Kim Ki-nam, North Korea's former secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), died at the age of 94 on Wednesday, KCNA reported.He was widely regarded as the country's prop
He spent decades overseeing propaganda and building personality cults around leaders.
SEOUL >> South Korea’s foreign ministry on Thursday raised the terrorism alert level for five diplomatic offices in the region citing intelligence that North Korea may attempt to harm its officials.
North Korea recently demolished facilities near major roads connecting it to South Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry confirmed on Monday, while local media reported that the DPRK also installed landmines near three inter-Korean crossings. The destruction of the facilities near the Gyeongui road on the west and the Donghae road near the east coast follows the
The South Korean government raised the terror alert levels at five overseas missions on Thursday, citing the possibility of attacks by the North.The Foreign Ministry in Seoul ordered elevated threat monitoring at its embassies in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh; Laos' capital, Vientiane; and Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. Warnings were also sent to its consulates in Vladivostok in Russia's Far East and in Shenyang in northeastern China.The diplomatic missions were warned after a government...
The findings of the UN sanctions monitoring team indicate that North Korea has violated arms sanctions by supplying “Hwasong-11” missiles to Russia. Reuters reported on Monday, April 29th, citing the results of the UN sanctions monitors’ review presented to the Security Council’s committee, that remnants of North Korean ballistic missiles have been seen in Ukraine. […]
North Charleston Police Chief Greg Gomes never really planned on being the department’s chief, he told the Charleston City Paper April 24. But when now-Mayor Reggie Burgess — the former chief — announced his bid for the city’s top office, he simultaneously announced his retirement as chief of one of the largest police forces in […]
Around half the North Korean missiles launched by Russia on Ukraine have exploded in midair due to malfunction, according to the Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office.The prosecutor's office provided that estimate to Reuters in a story published on Tuesday, citing examined debris from what they said were North Korean ballistic missiles fired by Russia between December and February.The United States, South Korea and other countries have accused Pyongyang of providing Russia with missiles,...
Commercial satellite imagery shows renewed construction at Uiju Airfield, North Korea’s largest import quarantine facility located northeast of Sinuiju City.…