Tag: North Korea

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.

It claimed the flight was “timed to coincide with the U.S. official decision to deploy THAAD in South Korea.”

North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan, according to the South Korean military. The missiles were launched early on Tuesday local time from the western city of Hwangju and flew between 311 and 373 miles towards the Sea of Japan. In a statement, the South Koreans said: “The ballistic missiles […]

An American volunteer with the Kurdish Peshmerga caught a Squirtle near Mosul, Iraq and subsequently challenged Daesh (ISIS) to a Pokémon battle.

North Korea’s military said on Monday it will take “physical response” to a move by the United States and South Korea to deploy the advanced THAAD missile defense system to the Korean peninsula to counter the threat from the North. The United States and South Korea said on Friday that the Terminal High Altitude Area […]

North Korea blasted new U.S. sanctions on the rogue nation in no uncertain terms Thursday, saying the penalties amounted to a “declaration of a war,” the AFP reported. The Kim Jong Un’s regime vowed to retaliate, according to its statement. The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the dictator and 10 other senior officials Wednesday over […]

In a remarkable show of persistence, North Korea on Wednesday fired two suspected powerful new Musudan midrange ballistic missiles, U.S. and South Korean military officials said, its fifth and sixth such attempts since April. Five of those launches failed, many exploding in midair or crashing, and the sixth flew only about 400 kilometers (250 miles), […]

Japan’s military was on alert for a possible North Korean ballistic missile launch, a government source said on Tuesday, with media reporting its navy and anti-missile Patriot batteries have been told to shoot down any projectile heading for Japan. North Korea appeared to have moved an intermediate-range missile to its east coast, but there were […]

North Korean hackers reportedly infiltrated a computer network belonging to a South Korean aerospace firm’s computer network and made off with blueprints for the F-15 Eagle—the American-designed jet fighter that forms the backbone of the U.S. and South Korean air forces. But don’t panic quite yet. There’s not much Pyongyang’s engineers can actually do with […]

North Korea may be significantly expanding its nuclear weapons production and could have added six or more weapons to its stockpile in the last 18 months, a US research institute has said. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (Isis) estimated last year that North Korea had 10 to 16 nuclear weapons at the end […]

Kim admitted that a lack of power has affected economic development and improvement of people’s living standards.

Wandering through Times Square, past the Naked Cowboy and the Elmos and the ticket touts, she could be any immigrant trying to live the American Dream. A 60-year-old Korean woman with a soft perm and conservative clothes, she’s taking a weekend off from pressing shirts and hemming pants at the dry-cleaning business she runs with […]