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Thae Yong-ho, a former senior official at North Korea’s embassy in London who defected in 2016, appeared before a congressional hearing on Wednesday to provide U.S. lawmakers with some perspective into the mindset of the North Korean populous, and into their enigmatic Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. Tensions between North Korea and the United States […]
In the wake of the release of the U.S Navy investigation into collisions between American warships and merchant vessels over the past year, senior leadership within America’s seaward military branch announced a number of changes intended to prevent such tragic mistakes from occurring again in the future. In June, the USS Fitzgerald collided with a […]
The Kim Jong un regime may be preparing to test another missile in North Korea to coincide with President Donald Trump’s first major trip to Asia, Reuters reports. The information was briefed to South Korean officials by the South Korean intelligence organization, and their assessment was based on “the active movement of vehicles around the missile […]
North Korea said US B-1B bombers flew over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday and carried out bombing drills simulating attacks on major targets in the country, the North’s official KCNA news agency said on Friday. The strategic bombers, escorted by US and South Korean fighter jets, flew from the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam, […]
A prominent North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea last year appeared before the House Foreign Affairs committee Wednesday, offering a rare public testimony to what life is like for the elite upper class in the closed-off regime of Kim Jong un. Citing his desire to keep his sons safe and free, Thae Yong-ho […]
Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, the senior enlisted advisor to Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accompanied Dunford on his recent trip to South Korea, but while Dunford attended high level meetings with other defense officials, Troxell set out to see how the troops were doing […]
On September 3rd, North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test to date. The dual-stage device was a first for Kim’s regime, who had previously only been able to harness the power of traditional atomic bombs. The successful detonation of the country’s first hydrogen bomb had a reverberating effect throughout the world, as nations […]
Kim Jong Un’s iron grip on the North Korean people is weakening, and an information campaign rooted in soap operas and dramas could help advance a civilian uprising, a prominent defector told a congressional panel Wednesday. “Great and unexpected changes are taking place within North Korea,” Thae Yong-ho, a former diplomat in North Korea’s Embassy […]
According to reports out of the region, two North Korean agents were taken into custody in China after law enforcement foiled a plot to assassinate the nephew of North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong un. Kim Han-sol, the target of the alleged assassination attempt, is the eldest son of the now deceased Kim Jong-nam, who was […]
After attending the 49th annual Security Consultative Meeting with South Korean Minister of National Defense Song Young-moo in Seoul on Friday, American Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke to the press about the most pressing threat in the region, North Korea. In his statements, Mattis drew a clear line in the sand in terms of […]
Japanese media has released details into an apparent tunnel collapse in North Korea’s nuclear test site that is believed to have killed as many as 200 people. In a report made on Tuesday, Japanese TV Asahi claimed that some 100 people were trapped or killed in an initial collapse that occurred days after North Korea’s […]
American Secretary of Defense James Mattis toured the DMZ separating the U.S. allied South Korea from their aggressive neighbors to the North on Friday. The defense official’s arrival was intended as a sign of America’s unwavering support of the South Korean people, but also offered some reminders as to the scale of the threat Kim’s […]
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