SEOUL — China has maintained its lifeline with North Korea despite its fourth nuclear test. Analysts here question whether Beijing would ever use its leverage to press the defiant (more…)
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who kicked off 2016 with what he says was a hydrogen bomb test, has hinted at sweeping purges on the occasion of (more…)
North Korea’s strained relations with China were not improved after the abrupt cancellation of a concert in Beijing by a girls’ music band created by North Korea’s youthful leader (more…)
Jo Yong-Won has emerged to a key aide to North Korea’s youthful leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea’s officials and intelligence sources said. (FULL STORY) (more…)
SEOUL — Choe Ryong-Hae, once considered North Korea’s No. 2 man, is believed to have been sacked and sent to a cooperative farm for re-education only two months after (more…)
SEOUL — More and more North Korean elites dispatched for overseas missions are defecting to South Korea, as loyalty to youthful leader Kim Jong-Un erodes, intelligence sources here said. (more…)
Private financing has been spreading rapidly across North Korea where previously any money transactions without the involvement of state organs was not permitted. Now the communist regime has turned (more…)
North Korea not only spent $2 billion on its lavish 70th anniversary festivities for the Workers’ Party but also collected “loyalty donations” for the event, sources say. (FULL STORY) (more…)
By Dr. Jong-Heon Lee SEOUL — Cash-strapped North Korea has failed to secure foreign dignitaries to attend its biggest celebration in years, placing a damper on the isolated nation’s (more…)
