Tag: North Korea

The US has sanctioned two officials it calls ‘key leaders’ of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The sanctions block the men from any property or transactions from American citizens. The move follows UN sanctions and is part of President Donald Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure campaign.’ WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions Tuesday […]

The soldiers defecting from North Korea to the south have been interesting subjects of medical study. The defector who was shot several times was found to have tapeworms up to 11 inches long in his intestines. Fleeing soldiers or civilians are often malnourished and have been denied a lot of basic healthcare. However, the most […]

According to reports out of South Korea, one of the North Korean soldiers who defected to South Korea in recent months has anthrax antibodies in his system.  Although this report currently comes from a medical official that has requested anonymity, confirmation of this claim could prove that North Korea possesses a stockpile of the biological […]

During the Cold War, American and Russian space faring efforts enjoyed a level of prestige (and more notably, funding) unparalleled in the modern world. In hind sight, we tend to attribute historic accomplishments like Yuri Gagarin’s momentous trip to into orbit and Neil Armstrong’s legendary first step onto another world as symbolic victories for our […]

On Friday, the United Nations unanimously voted to levy the harshest sanctions yet against Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime.  The new limitations include a significant reduction in oil imports into the nation and the demand for all North Korean citizens working abroad to return to their home nation within 24 months.  Because North Korea […]

North Korea has once again reverted to the age-old propaganda tactic: pamphlet drops. According to news outlets throughout South Korea, more than 2 million leaflets have been found. Leaflet drops coming from the North haven’t been as common, and the subject matter has historically gone from general images of war, destruction and threatening mayhem, to […]

The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted in favor of the strictest sanctions levied yet on Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime on Friday.  This new round of sanctions will significantly reduce the nation’s access to crude oil and petroleum-based products, and aims to cut Kim off from one of his more important foreign revenue […]

Throughout months of rising tensions between Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime and a consortium of foreign nations led by the United States, one question has loomed like a dark cloud over the diplomatic effort to avoid war: can sanctions actually affect any real change? A new series of sanctions making their way to a […]

North Korea’s progress toward developing a nuclear arsenal capable of targeting opponents as far away as the United States has long been a subject of concern for American defense officials.  Few weapons in history can illicit such a sense of dread and foreboding, but with the potential for conflict on the Korean Peninsula reaching new highs, there […]

South Korean soldiers reportedly fired warning shots at North Korean border troops as they searched for yet another defector that managed to make it across the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea early Thursday morning.  While it was once considered nearly impossible to cross the heavily fortified Military Demarcation Line (MDL) that houses a […]

North Korea was a major threat to Seoul’s 1988 Olympic Games. US spies were worried that North Korea would “ruin” the Games, after being denied the opportunity to co-host with South Korea. North Korea remains as high a priority as ever as South Korea prepares for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. North Korea has been […]

Late in the evening of April 26th, 1986, a safety test simulated a power station failure shut safety systems down at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in Soviet-controlled Ukraine. A combination of design flaws in the reactor and station personnel failing to adhere to established safety precautions during the test soon led to an […]