North Korea says ‘prepare for war’ following fresh UN sanctions
Kim Jong-un has visited North Korean troops on the border with the South and called on them to be ready “to annihilate the enemy,” the latest broadside in an increasingly bitter war of words with Seoul...
View ArticleUS to deploy missiles in Alaska in response to North Korea threat
A week after Pyongyang threatened to launch a pre-emptive strike nuclear strike on Washington, the Pentagon said it was increasing its fleet of interceptor missiles by nearly 50 per cent. Chuck Hagel,...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Latest photos of leader Kim Jong-un watching military exercises
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View ArticleNorth Korea is running a drug ring, and Kim Jong-un is its Bond-style Mr Big
While the rest of the world watches James Bond movies for a laugh, North Korea’s communist leadership apparently take notes on how to be an evil mastermind. You might recall that in Live and Let Die,...
View ArticleChina ‘shifts position’ on North Korea
For several decades, China has been North Korea’s closest ally, largest trade partner and primary source of aid. However, Kurt Campbell, the former head of the State department in Asia, said there are...
View ArticleNorth Korea to put American Kenneth Bae on trial
The announcement focused attention back on Pyongyang after a near two-week lull in North Korea’s sabre-rattling rhetoric. Kenneth Bae (Pae Jun-ho), a 44-year-old ethnic Korean with US citizenship, was...
View ArticleNorth Korea sentences American tour guide to 15 years hard labour
Kenneth Bae (Pae Jun-ho), a 44-year-old ethnic Korean with United States citizenship, appeared on trial before the Supreme Court in Pyongyang on Tuesday, according to the North Korean state news wire....
View ArticleThree questions about North Korea
im Jong-il, former leader of North Korea and, since his death in 2011, Eternal General Secretary of the Worker’s Party of Korea, was generally considered a wily, if oppressive, old fox. When,...
View ArticleMeet North Korea’s new girl band: five girls who just wanna have...
For all his faults, Kim Jong-Un is a man who knows how to have a good time. When not building ski resorts or sexting wife #2 on his smartphone, he’s trying to raise the people’s spirits with disco...
View ArticleN. Korean camp survivor urges world’s attention
BRUSSELS (JTA) — When guards dragged Shin Dong-hyuk from his North Korean cell in 1995, he was pretty sure the end was near. Dong-hyuk, then just 13, was born in the prison known as Camp 14, not far...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Nuclear Deterrence
“Military critics” are already anticipating how to disembowel critical elements of the U.S. military — especially its aging nuclear deterrent — when the defense budget will be unveiled by the...
View ArticleMiddle East Strategic Outlook, February
The announcement by the IAEA that Iran has fulfilled its obligations according to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has triggered “Implementation Day” and the removal of the...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Nuclear Deterrence
North Korea used both the Agreed Framework and the NPT as camouflage to cheat and proceed with its covert nuclear weapons program. Nuclear weapons are apparently an integral part of North Korea’s...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Nuclear Missile Threat: Very Bad News
The mainstream media and their stable of “experts” consistently underestimate North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapon capabilities. The gap between how the media report on the North Korean nuclear...
View ArticleThe Reluctant Memoirist
It was in Miami, last December, while sitting on a panel at an international book fair, that I tried to piece together the chain of events that had brought me to a place I knew I did not belong. I...
View ArticleLooking at the North Korean Problem From a Chinese Border City
The symbiotic relationship between Chinese and North Korean traders in Dandong reflects the complex issues at stake The spindly legs of half-a-dozen dried frogs are tied together in a knot. Sharing the...
View ArticleNorth Korea Tests Most Powerful Nuke Yet, Despite UN Sanctions
North Korea’s most powerful nuclear test on Thursday night was accompanied by an announcement that they now now have the ability to mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile. The ten megaton...
View ArticleThe Two Clinton Nuclear Bombs
The two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan were known as “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” The world today has two new nuclear bombs. One is named “Fat Bill.” The other is named “Little Hillary.” The “Bill...
View ArticleNorth Korea and the Delusions of International Diplomacy
Last week North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test, this one a 10-kiloton, miniaturized warhead that can be put on a missile. If North Korean claims are true, this successful test, along with the...
View ArticleNorth Korea Just Accidentally Opened Up Its Internet
North Korea accidentally opened up access to its internal internet system on Wednesday, showing that there are only 28 sites available for North Koreans to access. Normally, websites on the country’s...
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