Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

The United Nations Security Council edged closer to imposing new sanctions on North Korea with an emergency strategy session Tuesday and a unanimous condemnation of Pyongyang’s latest missile test. The council, including North Korea’s ally and protector China, met hours after warning Pyongyang that sanctions are a possibility. A statement issued Monday said the body […]

In an elaborate military parade this past weekend designed to set the stage for another spectacular missile test, North Korea rolled out the highest profile heavy hitters in its arsenal. The occasion landed on what would have been North Korea’s founding father Kim Il-Sung’s 105th birthday, and was speculated to coincide with the Democratic People’s […]

While doing some research on North Korea, I came across an interesting article about how North Korean military advisors to Uganda partly inspired a bizarre cult-like guerrilla group called the Holy Spirit Movement.  This movement later played into the formation of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.  Also during the 1980’s, it is interesting to note […]

This is resurfaced footage from the Battle of Amami-Ōshima, also known as the Spy Ship Incident in the Southwest Sea of Kyūshū in 2001! A North Korean Spy Ship was sunk by Japan after a six-hour confrontation between the Japanese Coast Guard and an armed North Korean vessel, which took place near the island of […]

Back in July, we told you about plans for North Korea’s first airshow. Now it’s time to report how the Wonsan Air Festival 2016 turned out! Kalma International Airport in Wonsan, North Korea was the scene of North Korea’s first international airshow, dubbed the Wonsan International Friendship Air Festival 2016. In an effort to promote tourism to the hermit […]

The ship was not a simple rusty trawler, and held proof of the level of sophistication found in some of the North Korean endeavors. Literally, some 1960’s James Bond level tech.

There is however, speculation that the ship was not, in fact, a spy vessel, but a narcotics mule. The vessel may have been hauling heroin to the Japanese Yakuza, which is, even more of reason to have sunk the vessel.

Narcotics interdiction on North Korean vessels in the Western Pacific Rim, is not uncommon.

The 14-minute broadcast of two sets of numbers by a female voice appears to have been the work of the Voice of Korea (formerly Radio Pyongyang), a North Korean radio propaganda station that broadcasts accolades of the Kim family.