BEIJING: A top ranking official Chinese official reaffirmed ties with North Korea during a meeting Saturday with the country’s leader Kim Jong Un in the capital Pyongyang, China‘s state media reported, in the highest-level talks between the allies in years. The visit by Zhao Leji, who ranks third in the ruling Communist Party hierarchy and … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gestures as he guides a training of the fire division, in North Korea on March 18, in this picture released on March 19, 2024, by the Korean Central News Agency. Photo: KCNA via Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers designed … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects as he tours munitions factories in North Korea on Jan. 8-9, 2024. File | Photo Credit: AP North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast on Jan. 14 , South Korea said. A projectile believed to be the missile has already fallen, according to the Japanese … Read more
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. File. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. has designated China, North Korea and Pakistan as “Countries of Particular Concern” for engaging in and tolerating “particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” Announcing the Religious Freedom Designations, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that advancing the freedom of religion or … Read more
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
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an impassioned plea to the women of his country to have more children and raise them as communists. During the Fifth National Conference of Mothers in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un stressed the need to reverse the declining birth rates in the country. He stated that stopping the decline … Read more
North Korea conducted a rocket launch believed to be carrying a satellite on Tuesday, South Korea and Japan said, in what would be Pyongyang’s third attempt this year to place its first spy satellite in orbit. North Korea had earlier notified Japan it planned to send up a satellite between Wednesday and Dec. 1, after … Read more
North Korea criticised the Group of Seven countries as a “remnant of the Cold War” that causes conflicts for their own interests and violates other countries’ sovereignty, its state media KCNA said on Tuesday. Jo Chol Su, director general of the Department of International Organisations at Pyongyang’s foreign ministry, condemned G7 foreign ministers for “slandering” … Read more
North Korea slammed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments on Pyongyang’s relations with Moscow. File | Photo Credit: Reuters North Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday slammed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments on Pyongyang’s relations with Moscow, saying the remarks would “only escalate the dangerous political and military tension” on the peninsula. Mr. … Read more
File photo of a North Korean flag flutters in North Korea’s village Gijungdong as seen from an South Korea’s observation post inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea. North Korea confirmed on November 3, 2023 that it’s closing some of its diplomatic missions abroad. | Photo Credit: Jeon Heon-Kyun North Korea confirmed on Friday … Read more