Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claimed that her country’s military had detonated explosives simulating the sound of gunfire 60 times and “watched the reaction” of the South Korean forces. File | Photo Credit: AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister on January 7 denied Seoul’s claims that Pyongyang had … Read more
Kim Yo Jong vowed again Sunday, June 4, 2023, to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite as she lambasted a U.N. Security Council meeting over the North’s first, failed launch. | Photo Credit: AP The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed again on June 4 to push … Read more
By Sojin Lim When the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, called for an end to the war on the Korea peninsula recently, the initial response was a rebuff from North Korea‘s vice foreign minister. This has been the standard response from Pyongyang whenever the idea has been raised of turning the 1953 armistice between the … Read more
SEOUL—North Korea, even as it pursued denuclearization talks with the Trump administration, kept advancing its arsenal. Now the behind-the-scenes progress is in the public eye. At a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday, Pyongyang revealed a new intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who had … Read more
SEOUL—North Korea celebrated 75 years of communism with a military parade at which it unveiled an intercontinental missile that experts say is likely larger than anything else like it on Earth. The Saturday event, the country’s first military parade in two years, signaled a shift back to the more strident approach Pyongyang long took before … Read more
SEOUL—For decades, North Korea’s ruling Kims portrayed themselves as quasi-gods, incapable of error. Now, as the country faces some of its toughest challenges in years on several fronts, leader Kim Jong Un is taking a different approach. He is showing himself to be fallible—even human. With the country contending with the coronavirus pandemic, flood damage … Read more