North Koreans will be given three months’ hard labour for not wearing Covid-19 facemasks under tough new rules Students have been recruited to carry out ‘face mask patrols’ amid crackdown Those not wearing a face mask will be forced to carry out 3 months of labour North Korea has not officially recorded any cases of … Read more
North Korea warns Britain will be ‘made to pay the price’ for putting two of its state ministries on sanctions list A North Korean official said they ‘strongly condemn and reject the UK’s daring to impose sanctions’ Dominic Raab announced sanctions against those accused of human rights abuses Sanctions are on four nations: Russia, Saudi … Read more
Cyber criminals with ties to North Korea are stealing US shoppers’ information by hacking into the checkout carts of dozens of large retailers including Claire’s Security experts have uncovered a skimming attack on large US retailers The team is pointing to the group Hidden Cobra, which has ties to North Korea The hackers have been … Read more
Photographs of the Korean War have been brought back to life in color seventy years on from its outbreak, which began on June 25, 1950. North Korea invaded their southern neighbors, five years after the end of World War II, when Korea was liberated by the United States and the Soviet Union from imperial Japanese … Read more
North Korea is planning to send millions of propaganda leaflets to the South by an aerial armada of balloons. Pyongyang has previously issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of Seoul over anti-North leaflets which defectors based in the South send across the border – usually attached to balloons or floated in bottles. In retaliation to … Read more
North Korea criticised Donald Trump in a stinging denunciation of the United States on Friday, the second anniversary of a landmark summit in Singapore where the US president shook hands with leader Kim Jong Un. It was the latest in a series of vitriolic statements from Pyongyang aimed at both Washington and Seoul, and came … Read more
Kim Jong Un’s feeling all white! North Korean leader ditches his usual dull attire as he observes social distancing during meeting, weeks after he was rumoured to be seriously ill Kim Jong Un appeared in high spirits for a meeting of the 13th Political Bureau The North Korean leader ditched his usual attire in favour of … Read more
Kim Jong Un appears in public for first time in more than three weeks as he hosts a military meeting to discuss boosting North Korea’s nuclear capabilities North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un has not appeared in public since May 1 Kim held a meeting to discuss how the nation can improve its nuclear arsenal The … Read more
South Korean intelligence has said there is no sign Kim Jong Un underwent a heart operation, following rumours that he was ‘gravely ill’ or even dead following surgery. Speaking to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, the head of South Korea’s intelligence agency, Suh Hoon said there was nothing to indicate the rumours about Kim’s ill-health were true. … Read more
A former senior North Korean diplomat has apologised for saying Kim Jong-un was likely so ill ‘he cannot stand up by himself or walk properly’ just three days before the dictator was seen smoking a cigarette at a public event. North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to Britain, Thae Yong Ho, told CNN Kim’s ‘abnormal’ absence … Read more