North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly handed out dozens of pistols engraved with name to several military commanders to commemorate the 67 years since the signing the Korean War armistice
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a meeting to discuss the country’s nuclear capabilities, state media said on Sunday, marking his first appearance in three weeks after a previous absence sparked global speculation about his health. Ruling Workers’ Party officials wore face masks to greet Kim as he entered the meeting […]
A South Korean official said reports speculating that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un — who was not seen for three weeks — had undergone a medical procedure are false.
North Korea's state news agency KCNA said on Saturday leader Kim Jong Un attended the completion of a fertilizer plant in a region north of the capital, Pyongyang, in the first report of his public activity since April 11.
(Reuters) – North Korea has never announced who would follow leader Kim Jong Un in the event he is incapacitated, and with no details known about his young children, analysts say his sister and loyalists could form a regency until a successor is old enough to take over. South Korean and Chinese officials have publicly […]
China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong Un was filmed riding through the snow on a white stallion last year, has spent tens of thousands of dollars on 12 purebred horses from Russia, according to Russian customs data.
South Korea's military fired warning shots toward a North Korean merchant boat with engine trouble that violated their sea border on Wednesday, South Korean officials said. The vessel was detected crossing the inter-Korean maritime frontier at around 6:40 a.m. Tuesday near a South Korean border island off the west coast.
(Reuters) – The family of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died after having been imprisoned in North Korea, blamed Kim Jong Un for their son’s death on Friday, reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that he accepted the leader’s claims to have been unaware of the case. “Kim and his evil regime are […]
Trump has left his summit with Kim Jong Un without a deal on North Korea's nuclear weapons.
UNITED NATIONS — A year after he derided North Korea’s dictator as “Rocket Man,” President Donald Trump expressed lavish praise for Kim Jong Un on Monday as the president prepared to use his second United Nations address to denounce what an aide called Iran’s “global torrent of destructive activity.” In New York for the annual […]
On the question of whether the U.S. military will hold large-scale exercises in South Korea next year, the answer is a definitive “maybe.”
U.S. troops may resume holding large-scale military exercises in South Korea, Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters on Tuesday. During a rare on-camera Pentagon news briefing alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, Mattis said the U.S. military does not expect to suspend any further military exercises on the Korean peninsula. […]
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is bringing along a letter from President Donald Trump and a compact disc with Elton John’s hit song “Rocket Man” to give to Kim Jong Un, according to a report in South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo. Citing “sources in Washington,” the paper said Trump signed the CD with a message for […]
It’s time we faced an honest, perhaps unpleasant truth: All presidents look silly when they salute. All. Presidents. Public domain Public domain So let’s not judge President Donald Trump too harshly for doing what apparently came naturally when a uniformed, covered North Korean officer saluted the U.S. president, as shown in the communist state-run media’s […]
The most thoughtful thing I’ve read recently about the Trump-Kim talks is by Arthur Waldron, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. His core point: “This meeting is not about nuclear disarmament or security guarantees, though they will form much of its substance while receiving disproportionate media and analytical attention. A more accurate appraisal is […]
The Pentagon is still trying to figure out what President Trump meant when he said on Tuesday that the United States would cancel its war games with South Korea. Task & Purpose roamed the halls of the five-sided funhouse all day, trying to get clarity on the president’s comments, but it only became apparent that […]
It’s almost 7 a.m. here on the west coast of the United States. As I and most of America slept, our president was on television praising a dictator, who currently has more than 200,000 of his own citizens locked up in Nazi-like prison camps, as a “very talented man” who “loves his people.” Admittedly, I […]
When President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un meet in Singapore on Tuesday, Kim is almost certain to press the United States to withdraw its troops from South Korea. But that is not an issue for North Korea to decide, said Defense Secretary James Mattis. “That would be a discussion between two democracies: […]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he will visit North Korea at a date and time to be determined to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, in what is sure to be a historic meeting of two of the world’s biggest super-villains. “I am going to visit the [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] and meet […]
President Donald Trump announced Friday that his much-hyped summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was back on for June 12th in Singapore. WATCH NEXT: UPDATE: This story was updated on June 1 with President Trump’s comments to reporters.
Only four days into the work week, the United States government has already managed to aggravate China, North Korea, and Iran, thus creating the potential for the biggest great-power melee since Bob Barker kicked Adam Sandler’s ass in Happy Gilmore. Let’s recap: North Korea on the outs On Thursday, President Donald Trump cancelled a much-ballyhooed […]
President Trump – who wrote in his memoir, “Know when to walk away from the table” – has cancelled a meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un over that country’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program. WATCH NEXT: UPDATE: This story was updated on May 24 with President Trump’s comments from the White House.
Let’s all just agree to one thing right now: Whatever our vision of the United States of America is, however we feel about its future and its role in the world, it should not look anything like Pete Hegseth. Let’s not be like the former Bear Stearns banker, Army veteran of Iraq, Fox News personality, […]
There’s trouble brewing for President Donald Trump’s historic, unprecedented, spur-of-the-moment summit with the grandson of a communist revolutionary who carved up the Korean peninsula, along with 37,000 or so American servicemembers, back in the day. Also, the White House made a challenge coin to commemorate the maybe-happening summit. Sorry, they didn’t design or produce it; […]
