China’s effort to expand its growing influence represents one of the largest threats to the United States, according to a major annual intelligence report released Tuesday, which also warned of the broad national security challenges posed by Moscow and Beijing. The report does not predict a military confrontation with either Russia or China, but it … Read more
North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea Thursday, in what would be its first substantive provocation to the new US administration of Joe Biden. The nuclear-armed North has a long history of using weapons tests as provocations, in a carefully calibrated process to forward its objectives. Donald Trump‘s first year in office … Read more
North Korea accused the new US administration of adopting “lunatic theory” Thursday, ruling out any engagement with Washington unless it changed course, as President Joe Biden‘s top envoys held talks in Seoul. The comments from Pyongyang‘s first vice foreign minister Choe Son Hui came with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd … Read more
Hackers in Russia and North Korea have targeted seven “prominent” firms working on Covid vaccine and treatment research, according to Microsoft. The cyberattacks were conducted in recent months and targeted “leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers” in the US, Canada, France, India, and South Korea, according to a Friday blog post by the firm, which … Read more
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued a rare apology Friday over what he described as the “unexpected and disgraceful” killing of a South Korean at sea, Seoul‘s presidential office said. Apologies from the North — let alone attributed to Kim personally — are extremely unusual, and the message comes with inter-Korean ties in … Read more
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong near the border with South Korea under total lockdown over coronavirus concerns and declared a state of emergency to contain a potential outbreak, the North’s state media reported Sunday. The step was taken Friday afternoon after a person was found with suspected COVID-19 … Read more