Is North Korea about to fire another missile? Kim Jong UN’s submarine puts to sea amid fears he is developing nuclear missile that can be launched at the US from underwater A US think tank said the satellite images are ‘suggestive, but not conclusive’ The images show several vessels within a secure boat basin off … Read more
A North Korean defector who fled the country aged 13 has described the horror of seeing bodies in the streets and eating insects to survive because of mass starvation in the secretive state. Yeonmi Park said cold, darkness and starvation were part of everyday life in the pariah kingdom where she grew up and blamed … Read more
North Korea’s nuclear activity is a ‘cause for serious concern’ with some facilities continuing to operate, UN watchdog warns UN fears Pyongyang is breaching international law with nuclear operations International Atomic Energy Agency voices warning in report issued this week Concerns raised over Yongbyon nuclear site in secretive country US warns sellers not to supply … Read more
Kim Jong-un inspected typhoon damage with a cob of corn in his hand on Thursday – scotching the latest rumours that he is gravely ill or dead. North Korea’s supreme leader gave an upbeat verdict on the storm damage as he examined rice paddies and bean crops in the coastal province where Typhoon Bavi made … Read more
North Korea has issued new pictures of leader Kim Jong-Un just days after a South Korean diplomat claimed he was in a coma. The dictator was shown at an enlarged meeting of the politburo of the Workers Party, the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency said. He called for prevention efforts against the coronavirus and a … Read more
Kim Jong-Un ‘is in a coma and his sister is set to take control’ of North Korea, claims South Korean diplomat South Korean diplomat has claimed dictator Kim Jong Un is in a comatose state ‘I assess him to be in a coma, but his life has not ended,’ Chang Song-min said He added that … Read more
North Koreans desperate to meet scrap metal quotas are plundering in the wreckage of the liaison office with the South that was blown up on Kim Jong-un’s orders. Residents of Kaesong are risking arrest by scavenging in the ruins of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office which was set up in a spirit of unity in 2018 … Read more
North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the country’s response to a suspected case reinforces doubt about its longstanding claim to be virus-free. But amid the outside skepticism and a stream of North Korean propaganda glorifying its … Read more
North Korea is seizing on the return of a defector from the South to point the finger at Seoul for the arrival of coronavirus in the country after months of denying it had any cases, analysts said Monday. Pyongyang imposed a lockdown on the border city of Kaesong, saying it had found a suspected COVID-19 … Read more
Revealed: North Korean ghost ships that wash up in Japan are aging fishing vessels pushed out of their own waters by Chinese ‘dark’ fishing fleet Global Fishing Watch used satellite technologies to analyse the marine traffic Chinese ships fishing illegally near North Korea pushed boats to Japan’s waters In 2017 more than 100 boats landed … Read more