Jon Stewart Mocks The US Response To North Korea After 'The Interview' Fiasco
After a holiday break, Jon Stewart returned to "The Daily Show" Monday night to tackle the recent controversy surrounding "The Interview.""Seth Rogen and James Franco's film 'The Interview' opened to...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Strange Juggling Act Is Becoming Ever More Perilous
On his birthday on January 8th, when he may have turned 32, North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong Un, could bask in the cowed admiration of his benighted people. Abroad, few were wishing him many happy...
View ArticleNorth Korea May Have Equipped Two Submarines With Ballistic Missile Launch...
Evidence has appeared in recent commercial imagery that a new North Korean submarine has up to two vertical launch missile submarines.A website run by the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School...
View ArticleKim Jong-Un May Have Just Accepted Putin's Invitation To Visit Moscow
Kim Jong-Un may take his first ever foreign visit as Supreme Leader of North Korea, NK News reports citing a South Korean diplomatic source that spoke to the Yonhap News Agency. Russian President...
View ArticleA North Korean Gulag Survivor Admits He Lied In His Best-Selling Book
A North Korean defector, whose dramatic escape from a brutal prison camp was the subject of a bestselling book, has changed key parts of his story and on Sunday apologised for misleading people."Escape...
View ArticleKim Jong Un Is Heading To Russia
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has confirmed his attendance at Russia's celebrations in May marking the Soviet victory over Germany in World War Two, South Korea's Yonhap news agency...
View ArticleNorth Korea May Be Trying To Restart A Nuclear Reactor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea may be trying to restart a nuclear reactor that can yield plutonium for atomic bombs, a U.S. security think tank said on Wednesday, citing new satellite imagery.An...
View ArticleRussia has announced plans for joint military drills with North Korea
A top Russian military official has stated that Moscow plans on conducting joint military exercises with North Korea, a number of media outlets have reported. “We are planning an expansion of the...
View ArticleNorth Korea says it sees no need to negotiate with 'gangster' U.S.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it sees no more need to negotiate with the United States, accusing Washington of plotting to "bring down" its regime, and threatened to strike back using...
View ArticleThe US is pushing for more sanctions against North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to broaden sanctions against North Korea by imposing stiffer punishments on foreign companies doing business with Pyongyang, a...
View ArticleNorth Korea just test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile, images released by state media on Saturday showed, demonstrating the increased capability of the secretive state's outdated...
View ArticleNorth Korea has unveiled a list of 310 ridiculous new political slogans
Seoul (AFP) - North Korea unveiled Thursday an exclamation mark peppered list of 310 new political slogans covering every conceivable topic, from the glories of the ruling Kim dynasty and mushroom...
View ArticleNew Kim Jong Un golf game makes it impossible to get anything but a hole in one
Have you ever secretly fantasized about living life as North Korea leader Kim Jong Un?Well, now you can be Kim, at least in a new video game.The online game featuring a very overweight Kim and retro...
View ArticleKim Jong Un has a hilariously terrible new haircut
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un just got an absolutely abysmal haircut, along with some ludicrously plucked eyebrows. He was pictured at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of...
View ArticleNorth Korea steps up threats against the US: 'Nuclear weapons are not a...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea ramped up its threatening language against the United States on Friday, days before the start of annual joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that often trigger an...
View ArticleNorth Korea conducted a missile test the same day a major US-South Korean...
On March 2 between 6:31 a.m. to 6:41 a.m. (local time in South Korea) North Korea fired two missiles into the East Sea from the western port city of Nampo.According to the South Korean ministry of...
View ArticleThe world's two most unpredictable regimes just declared a 'year of friendship'
Russia and North Korea have declared 2015 a "year of friendship."The Russian Foreign Ministry said on March 11 it agreed to start a program of cultural exchanges with the regime in Pyongyang aimed at...
View ArticleNorth Korea reportedly just test fired 7 surface-to-air missiles
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea test-fired seven surface-to-air missiles off its east coast on Thursday and its leader Kim Jong Un appeared to have been an observer, South Korea's military said on...
View ArticleThis $50 media player is opening up a new world for people in North Korea
A $50 portable media player is providing many North Koreans a window to the outside world despite the government's efforts to keep its people isolated - a symbol of change in one of the world's most...
View ArticleNorth Korea is undergoing some startling developments
The city of Chongjin, whose famine-era tragedy was so evocatively rendered in Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy, is today developing a rather different reputation. The city is still under the firm grip...
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