North Korea moved nearly $175 million through prominent U.S. banks in recent years in a money-laundering scheme that used shell companies and help from Chinese companies, according to confidential bank documents reviewed by NBC News in a report published Sunday.
North Korea’s communist regime ordered inspections and “ideological education” across the ruling Korean Workers’ Party, Radio Free Asia reported Friday, after images of the Kim family were found in scrap paper.
Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” if President Donald Trump is re-elected in November, he will be “unbridled” and head America down the path of being like Russia or North Korea.
Author Bob Woodward’s new book Rage, an examination of President Donald Trump’s first term due to be released on September 15, reportedly includes excerpts from the letters Trump exchanged with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. One of the letters from Kim is said to include an explicit account of the execution of his uncle Jang Song-thaek in 2013.
General Robert B. Abrams, commander of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), revealed in an interview Thursday that the communist dictatorship running North Korea issued “shoot-to-kill” orders on its border with China to prevent smugglers from infecting the country with Chinese coronavirus.
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly once warned a top United States intelligence official that “collective action” might be required to stem President Donald Trump’s “dangerous” behavior in the White House, according to a new book by the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward.
Multiple American agencies, including the FBI and Department of the Treasury, warned on Wednesday that a hacking syndicate affiliated with North Korea is installing malware in ATMs around the world, stealing billions to fund the regime.
Jang Sung-min, formerly a South Korean diplomat and aide to President Kim Dae-jung, claimed this weekend that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is comatose, citing no first-hand evidence for the allegation.
A North Korean state propaganda website announced the creation of a domestically accessible website to help citizens quit smoking on Sunday, news that arrives as Pyongyang expedites the construction of a new hospital and insists it has yet to be affected by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
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.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is forcing households in the capital, Pyongyang, to turn in their pet dogs to the government so that they may be sold to restaurants for human consumption amid a national food shortage.
The North Korea monitor site 38 North revealed on Thursday that satellite images suggest significant flooding at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, a facility believed to be used for uranium enrichment, that may have “exposed how vulnerable the nuclear reactors’ cooling systems are to extreme weather events.”
Israel’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday said hackers from a North Korea-backed group targeted local defense officials, luring them with fake LinkedIn profiles offering lucrative job offers in a failed attempt to gain access to their networks.
North Korean state television published photos allegedly of communist dictator Kim Jong-un visiting North Hwanghae Province on Friday following devastating floods in the area.
The test results for a man in North Korea suspected of being the country’s first official coronavirus case were “inconclusive,” a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) official told Reuters on Wednesday.
People in North Korea are “unconvinced” by the Kim regime’s claim that an infected defector returning to his homeland caused the current “national maximum emergency” over the Chinese coronavirus, Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed Thursday.
The United Nations is investigating a potentially illegal military agreement between North Korea and its ally Venezuela, Reuters revealed, leading to calls from the government of President Juan Guaidó for the world to repudiate the socialist regime.
The North Korea monitor website 38 North published satellite images on Tuesday that indicate uranium enrichment activity continues at the communist regime’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, one of the top facilities for the generation of nuclear fuel.
The U.S. ambassador to South Korea shaved off his mustache recently to stay “cool” during the country’s hot summer months after his controversial facial hair drew heat from anti-U.S. activists who claimed the mustache was a nod to former Japanese colonial rulers, Reuters reported on Monday.
Recently revealed satellite data shows that 700 Chinese vessels fished illegally in North Korean waters in 2018, violating U.N. sanctions on foreign fishing adopted in 2017 after Pyongyang’s testing of ballistic missiles, the Japan Times reported Monday.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un credited the nation’s illegal nuclear weapons program for eradicating war from the country in a speech on Monday to veterans of the Korean War.
North Korea claimed to have identified its first suspected Chinese coronavirus case on Sunday, a refugee who had fled the country three years ago and allegedly snuck back across the border last week.
Chinese “Dark Fleets” have been fishing in North Korean waters in violation of United Nations sanctions, earning the Hermit Kingdom millions of dollars in illicit fees, local experts warned this week.
The communist dictatorship of North Korea claimed this weekend that it had started developing a vaccine against the Chinese coronavirus despite its deteriorated healthcare system and its claim to have documented no coronavirus cases nationwide.
Kim Jong-un reportedly berated members of his communist “Workers’ Party” on Monday for “serious problems” in the construction of the Pyongyang General Hospital and ordered his senior officers to “replace all the officials responsible” for the “careless” budgeting around its construction.
North Koreans caught without a face mask as a precautionary measure for the Chinese coronavirus pandemic are being sentenced to at least three months of hard labor, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Friday.
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.
A Dutch cybersecurity firm called Sansec issued a report on Monday accusing North Korean hackers of waging a year-long campaign to steal credit card information from American and European online retailers.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un urged his government to maintain “maximum alert” against the Chinese coronavirus on Thursday, warning of an “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis” should North Korea ease its stringent virus countermeasures too early, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported Friday, citing North Korean state media.
Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, a Cuban biologist and human rights activist, failed to complete a 90-second statement before the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday after member states Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and China interrupted him for nearly 13 minutes.
Leftist South Korean President Moon Jae-in is urging President Donald Trump to hold a third summit with North Korean President Kim Jong-un before the U.S. presidential election in November, South Korean media outlets reported on Thursday.
North Korean officials shut down the city of Chongjin, the third-largest in the country, over a growing Chinese coronavirus outbreak there, Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed on Wednesday.
Seventy years ago today, on June 25th 1950, the Korean People’s Army crossed the 38th Parallel and advanced into South Korea with infantry, tanks and artillery, and the support of China and Soviet Russia.
A group of North Korean defectors launched 20 large helium balloons carrying 500,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets from South Korea across the border to the North on Monday night.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un reportedly canceled on Wednesday a military invasion of South Korea floated this month, state media claimed, on a day in which state propaganda outlets also reportedly deleted large amounts of belligerent literature against the South.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro expressed openness to meeting President Donald Trump “respectfully” on Monday, a response to Trump saying in an interview over the weekend that a meeting with Maduro was possible.
A statement from North Korea’s embassy in Moscow observing the 70th anniversary of the still-ongoing Korean War this weekend threatened a “sensational event” leading to the destruction of the United States.
Eighteen months after their arrest, Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig have been charged with espionage by the Chinese regime.
