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North Korea holds military drill near South Korea simulating capture
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
The North Korean leader attended battlefield gunnery training near the South Korean border on Friday. The drills took place ahead of the announced US-South Korea joint war games set for March close to North Korea’s border.
The exercise simulated the assault and capture of an enemy island, reported the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The drills...
US sanctions won't create friction within North Korean establishment
US sanctions against North Korea is an attempt to create friction within the North Korean establishment but the move will not succeed, according to an analyst in Belgrade, Serbia.
Joaquin Flores, geostrategist and director at Center for Syncretic Studies, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday.
The Obama administration imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday, two weeks...
North Korea calls Barack Obama a ‘Monkey’ after accusing US over internet blackout
The “rogue state” of North Korea used a racial slur to describe the American president Barack Hussein Obama, as the row over the Sony Pictures hack and release of The Interview continues.
North Korea has sparked outrage after referring to Barack Obama as “a monkey in a tropical forest”, while accusing America of orchestrating an internet blackout in the Sony Pictures hack row.
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Security firm says Sony hack might have been an inside job
Despite claims by the FBI that North Korea was behind the massive hack against Sony, several cybersecurity experts have come forward to raise questions about the allegation, with some suggesting that insiders at the company could be to blame.
One such expert, Kurt Stammberger from the Norse cybersecuirty firm, told CBS News that his team believes a woman identified only as “Lena” was heavily involved...
U.S. Takes Down North Korea's Internet
North Korea is suffering a complete internet outage.
The New York Times reports the network failure or probable take down is one of the worst in years.
North Korea’s internet is managed by Star Joint Venture, a state-run company that routes much of its traffic through China Unicom, China’s state-owned telecommunications company.
According analysts, North Korea began experiencing problems on Friday...
USA tells North Korea to pay damages to Sony for unreleased film
A White House official has advised Pyongyang to admit it is guilty of hacking Sony Pictures’ database and pay damages to the film company. Washington dismissed North Korea’s proposal to hold a joint investigation.
A spokesman for the White House National Security Council (NSC), Mark Stroh, said Saturday that “If the North Korean government wants to help, they can admit their culpability and...
Pyongyang proposes joint probe with US on Sony hack to prove its innocence
An exterior view of the Sony Pictures building in Culver City, California.
North Korea has proposed a joint investigation with the United States into the recent hacking of American Sony Pictures to prove that Pyongyang had nothing to do with the cyberattack.
An unnamed North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement on Saturday that Pyongyang can prove it is not responsible for the hacking,...
Obama threatens retaliation after FBI accuses North Korea of Sony Hack
“The Interview” involves a plot that leads to the fictional assassination of the North Korean leader.
US President Barack Obama has threatened to retaliate a cyber attack on Sony Pictures after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) publically blamed it on the North Korean government.
“They caused a lot of damage and we will respond. We will respond proportionally… in a place, time,...
North Korea 'purges the disabled because they humiliate the regime'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observes the military’s winter training earlier this month. A defector has claimed that his regime routinely ‘cleanses’ the population of disabled people by making them disappear and subjecting them to horrific medical experiments because they are a ‘humiliation’ to the regime.
North Korea is systematically purging its disabled population...
Kim Jong-un is back! Where was he? Busy killing adversaries
An undated photograph made available by the Rodong Sinmun newspaper of the North Korean ruling Workers’ Party on 22 October 2014 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting the newly completed Yonphung Scientists Rest Home, south of Pyongyang, North Korea.
Six of North Korea’s high ranking officials have ‘disappeared’ in the latest blood-thirsty purge of the regime, it has been reported.
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North Korea on lockdown, bans all travelers from anywhere due to Ebola fears
Foreign tourists with any travel history are now not welcome in North Korea – concerns about Ebola made Pyongyang bar any tours from entering the country. At least this is what North Korean specialized travel agencies tell media.
“We have just received official news from our partners in the DPRK that, as of tomorrow, tourists from any country, regardless of where they have recently visited,...
North, South Korea trade machine gun fire along land border
Seoul military officials say North and South Korea have exchanged fire across their land border after the North shot balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets floated from the South.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said shots could be heard from north of the border at around 3:55 p.m. local time (0655 GMT) on Friday, about two hours after balloons containing 200,000 leaflets were...
North Korean leader missing North possibly planning Unification
We may finally see the end of an evil, repressive, communist regime.
It is impossible to know exactly what is going on in North Korea, but something big has happened.
The third generation Kim dynasty heir, Kim Jong-un, has been missing from public sight for a month, and may be ill, dead, or overthrown. There is much speculation, and contradictory reports are circulating, including the assertion that...
North Korean banker steals $5 million and defects to Russia
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
A senior North Korean scumbag banker, who managed financial affairs of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has reportedly defected to Russia with 5 million dollars while North Koreans starve of hunger due to extreme poverty caused by prolonged communism.
Yun Tae Hyong, a representative of Korea Daesong Bank, disappeared in Russia’s far eastern city of Nakhodka last week...
North Korea Vows to Nuke White House If Threatened
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects the tactical rocket firing drill of the units of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Strategic Force on July 10, 2014.
A senior North Korean official says his country will wage nuclear war on the United States if the autonomy of his country is threatened, the Korea Times reported.
“If the U.S. ever threatens our autonomy or existence, our military will launch...