カテゴリー: Kim Jong-un
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
North Korea’s leader has increased his displays of military aggression but analysts are split on whether it’s a sign of electoral interference or a war footing When a highly militarised dictatorship fires artillery shells in the direction of its neighb…
Footage shows two 16-year-olds being sentenced in front of hundreds of their peers in an amphitheatreVideo footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12…
In a speech, the North Korean leader has called for constitutional change to identify the south as ‘number one hostile state’North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has called for a change to the constitution to identify South Korea as the “number one hosti…
If confirmed it would be the first ever test of this kind of intermediate-range ballistic missile by PyongyangNorth Korea said Monday it had successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic manoeuvrable warhead, in what would be…
For every theory suggesting 10-year-old Ju-ae is next in line, there is another saying she is being used to soften her father’s image. But that changed this weekIt has been more than a year since the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was seen…
Intense speculation over future role for Kim Jong-un’s daughter, who is reportedly 10, comes as North Korea fires shells near South Korean islandsThe young daughter of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un is seen as her father’s heir apparent, South Korea’s …
Recently launched Malligyong-1 also sent ‘detailed’ pictures of US nuclear aircraft carriers, says regime, although claims are not verifiedNorth Korea has claimed its recently launched satellite has sent back “detailed” images of the White House, the P…
As Seoul claims Russia helped Pyongyang carry out spy satellite launch, North Korea warns of stronger armed forces on borderNorth Korea has warned it will deploy new weapons and stronger armed forces along its heavily armed border with South Korea, as …