North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un watched from on observation post as a unit of the North’s special operations forces conducted a drill simulating an attack on South Korea’s presidential (more…)
President-elect Donald Trump may have to confront the North Korean problem early in his term, Obama administration officials say. U.S. President Barack Obama is said to have conveyed to (more…)
Beijing will not bail on the Kim Jong-Un regime because North Korea provides the Chinese Communist Party a critical “strategic buffer zone”, an analyst said on Nov. 17. U.S. (more…)
While reaffirming it will not give up its nuclear weapons program, North Korea hailed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s call for South Korea to pay more for the upkeep of (more…)
North Korea in September imported 18,477 tons of grains from China, a record for the Kim Jong-Un regime. According to an analysis by Kwon Tae-jin of South Korea’s GS (more…)
North Korean operatives have stepped up cyber attacks on defectors and human rights groups in South Korea. The hackers use complex techniques to steal personal information, videos and photos (more…)
Getting news from defectors into secretive North Korea is a difficult and usually expensive endeavor. But as news of a better life in the South begins to seep across (more…)
The United States is zeroing in on Chinese companies that violate sanctions by doing business with North Korea as the failure of past strategies to stop strategic advances in (more…)
The U.S. Treasury Department has confirmed it is “actively investigating” Chinese firms over dealings with North Korea that would violate U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang. The acknowledgment of the investigations (more…)
