North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has warned that the country’s already dire economic crisis faces additional challenges, amid reports Thursday that he has relinquished some of his power to his sister.
The government of leftist South Korean President Moon Jae-in canceled the operating licenses of two non-governmental organizations on Friday for sending leaflets with banned news and information into North Korea.
South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo on Friday quoted sources in North Korea who said the secretive Communist dictatorship is dealing with hundreds of thousands of coronavirus infections and over 500 fatalities, despite the regime’s official claims that it has never experienced a single infection.
Kim Yo-jong, sister to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, published a poorly written “press statement” Friday praising Kim’s relationship with President Donald Trump, rejecting further summits between them, and requesting DVD copies of Fourth of July celebration footage.
South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, tasked with improving relations with communist North Korea, resigned on Friday after a tumultuous week that saw Pyongyang bomb the nations’ joint liaison office into ruins.
Tensions between North and South Korea escalated further on Wednesday as Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, launched a torrent of insults at leftist South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
North Korea’s army announced on Wednesday it would begin repopulating areas where it had agreed to establish demilitarized cooperation zones with South Korea, its latest provocation since blowing up the North-South joint liaison office on Tuesday.
South Korea confirmed – with dramatic video – that the repressive regime in North Korea bombed the two countries’ joint liaison office on Tuesday, reducing it to rubble.
North Korea’s communist regime spent much of the weekend publishing vitriol against the South in its state media arms, declaring on Monday that unspecified “retaliatory measures” were on the way for Seoul. The measures will be “entrusted to our army,” Pyongyang asserted.
North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs railed against United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gutérres on Thursday for issuing a mild statement calling Pyongyang cutting off communications with South Korea regrettable, suggesting that Gutérres was pretending to be “drunk.”
North Korea announced on Tuesday that it would “completely cut off” a phone line established with the South in 2018, meant to maintain regular communication across their border, in response to “the disgusting riff-raff” of the South sending humanitarian aid and information.
North Korea’s ruling party issued a statement Thursday condemning U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for issuing statements in defense of the human rights of people in China and expressed support for China’s ongoing crackdown on human rights in Hong Kong.
Speculation about the status of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was further fueled on Wednesday by the publication of satellite photos that showed luxury boats flitting around Kim’s coastal villa, where his personal train has been parked for days.
South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo said on Friday that North Korea is stepping up readiness activities for its air and artillery units, for no apparent reason.
Ever since the 1948 founding of North Korea by Kim Il-sung, three things have been a certainty: regime brutality, the establishment of the Kim family’s rule, and the smooth transition of power from one generation to the next.
Russian chefs will indulge a request from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to enjoy the finest in local Russian cuisine during a summit between Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin in eastern Vladivostok this week, the governor of the city’s Primorsky region said on Wednesday.
South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Tuesday that Kim Yo-jong, the head of North Korea’s Propaganda and Agitation Department and sister to dictator Kim Jong-un, arrived in Russia on Monday in anticipation of her brother’s scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
OXON HILL, Maryland — CPAC attendees raucously cheered Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday when he harshly rebuked positive media coverage of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un’s sister at the Olympics.
The sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is reportedly pregnant with her second child.
The friendly competition for medals between athletes and nations are usually the focus of the Olympic games. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea proved otherwise.
President Donald Trump’s self-described unpredictability is “one of the most powerful assets in negotiation” in dealing with North Korea, said Michael Malice on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
In an extremely rare display of effusive praise, North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted dictator Kim Jong-un on Tuesday lauding South Korea’s treatment of a Pyongyang delegation to the Winter Olympics as “very impressive” and expressing gratitude that
North Korea may have sent an official delegation of athletes, Kim Jong-un’s sister, and a large group of identically dressed female “cheerleaders” to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, but an ordinary citizen of the communist country has yet to have access to any coverage of the events.
South Korean politicians and analysts are divided over North Korea’s proposal for a summit between dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang. Some are supportive of the idea or, at least, think it is worth a few days of President Moon’s time, while others believe the summit could be counterproductive or even dangerous.
Kim Yo-jong, North Korea’s head of Propaganda and Agitation and sister of Kim Jong-un, invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the “earliest date” to visit Pyongyang at her brother’s request.
CNN ran a Trump and Pence-bashing piece on Monday morning sourced entirely to “a senior diplomatic source close to North Korea.”
North Korea’s state media – run by head of Propaganda and Agitation at the Korean Workers’ Party, Kim Yo-jong – took a rare stab at the Chinese government for allegedly “seriously spoiling the atmosphere” of a meeting between North and South Korean officials.
There’s a new competitive sport at this year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea. Its participants are members of the establishment media. Their aim: to suck up to the despotic regime in North Korea. The gold medal goes to the most ingratiating and morally obtuse totalitarian ass-kisser. And though the games have just begun, I think I know who the winner is.
Contents: Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean dictator’s sister, charms the Olympics; Kim Yo-jong returns to Pyongyang with fond memories and an invitation for Moon; Moon Jae-in faces some difficult decisions
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister headed home Sunday night after a whirlwind three days in South Korea, where she sat among world dignitaries at the Olympics and tossed a diplomatic offer to the South aimed at ending seven decades of hostility.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Workers’ Party of Korea Propaganda and Agitation Director Kim Yo-Jong, Kim Jong-un’s sister, shook hands at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, an unprecedented diplomatic gesture between Seoul and Pyongyang.
This story originally appeared at the South China Morning Post: From Eric Clapton to Dennis Rodman, she has scripted an image makeover with a finesse few would have expected of the hermit kingdom. As North Korea takes the stage with
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly promoted his sister to a role running the country’s state security apparatus.
Kim Yo-jong, the 28-year-old sister of dictator Kim Jong-un, has become only the second woman in Communist North Korean history to join the Politburo. The first was Kim Kyong-hui, who was likewise the sister of the dictator at the time, Kim Jong-il.
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