNorth Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its state medi…
Kim Yeon-chul, who did not meet any officials from Pyongyang in his 14-month tenure, takes responsibility for deterioration in relations South Korea’s minister in charge of relations with North Korea has resigned to take responsibility for a rapid dete…
Pyongyang news agency steps up war of words against Seoul as Kim Jong-un’s sister says South’s president has put his neck in ‘noose of US flunkyism’North Korea has accused South Korea of behaving like a “mongrel dog” bent on confrontation in a state me…
North Korea has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with South Korea in a row over defectors’ plans to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the heavily armed border. North Korea appears to have acted on a warn…
Kim Jong-un’s sister had said office, set up to improve co-operation with South Korea, was ‘useless’North Korea has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with the South in a row over defectors’ plans to send anti-Pyongyang propagan…
Pyongyang says since summit two years ago US has appeared friendly but has instead sought regime changeNorth Korea sees no future benefit in maintaining a relationship between its leader, Kim Jong-Un, and Donald Trump, the country’s state media has sai…
Pyongyang has said it will make Seoul ‘suffer’ during worsening spat over anti-North Korean leaflets sent from South North Korea says it will sever hotlines with South Korea as the first step toward shutting down all means of contact with Seoul, state …
North Korean leader’s sister says continued air drops by defectors could jeopardise peacekeeping agreementKim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned South Korea to stop propaganda leaflets coming over the borde…
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Leader makes first appearance in several weeks to talk about ‘considerably increasing the firepower’ of the military, state media reportsNorth Korea discussed new policies for increasing its “nuclear war deterrence” during a military meeting presided o…
Thae Yong-ho and Ji Seong-ho both said in South Korea that leader was gravely ill or deadA former senior North Korean diplomat has apologised after saying Kim Jong-un was probably so ill he could not stand, days before he emerged on state media smoking…
North and South Korea exchanged gunfire over the demilitarised zone between the two countries. South Korea confirmed it fired towards the North after it discovered four bullets in the wall of a guard post. The shots come after North Korean leader Kim J…
Seoul says military responded with shots after North Korean soldiers fired towards the SouthNorth and South Korea exchanged gunfire over the demilitarised zone between the two nations, South Korean military officials have said.The exchange began when N…
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has appeared in public for the first time in almost three weeks, according to state media, following speculation that he had been seriously ill following heart surgery. The authenticity of the images…