Seoul—North Korea's recent missile tests involved "tactical nuclear" drills to simulate hitting the South, the North's state-run media said Monday. It said the launches were overseen by leader Kim Jong Un in response to U.S.-led joint military exercises in the region. Kim made acqui...
Jong-Chul did not believe in blind obedience, violence, and nucleur weapons. The Kim leaders choose their successors by which son is more capable of following their ways and if they didn't and another son was in power instead, North Korea might have been very different from how it is ...
the then-heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, Kim Jong Il — who is still known today, even after his death, as the eternal chairman of the National Defense Commission of the republic — used fake passports to take his young son, future Supreme Leader...
I, Kim Han Kyung , was born on September 3rd, 1933 , at 186 Yondong-Ni, Koryung-myun, Yunghung County, South Hamgyong Province (咸鏡南道 永興郡 古寧面 蓮洞里 186), North Korea (See Figure 1: Map of North Korea), of Kim Jung Mo (金正模, 1917 - 1998), a son of a farm...
North Korea has said it has no confirmed cases. South Korea’s Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, who oversees North Korea affairs, has said Kim’s public disappearance was not particularly unusual because the country had been taking stringent steps to head off an outbreak. ...
Kwon Chul-hyun said, taking one step back from the earlier stand to conditionally accept it. GNP leader Lee also stuck to the equivocal stance yesterday by saying that he is willing to meet anyone, including Kim Jong-il, if it helps the national unification process, but he would delay his...
Kim Jong Un’s thinner look prompts health speculation June 16, 2021 “Both parties are locked in a waiting game. North Korea wants the United States to make concessions first, and the United States has no intentions to match a level of action the North is demanding,” Shin said. ...
Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul told a closed-door forum in Seoul on Sunday that South Korea has “enough intelligence to confidently say that there are no unusual developments” in rival North Korea that would back up speculation about Kim Jong Un’s health, according to his ministry. ...
On the contrary, there is a lot of knowledge that North Korea does not teach, but is thought of as basic knowledge in the modern world. For example, most North Koreans cannot speak English or use a computer. Kim Chul Yong, the vice director of the movie “Crossing” said, “whatever ...
South Korean officials have also dismissed speculations of Kim possibly losing grip on the country because of his health. Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-Chul pointed to the North Korean state media reports about Kim's leadership. "Judging from these, it seems that Kim Jong-Un is ruling...