South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik has called for quickly killing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and other top officials in Pyongyang in the event that war breaks out on the peninsula again. Shin issued his order on Wednesday, telling South Korea’s Army Special Warfare Command to make preparations for taking out North Korea’s leaders. “If Kim Jong-un starts a war, as a key unit of... 

It’s very likely that the government Kim Jong Un will soon ramp up its provocative missile tests once again, given that the US and South Korean militaries have just kicked off their spring drills. The ‘Freedom Shield’ exercises began Monday and are scheduled to run through March 14. Importantly, these are the first annual joint Freedom Shield drills since Pyongyang pulled out of a 2018 inter-Korean... 

Hundreds of North Korean soldiers have reportedly died from the coronavirus and thousands of others are being quarantined. But the secretive nation’s leaders are sticking to the official narrative that the global epidemic has not reached them. According to Daily NK, a South Korean news organisation, the Covid-19 virus killed 180 North Korean soldiers in January and February and has sent another... 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has deemed South Korea the hermit kingdom’s top enemy, eschewing any chances of reunification between the two nations divided by the 38th parallel. In a Jan. 15 speech, Jong Un said he concluded that peaceful reunification was no longer possible. He added that Pyongyang would scrub any reference to South Koreans as fellow countrymen or partners for reconciliation.... 

Tensions escalate once again on the Korean peninsula as North Korea conducts live-fire drills near its maritime border with the South for the third consecutive day, prompting fears of a significant escalation in hostilities. Residents on Yeonpyeong Island, a border island last hit by North Korean shells in 2010, are urged to stay indoors as gunfire echoes nearby. While none of Pyongyang’s artillery... 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has tearfully called on his country’s women to have more children, as the hermit kingdom faces a dwindling population. During the National Mothers’ Meeting on Dec. 3 in Pyongyang, he exhorted women to have more children while dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief. Kim told the thousands of women at the meeting that reversing North Korea’s declining... 

Amidst escalating tensions surrounding North Korea’s alleged supply of weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, the United States issued a stern warning to Kim Jong-un’s regime, cautioning that such actions would not go unpunished on the international stage. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan asserted that North Korea would “pay a price” for its involvement in arms negotiations... 

The country’s Unification Ministry announced on Friday that South Korea will employ NGOs and international organizations to persuade Pyongyang to resume talks. It also mentioned that the embargo on North Korean media may be relaxed out of goodwill. The South Korean government will “seek direct and indirect contact with North Korea through civic groups and international organizations in... 

A desperate Vladimir Putin is considering turning to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for help in his invasion of Ukraine, and is willing to offer energy and grain in return for 100,000 soldiers, according to reports in Russia. North Korea has made it clear through ‘diplomatic channels’ that as well as providing builders to repair war damage, it is ready to supply a vast fighting force... 

A senior US official has vowed a “forceful response” should North Korea conduct a nuclear test. The response follows Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile launch over the weekend, which was matched by a similar show of force from Washington and Seoul. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with her South Korean counterpart, Deputy US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman argued that any nuclear... 

Chinese President Xi Jinping said “friendship and cooperation” with Pyongyang would be strengthened. Chinese President Xi Jinping has underlined the importance of his country’s relationship with North Korea due to an unspecified “new situation”, (most likely West’s aggressiveness on Russia) Korean media reported on Saturday, citing Pyongyang’s state outlet KCNA. The publication shared... 

North Korea has been a food insecure nation for much of the past 30 years, with the end of Soviet fuel subsidies in 1991 wreaking havoc on its mechanised agriculture. This, compounded with a period of droughts and floods, caused major food shortages in the 1990s, which turned into famines that killed between 240,000 and 600,000 people. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has expressed concern about the... 

As American educational institutions continue to be called into question, a North Korean defector fears the United States’ future “is as bleak as North Korea” after she attended one of the country’s most prestigious universities. Yeonmi Park has experienced plenty of struggle and hardship, but she does not call herself a victim. One of several hundred North Korean defectors... 

The North Korean military has showcased a new mobile intercontinental ballistic missile during Saturday’s military parade, one which experts say is larger than any previously demonstrated weapon of its type. Four ICBMs of the new variety were carried by 11-axle erector-launcher vehicles, and they may be the new weapon system whose existence was hinted at by the North Korean government in December... 

On Thursday, US media referred to a soon-to-be-released book by veteran American reporter Bob Woodward, who claimed, in particular, that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had once bragged about putting the head of his uncle on display after having him executed. Five North Korean Economy Ministry employees were executed by a firing squad over their criticism of policies pursued by the country’s leader...