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‘If US summit held, it will be used as boring boasting’, says North Korea
Pyongyang insists that it needs its nuclear arsenal to deter against a possible US invasion.
July 10, 2020 -
Korea versus Korea
A spokesman for the general staff of the North Korean People’s Army said troops would be sent to “resume all kinds of regular military exercises” at the two sites. Both projects have been closed for several years, but were once symbols of inter-Korean unity that many hoped would be strengthened as cross-border ties improved.
June 19, 2020 -
‘Very rude’: South Korea denounces Kim Jong Un’s sister for rejecting talks offer
The two zones are sites of long-shuttered joint inter-Korean projects: Southern tourists visited the scenic Mount Kumgang until a North Korean soldier in 2008 shot dead a woman who strayed off the path.
June 17, 2020 -
‘Will take action’: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister’s fresh threat to South Korea
Kim Yo Jong said that "the right to taking the next action against the enemy will be entrusted to the General Staff of our army.
June 14, 2020 -
North Korea vows to cut all phone lines with South over Seoul’s failure to stop anti-Pyongyang leaflets
Meanwhile, North Korea on Thursday warned the US not to meddle in inter-Korean relations if it wants to avoid experiencing an unspecified 'hair-raiser' and hold November's presidential election smoothly.
June 11, 2020 -
No signs Kim Jong-un received heart surgery, says South Korean spy agency
Kim attended the completion of a fertiliser plant, North Korea's official media said on Saturday, the first report of his appearing in public since April 11.
May 6, 2020 -
‘Glad to see Kim Jong-un back and well’, says Donald Trump
Last week, the North Korean leader was gravely ill following heart surgery.
May 3, 2020 -
North Korean defector ‘99%’ sure that Kim Jong-un has died: Report
The lawmaker-elect said that Kim Yo-jong, sister of the North's leader, is likely to succeed him, as many experts have already speculated.
May 1, 2020 -
Kim’s reshuffle
We do not know if the hermit kingdom is also battling the virus; it is much too closeted to share its data on public health. Yet we do know that however isolated, the omnipotent President Kim has reinstated his powerful younger sister to a key decision-making entity.
April 16, 2020 -
N Korea tests super-large multiple rocket launcher
On Tuesday, North Korea fired a new round of short-range projectiles, South Korean officials said, only hours after it signalled a new willingness to resume stalled denuclearisation talks with the United States in late September.
September 11, 2019 -
N Korea tests new multiple rocket under guidance of Kim Jong-un
"The test-fire proved that all the tactical and technological specifications of the system correctly reached the preset indexes."
August 25, 2019 -
Her brother’s envoy
The focus in the Korean Peninsula on the eve of the Winter Olympics has been riveted to Kim Yo-jong, younger sister of the belligerent North Korean President, Kim Jong-un. As her brother’s envoy, she has scripted a chapter in history more than 60 years after the last member of the Kim family had set foot …
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February 17, 2018 -
Moon meets Kim’s sister inside Blue House
The meeting is the most significant diplomatic encounter between the two sides in more than a generation, CNN said.
February 10, 2018