Tag: Kim Jong-un

North Korea mobilises aircraft in response to US bombers

North Korea has moved its airplanes and strengthened defences on its eastern coast after the US dispatched fighter jets and bombers to the Korean peninsula earlier last weekend, a South Korean intelligence source said on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the National Intelligence Service (NIS) told Efe news that this information, which was transmitted to a...

September 26, 2017

Trump, Kim are like ‘children in a kindergarten’: Russia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has likened the war of words between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to a kindergarten fight between children. The North Korean leader earlier labelled Trump “mentally deranged” and a “dotard” after Trump threatened to destroy his country. Trump responded with a tweet calling Kim Jong-un...

September 23, 2017

Biting sanctions

At least one of the sanctions ~ a ban on textile exports ~ imposed on North Korea, which has accelerated its nuclear weapons development under the leadership of Kim Jong-Un is likely to hit the “hermit kingdom” severely. Kim, a third-generation dictator, has conducted four of North Korea’s six nuclear tests since assuming power in...

September 23, 2017

Trump is mentally deranged, will pay: Kim Jong-un

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to take the “highest-level” of action against “mentally deranged” US President Donald Trump’s threat to “totally destroy” Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programmes, a state-media report said on Friday. In a rare direct statement, Kim said he “will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level...

September 22, 2017

Kim vows to make Trump ‘pay dearly’ for threatening N Korea: KCNA

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un today mocked Donald Trump as “mentally deranged” — and warned he will make the US president “pay dearly” for threatening the destruction of his country at the United Nations. Kim lashed out after Trump stunned the world on Tuesday when he used his maiden UN General Assembly speech to warn...

September 22, 2017

Blunt and Fearful

Donald Trump’s performance at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday has been greeted with a sense of shock and awe by the global order that constitutes the entity. The US President has made a robust effort to match Kim Jong-un’s intemperate bluster with his own. The speech was of a piece with the decidedly contemptuous...

September 21, 2017

Donald Trump mocks Kim Jong-un

US President Donald Trump once again mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, calling him “Rocket Man”, an allusion to Pyongyang’s recent nuclear tests, as well as speaking ironically about the “long … lines” of people waiting to get fuel in the nation after the sanctions imposed by the UN. “I spoke with President Moon of...

September 18, 2017

Ending Pyongyang’s brinkmanship

The tensions surrounding the brinkmanship of the North Korean leader have kept the two countries most imperiled, South Korea and Japan on edge. In the latter case there were reports of brisk sales of nuclear shelters. Something similar is bound to be taking place in South Korea as well. In the face of the scale...

September 11, 2017

US determined to have UN vote on N Korea sanctions: Diplomats 

The United States is determined to have a vote at the UN Security Council on Monday on imposing tough new sanctions against North Korea despite resistance from China and Russia, UN diplomats have said. Washington has presented a draft UN resolution calling for an oil embargo on North Korea, an assets freeze on Kim Jong-Un,...

September 8, 2017

North Korea celebrates nuclear test

North Korea held a mass celebration for the scientists involved in carrying out its largest nuclear blast to date, with fireworks and a mass rally in Pyongyang. Citizens of the capital lined the streets Wednesday to cheer buses carrying the specialists into the city, and tens of thousands of people gathered in Kim Il-Sung Square...

September 7, 2017

North Korea ‘begging for war’: Haley

North Korea is “begging for war” with abusive use of missiles and nuclear threats, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said, pushing for the “strongest possible measures” against Pyongyang following its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. On Sunday, North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile and...

September 5, 2017

Pyongyang may fire ICBM towards North Pacific: Seoul

North Korea may fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) towards the North Pacific following its sixth nuclear test conducted a day earlier, South Korea’s intelligence agency revealed on Monday. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said that more analysis is needed to verify whether the North detonated an electromagnetic pulse-based bomb or a hydrogen bomb during...

September 4, 2017

BRICS leaders deplore North Korea nuclear test

BRICS leaders have strongly deplored North Korea’s latest nuclear test, according to a declaration released here on Monday. “We express deep concern over the ongoing tension and prolonged nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and emphasise that it should only be settled through peaceful means and direct dialogue between all the parties concerned,” the BRICS...

September 4, 2017

Kim Jong-un observes missile-ready hydrogen bomb

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a hydrogen bomb being loaded into a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) after the country claimed that it has succeeded in making a “more developed nuke”, state-media reported on Sunday. Kim made the inspection during a visit to the country’s Nuclear Weapons Institute, according to the Korean Central News...

September 3, 2017

Fire and Fury

North Korea has intensified its defiance of world opinion, but the comity of nations, notably the US, is groping for a commensurately robust response after the Kim Jong-un regime fired yet another missile, this time over pacifist Japan. Last Monday’s renewed bout of muscle-flexing ~ after the recent firing of a second ICBM missile ~...

September 3, 2017

Japan’s pacifism under threat

North Korea’s most recent weapons test, in which a was fired over Japan, marks the latest stage of an escalating crisis in East Asia. But the crisis is, to an extent, where it has always been: the regime of Kim Jong-un is pursuing the capacity to launch miniaturised nuclear weapons attached to intercontinental missiles with...

August 31, 2017

North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un becomes father for third time

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has fathered another child, reports said on Tuesday, after his wife dropped out of the public eye for several months. First lady Ri Sol-Ju delivered the couple’s third child in February, the Yonhap news agency reported today, citing South Korean lawmakers who were briefed by the National Intelligence Service. Ri...

August 29, 2017