North Korean troop movements on the North Korean side of the border are often an indicator that the country's leadership is preparing for tense situations, much as what happened when Kim Jong Un assumed power late last year. Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, saw a spike in traffi...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia- The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wasassassinated at an airportin Kuala Lumpur, telling medical workers before he died en route to a hospital that he had been attacked with a chemical spray, a Malaysian official said Tuesday. Kim Jong Nam, 46, w...
The comments by the National Intelligence Service in a private briefing to lawmakers come as Malaysia investigates thepoisoning death of Kim’s estranged elder half brother,Kim Jong Nam. Thatinvestigation is still going on, but South Korea says it believes Kim Jong Un ordered the assassinat...
a linchpin of the north korean economy. it seemed that the assassination and the simultaneously escalating confrontation over jong-un's nukes could explode the decades-stalled korean war into a global conflict. a month and a half later, malaysia blinked in order to free its citizens, turning ...
Since 2011, Kim Jong-un has been the leader of North Korea. Check out our Kim Jong-unquotesbelow! Who is Kim Jong-un? In his country, they know him as Respected Comrade Jim Jong-un, and he is the Supreme Leader of North Korea. ...
Through the circus of it all, and the Machiavellian fear, Yo-jong had lost one of the last remaining certainties in her life. The people that 'shared' her social circle, were always coming-and-going. Exile assassination, even defection was common – her aunt defected in 1998 – but for ...
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump once again flaunted his close relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump, who emphasized ‘unity’ following the assassination attempt, also criticized President Joe Biden as a ‘threat to democracy,’ renewing a stance he had been...
Kim is widely believed to have ordered the assassination of his half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, in Malaysia in February 2017.In 2018, Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met twice in Panmunjom on the border between North and South, and once in Pyongyang. On 12 June 2018, ...
Ten years ago, the world watched as a young Kim Jong Un solemnly walked beside his father’s hearse on a snowy morning in Pyongyang as distraught North Koreans wailed in grief. Kim’s long black coat and hairstyle, reminiscent of his late grandfather Kim Il Sung...
and South Korean spy agencies of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on leader Kim Jong Un involving biochemical weapons.In a statement carried on state media, North Korea's Ministry of State Security said it will "ferret out and mercilessly destroy" the "terrorists" in the CIA and South ...