North Korea Opens Doors to Tourists: Chinese New Year Celebrations in Pyongyang Sparks New Tourism Opportunities

North Korea Opens Doors to Tourists: Chinese New Year Celebrations in Pyongyang Sparks New Tourism Opportunities

AFP/KNCA via KNSChildren celebrate the Chinese New Year in Pyongyang NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 19:21 Sjoerd den Daas correspondent China Sjoerd den Daas correspondent China On a winter sports holiday in North Korea, a summer holiday on the North Korean beach? After four years of self-isolation, the most closed country in the world is once again opening … Read more

Kim Jong Un Threatens to Annihilate South Korea and Rejects Reconciliation in Speech

Kim Jong Un Threatens to Annihilate South Korea and Rejects Reconciliation in Speech

Jakarta – Leader of North Korea (North Korea) Kim Jong Un has repeatedly called South Korea its main enemy. In fact, Kim has no doubt that he will end South Korea if attacked. The statement was made while visiting large weapons factories, North Korean state media, the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Wednesday, … Read more

Russia Receives 1 Million Artillery Shells from North Korea, Ukraine Faces Ammunition Shortage

Russia Receives 1 Million Artillery Shells from North Korea, Ukraine Faces Ammunition Shortage

Jakarta – Ukraine is increasingly lacking ammunition to fight, while Russia continues to increase its ammunition production, aided by North Korea. In fact, Ukraine says Russia got one million artillery shells from North Korea at a time when Ukraine is having difficulty getting supplies from its ally. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself made the statement. … Read more

North Korea Fires Unidentified Cruise Missiles; Increased Tensions with Neighboring South Korea

North Korea Fires Unidentified Cruise Missiles; Increased Tensions with Neighboring South Korea

By Le Figaro with AFP Published 9 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago North Korean missile launch broadcast on South Korean television in Seoul. YONHAP / AFP Unlike ballistic missile tests, cruise missile tests are not banned under UN sanctions against Pyongyang. North Korea fired “several” cruise missiles Tuesday, January 30 in the waters off … Read more

China-North Korea Relations: Vice Minister’s Visit, Strategic Cooperation, and Tensions with Russia

China-North Korea Relations: Vice Minister’s Visit, Strategic Cooperation, and Tensions with Russia

As North Korea continues to deepen relations with Russia, Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong visited North Korea, and the two sides agreed to strengthen strategic cooperation and jointly safeguard core interests. Scholars interviewed believe that China’s trip is aimed at understanding North Korea’s recent changes in foreign policy orientation and trying to … Read more

Is North Korea’s Threat of War a Distraction from Military Cooperation with Russia and Iran?

Is North Korea’s Threat of War a Distraction from Military Cooperation with Russia and Iran?

Recently, there have been a series of claims from some circles in the U.S. warning of North Korea’s threat of war. The idea is that since North Korea’s threat is unusual this time, South Korea and the United States must bring North Korea to the dialogue table and make some concessions to their position on … Read more

Russia’s Use of North Korean Weapons in Ukraine Raises Alarms in the US and Ukraine

Russia’s Use of North Korean Weapons in Ukraine Raises Alarms in the US and Ukraine

At the start of the year, there were reports from both the US and Ukraine which confirmed that Russia had used North Korean weapons and ammunition in the war in Ukraine. – This is a significant and worrying escalation of North Korea’s support for Russia, said John Kirby in the US National Security Council when … Read more

North Korea Missile Supply to Russia: Impact on Ukraine Conflict

North Korea Missile Supply to Russia: Impact on Ukraine Conflict

Commenting on weapons production in Russia, Budanov said that the Russian Federation wastes more weapons and ammunition than it can produce, while at the same time struggling with quality control. “This is precisely what explains Russia’s search for weapons in other countries,” said the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate. According to Budanov, North Korea … Read more

New Axis of Evil: Russia, North Korea, and Iran Form, Shifting International Order

New Axis of Evil: Russia, North Korea, and Iran Form, Shifting International Order

A new axis of evil called “Russia, North Korea, and Iran” forms, and the international order changes completely. Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, attends the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea. He said that the goal of “unification of the North and South” should be abandoned and that South … Read more

North Korean Teenagers Sentenced to Forced Labor for Watching South Korean Media – BBC News

North Korean Teenagers Sentenced to Forced Labor for Watching South Korean Media – BBC News

“They were seduced by foreign culture…And ended up wasting their lives.” This is one of the sentences spoken by the voice-over which comments on the images of the trial of two North Korean teenagers. In what appears to be a stadium and in front of a hundred other young people, the two high school students, … Read more